The doctrine of the Three Treasures of Buddhism ( the Buddha, the Dharma and the Samgha ) has different interpretations in various schools, and a particular difference relates to the Treasure of the Samgha.

This text relates the introduction of Buddhism to China around 70 CE:

In ancient Japan, the arrival of Buddhism closely relates the national construction and the national centralization of power.

In the context of larger ethical discussions on moral action and judgment, Buddhism is characterized by the belief that negative ( unhappy ) consequences of our actions derive not from punishment or correction based on moral judgment, but from the law of karma, which functions like a natural law of cause and effect.

In Buddhism, karma ( Pāli kamma ) is strictly distinguished from vipāka, meaning " fruit " or " result ".

In Buddhism, karma is not the only cause of all that happens.

This view of karma is in contradiction to Buddhism, Jainism and other Indian religions that do view karma as a law of cause and effect.

Other faiths are even more subtle: the doctrine of karma shared by Buddhism and Hinduism is a divine law similar to divine retribution but without the connotation of punishment: our acts, good or bad, intentional or unintentional, reflect back on us as part of the natural working of the universe.

The consciousness-only approach of the Yogācāra school of Mahayana Buddhism is not true metaphysical idealism as Yogācāra thinkers did not focus on consciousness to assert it as ultimately real, it is only conventionally real since it arises from moment to moment due to fluctuating causes and conditions and is significant because it is the cause of karma and hence suffering.

A concept of karma ( along with samsara and moksha ) may originate in the shramana tradition of which Buddhism and Jainism are continuations.

In general, followers of Buddhism and many followers of Hinduism consider the natural laws of causation sufficient to explain the effects of karma.

In Buddhism, karma ( Pāli kamma ) is strictly distinguished from vipāka, meaning " fruit " or " result ".

Falun Gong differs from Buddhism in its definition of the term " karma ," Ownby says, in that it is taken not as a process of award and punishment, but as an exclusively negative term.

The Chinese term " de " or " virtue " is reserved for what might otherwise be termed " good karma " in 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 ).

Ryder has stated " I still practice Buddhism to a certain extent and I believe in karma.

Nonetheless, most philosophic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism maintain that plants and even more obviously rocks cannot be included in samsāra since they lack the possibility of experience ( bhoga ) and, hence, of karma.

Therefore, it can be understood as the relational-as opposed to the physical-aspect of karma in Buddhism.

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

Hence Buddhism offers salvation to every-one, not only to monks or those who have freed themselves almost completely from karma in previous lives.

Buddhism recognizes that feelings of hatred and ill-will leave a lasting effect on our mind karma.

The karma sections of the fundamental meditation texts of all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism also list these acts as basic guidelines for lay or ordained practitioners intent on observing the law of cause and effect.

The conditioning of the mind resulting from karma is called saṃskāra .< ref > Buddhist Phenomenology: A philosophical Investigation of Yogācāra Buddhism and the Ch ' eng Wei-shih lun by Dan Lusthaus.

The concept of pratītyasamutpāda ( in both the general and specific meanings ) is the basis for other key concepts in Buddhism, such as karma and rebirth, the arising of dukkha ( suffering ), and the possibility of liberation through realizing no-self ( anatman ).

Buddhism shares many philosophical views with other Indian systems, such as belief in karma, a cause-and-effect relationship between all that has been done and all that will be done.

The party adopted a particularly conservative interpretation of Buddhism, common in the Theravada countries of Southeast Asia, that the social and economic inequalities among people were legitimate because of the workings of karma.

Seong of Baekje, known as a great patron of Buddhism in Korea, built many temples and welcomed priests bringing Buddhist texts directly from India.

Vajrayana Buddhism is esoteric, in the sense that the transmission of certain teachings only occurs directly from teacher to student during an initiation or empowerment and cannot be simply learned from a book.

There was an early period of aniconism in Buddhism, when the Buddha himself was not represented directly.

One proposition, countered by most Himalayan scholars, is that Buddhism may have arrived in Tibet by a path other than directly from northwest India.

Observation of the dances directly blesses the audience and also serves to transmit principles of Tantric Buddhism to the villagers.

That the scriptural tradition of Yogācāra is not yet well-known among the community of western practitioners is perhaps attributable to the fact that most of the initial transmission of Buddhism to the west has been directly concerned with meditation and basic doctrines.

The first was the Kami and Buddhas Separation Act of 1868, which formally separated Buddhism from Shinto and Buddhist temples from Shinto shrines, breaking an association between the two which had lasted well over a thousand years and causing, directly and indirectly, immense damage to the nation's architecture.

Seong was known as a great patron of Buddhism in Korea, and built many temples and welcomed priests bringing Buddhist texts directly from India.

The music and choreography of the cham dance are heavily associated with Tibetan Buddhism, however some common features derive directly fron the Bön religion.

To more directly give Buddhism filial nature, passages and parables that were of minor importance in Indian and Central Asian Buddhism became very prominent in Chinese Buddhism.

the " Three Baskets "), which are the texts of reference of traditional Buddhism and considered to be directly transmitted from the Buddha, was formalized at that time.

Denys's way of life does not appear to have directly followed a specific form of Buddhism.

The kīla as an iconographical implement is also directly related to Vajrakilaya, a wrathful deity of Tibetan Buddhism who is often seen with his consort Diptacakra ( Tib.

The spiritual, philosophical aspects of the tradition permeate the Suiō-ryū's techniques, and the core waza, or techniques, are directly linked to Mima's teachings based on Ryōbu Shintō, a system of interpreting Shintō deities into Mikkyō Buddhism.

Buddhism was spread to China by Mahayanist missionaries sent by Emperor Ashoka mostly through translations of Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit and Classical Sanskrit texts, and many terms were transliterated directly and added to the Chinese vocabulary.