Khmer has been considerably influenced by Sanskrit and Pali, especially in the royal and religious registers, through the vehicles of Hinduism and Buddhism.

* In Theravada Buddhism commentaries on the Pali Canon are known as atthakatha

The Pali language ( the liturgical Prakrit language of Theravada Buddhism ) tends to be treated as a special exception from the variants of the Ardhamagadhi language, as Classical Sanskrit grammars do not consider it as a Prakrit per se, presumably for sectarian rather than linguistic reasons.

Sangha ( Pali: सन ् घ ; Sanskrit: स ं घ ; Wylie: ' dus sde ) is a word in Pali and Sanskrit meaning " association ", " assembly ," " company " or " community " and most commonly refers in Buddhism to the monastic community of ordained Buddhist monks or nuns.

For example, Buddhism encourages the impartial investigation of nature ( an activity referred to as Dhamma-Vicaya in the Pali Canon )— the principal object of study being oneself.

Sinhala was influenced by many languages, prominently Pali, the sacred language of Southern Buddhism, and Sanskrit.

The Pali chronicles claim ( e. g., The Mahavansa ) that the Sinhalese as an ethnic group are destined to preserve and protect Buddhism.

In Buddhism, giving of alms is the beginning of one's journey to Nirvana ( Pali: nibbana ).

Liberation in Buddhism is achieved when the stock of accumulated sankharas buried in the unconscious have been dissolved through the practise of the Noble Eightfold Path, a path leading to the experience called enlightenment ( Bodhi in Sanskrit and Pali ).

Bodhi ( Sanskrit: ब ो ध ि; and Pali ) in Buddhism is the understanding possessed by a Buddha regarding the nature of things.

Pali literature has an important position in the rise of Buddhism.

Sentience in Buddhism is the state of having senses ( sat + ta in Pali, or sat + tva in Sanskrit ).

In Buddhism, buddhahood ( ; or ) is the state of perfect enlightenment ( ; ) attained by a buddha ( or ; ; Pali / Sanskrit for " awakened one ").

In Buddhism, especially in the Pali Canon, there are 8 states of trance also called absorption.

The idea of moral causality, karma ( Pali: kamma ), is central in Buddhism.

* Eitel, Ernst J. Hand-Book of Chinese Buddhism, being a Sanskrit-Chinese Dictionary with Vocabularies of Buddhist Terms in Pali, Singhalese, Siamese, Burmese, Tibetan, Mongolian and Japanese ( Second Edition ).

Earliest evidence of Buddhism in Myanmar ( Pali inscriptions ).

In Theravada Buddhism, the Jatakas are a textual division of the Pali Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka.

In the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism, the expression Middle Way is used by the Buddha in his first discourse ( the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta ) to describe the Noble Eightfold Path as a path between the extremes of austerities and sensual indulgence.

These āgamas comprise the only other complete surviving Sūtra Piṭaka, which is generally comparable to the Pali Sutta Pitaka of Theravada Buddhism.

The original version of the Dhammapada is in the Khuddaka Nikaya, a division of the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.

Evola based his interpretation of Buddhism on the original Pali Canon, rejected western interpretations of Buddhism as a humanitarian religion of compassion for all beings, held reincarnation as a false tenet not found in the original Pali Canon and saw the Mahayana tradition as heterodox along with certain aspects of Theravada.

* Anatta / Anatman – Buddhism

This process continued in Manichaeism's meeting with Chinese Buddhism, where, for example, the original Aramaic karia ( the " call " from the world of Light to those seeking rescue from the world of Darkness ), becomes identified in the Chinese scriptures with Guan Yin ( or Avalokitesvara in Sanskrit, literally, " watching / perceiving sounds the world ", the Chinese Bodhisattva of Compassion ).

As with Hinduism and Buddhism before it, the new religion and its accompanying foreign influences were absorbed and reinterpreted, with mosques given a unique Indonesian / Javanese interpretation.

These characteristics are chanted either on a daily basis and / or on Uposatha days, depending on the school of Buddhism.

In Confucianism and religious forms of Taoism these are often explicitly moral / ethical arguments about proper behavior, while Buddhism and more philosophical forms of Taoism usually refer to the natural and mercurial outcomes of action ( comparable to karma ).

In 1980, they lived in Japan for a year and a half on a Japan / U. S. cultural exchange fellowship where they studied Buddhism with Zen Master Daien Tanaka.

In Buddhism, the historical Buddha, the celestial and predecessor Buddhas, and the Buddhas to Be's ( Bodhisattvas ) fulfill the devotional needs of believers, while an emphasis is placed on the lack of Creation and Judgement abilities of these Salvation / Teaching deities.

Naga ( Sanskrit :) is the Sanskrit / Pāli word for a deity or class of entity or being, taking the form of a very large snake, found in Hinduism and Buddhism.

* Skanda ( Buddhism ), a popular Deva and / or Bodhisattva popular in Chinese Buddhism

Pure Land Buddhism seems to have first become popular in northwest India / Pakistan and Afghanistan, from where it spread to Central Asia and China.

* Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism ", Seiganzan Myoshinji Temple, 2007 for download and online at http :// www. nichirenshoshumyoshinji. org / Introduction / Introduction. htm

* Stuart Lachs, Means of Authorization: Establishing Hierarchy in Ch ' an / Zen Buddhism in America ( 1999 )

As for Nichiren Shu school of Buddhism, the treasure of the “ Community of Believers ” is referred to as the treasure of “ Samgha / Temple ”.

In Traditional Buddhism the Master-Disciple relationship is that of a priest / monk / teacher as the Master, and an aspirant / student as the Disciple or a spiritual friendship between two individuals.

Arguably, Gelug is the only school of vajrayāna Buddhism that prescribes monastic ordination as a necessary qualification and basis in its teachers ( lamas / gurus ).

* Buddhism and Quantum Physics. http :// www. scribd. com / doc / 70440652 / Budismo-y-Fisica-Cuantica

Anattā, dukkha ( suffering / unease ), and anicca ( impermanence ), are the three dharma seals, which, according to Buddhism, characterise all conditioned phenomena.

Wheat gluten, called miàn jīn in Chinese ( traditional:, simplified:, literally " noodle / dough tendon "; also spelled mien chin or mien ching ) is believed to have originated in ancient China, as a meat substitute for adherents of Buddhism, particularly some Mahayana Buddhist monks, who are strict vegetarians ( see Buddhist cuisine ).

In Buddhism, a bodhisattva ( bodhisattva ; bodhisatta ) is either an enlightened ( bodhi ) existence ( sattva ) or an enlightenment-being or, given the variant Sanskrit spelling satva rather than sattva, " heroic-minded one ( satva ) for enlightenment ( bodhi ).

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

Sanskrit (, originally, " refined speech "), is a historical Indo-Aryan language, the primary liturgical language of Hinduism and a literary and scholarly language in Jainism and Buddhism.

Through Hariphunchai, the Tais of Chiang Saen adopted Theravada Buddhism and Sanskrit royal names.

However, the differences between the Sanskrit and Chinese terminology lead to some initial misunderstandings and the eventual development of East Asian Buddhism as a distinct entity.

In several Sanskrit texts of Mahayana Buddhism, Buddha instructs his followers to avoid meat.

During the Tang dynasty, a fair amount of translations from Sanskrit into Chinese were done by Chinese priests, and Buddhism became one of the major religions of the Chinese along with the other two indigenous religions.

* Religious Thai: ( heavily influenced by Sanskrit and Pāli ) used when discussing Buddhism or addressing monks.

The Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra ( Sanskrit: ल ं क ा वत ा रस ू त ् र ; ) is a sutra of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

The Vajrayana is based on the concept of " skilful means " ( Sanskrit: upaya ) as formulated in Mahayana Buddhism.

The ' skillful means ' of the Vajrayana in Tibetan Buddhism refers to tantra techniques, Dzogchen ( Tibetan ; Sanskrit: maha-ati ) and Mahamudra ( Tibetan: Chagchen ).

This is the only form of Vajrayana Buddhism in which the scriptures are written in Sanskrit.

Shingon is one of the few remaining branches of Buddhism in the world that continues to use the siddham script of the Sanskrit language.

Śīla ( Sanskrit ) or sīla ( Pāli ) in Buddhism is one of three sections of the Noble Eightfold Path, and is a code of conduct that embraces a commitment to harmony and self-restraint with the principle motivation being non-violence, or freedom from causing harm.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, the Sanskrit lexical item svāhā ( Romanized Sanskrit transcription ; Devanagari: स ् व ा ह ा, chi.