Non-violence is an over-riding concern of the Pali Canon.

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

According to the Pali Canon, both pluralism ( naanatta ) and monism ( ekatta ) are speculative views.

The Pali Canon contains the earliest written detailed discussion of nirvana and the concept has thus become most associated with the teaching of the historical Buddha.

The Ekottara Āgama in particular contains variant teachings of basic doctrines such as the Noble Eightfold Path, which are different from those found in the Pali Canon.

In ancient India, the antecedents of politics can be traced back to the Rig-Veda, Samhitas, Brahmanas, the Mahabharata and Buddhist Pali Canon.

In the Pali Canon, the following typifies elaborations that frequently accompany these identified training rules:

In the Pali Canon, the Buddha describes the Five Precepts as gifts toward oneself and others:

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

In Pali Canon the Buddha rejected a suggestion by Devadatta to impose vegetarianism on the Sangha.

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.

This matches the Rigvedic description of the Sarasvati flowing to the samudra, which at that time meant ' confluence ', ' lake ', ' heavenly lake, ocean '; the current meaning of ' terrestrial ocean ' was not even felt in the Pali Canon.

The literature of Vajrayana is absent from the oldest Buddhist literature of the Pali Canon and the Agamas.

In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is claimed that the historical Shakyamuni Buddha taught tantra, but that since these are ' secret ' teachings, confined to the guru / disciple relationship, they were generally written down long after the Buddha's other teachings, the Pali Canon and the Mahayana sutras.

For example, the tantra sections of the Tibetan Buddhist canon of texts sometimes include material not usually thought of as tantric outside the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, such as the Heart Sutra and even versions of some material found in the Pali Canon.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

Despite their early prohibition, recorded in the Pali Canon, these practices ( known as the Dhutanga practices or in Thai as thudong ) eventually became acceptable to the monastic community.

In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon.

The Alavaka Sutta ( SN 10. 12 ) of the Pali Canon details a story where the Buddha was harassed by a Rakshasa, who asked him to leave and then come back over and over.

The Pali Canon refers to many previous ones ( see List of the 28 Buddhas ), while the Mahayana tradition additionally has many Buddhas of celestial, rather than historical, origin ( see Amitabha or Vairocana as examples, for lists of many thousands Buddha names see Taishō Shinshū Daizōkyō numbers 439 – 448 ).

These characteristics are frequently mentioned in the Pali Canon as well as Mahayana teachings, and are chanted daily in many Buddhist monasteries:

Although the Theravada school does not emphasize the more supernatural and divine aspects of the Buddha that are available in the Pali Canon, elements of Buddha as the supreme person are found throughout this canon.

In the Pali Canon Gautama Buddha is known as being a " teacher of the gods and humans ", superior to both the gods and humans in the sense of having nirvana or the greatest bliss, whereas the devas or gods of are still subject to anger, fear and sorrow.

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

* Khuddaka Nikaya, the fifth nikaya ( collection ) of the Sutta Pitaka division of the Buddhist Pali Canon

Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha ( Sanskrit: स ि द ् ध ा र ् थ ग ौ तम ब ु द ् ध ; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama ) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent,

The most well-known example is Angulimala in the Theravadan Pali canon who had killed 999 people and then attempted to kill his own mother and the Buddha, but under the influence of the Buddha he repented and entered the monkhood.

For practicing Buddhists, references to " dharma " ( dhamma in Pali ) particularly as " the Dharma ", generally means the teachings of the Buddha, commonly known throughout the East as Buddha-Dharma.

Faith ( Pali: Saddhā, Sanskrit: Śraddhā ) is an important constituent element of the teachings of Gautama Buddha — in both the Theravada and the Mahayana traditions.

The teachings of Buddha were originally recorded in the language Pali and the word saddhā is generally translated as " faith ".

The Buddhists have always maintained that during the time of Buddha and Mahavira ( who, according to the Pali canon, were contemporaries ), Jainism was already an ancient, deeply entrenched faith and culture there.

This ultimate state is described by the Buddha as " deathlessness " ( Pali: amata or amāravati ).

According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the Āgamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment.

The Five Precepts ( Pali: pañca-sīlāni ; ) constitute the basic Buddhist code of ethics, undertaken by lay followers ( Upāsaka and Upāsikā ) of the Buddha Gautama in the Theravada as well as in Mahayana traditions.

According to the Pali Texts, the Buddha ate meat long as the animal was not killed specifically for Him.

The Buddha the Pali Texts allowed Sangha members to eat whatever food is donated to them by laypeople, except that they may not eat meat if they know or suspect the animal was killed specifically for them.

* Sutta ( Pali ; Sanskrit: sūtra ) refers to a " discourse " in the Pali canon attributed to the Buddha or one of his disciples.

" During the time of Gautama Buddha the city was called Ayojjhā in Pali and Ayodhyā in Sanskrit, though this city was said to be on the River Ganges ( Pheṇāpiṇḍūpama Sutta-SN 22. 95 ).

This would lead to faith ( Pali: saddha ), one key power ( Pali: bala ) that one should generate within oneself for the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha.

The Sanskrit and Pali word sīla is an ethical compass within self and relationships, rather than what is associated with the English word " morality " ( i. e., obedience, a sense of obligation, and external constraint-all of which are quite foreign to the concept of sīla as taught by Gautama the Buddha ).

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