In Buddhist literature the Sanskrit term cakra ( Pali cakka ) is used in a different sense of " circle ," referring to a Buddhist conception of the Cycle of Rebirth consisting of six states in which beings may be reborn.

Pali literature provides the scriptures and commentary for traditional Theravadin practice.

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

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

Post-canonical Pali literature identifies three different types of samādhi:

The Chinese words already introduced by his predecessors he did not alter, and in introducing new terms required in the translation of the Mahayana literature, the 大乘 Tasheng or greater development, he uses SH for SH and usually B for V. Thus the city Shravasti was in Pali Savatthi and in Chinese Sha-ba-ti.

Within the Pali tradition, there are also many apocryphal Jatakas of later composition ( some dated even to the 19th century ) but these are treated as a separate category of literature from the " Official " Jataka stories that have been more-or-less formally canonized from at least the 5th century — as attested to in ample epigraphic and archaeological evidence, such as extant illustrations in bas relief from ancient temple walls.

Later Pali literature has also used the phrase Middle Way to refer to the Buddha's teaching of dependent origination as a view between the extremes of eternalism and annihilationism.

Each chapter begins with an extract from a legendary version of the story, and extensive quotes, in English, from Indian literature such as the Sanskrit Vedas and the Pali Canon.

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The expression Three Gems are found in the earliest Buddhist literature of the Pali Canon, besides other works there is one sutta in the Sutta-nipata, called the Ratana-sutta which contains a series of verses on the Jewels in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.

Sinhala, along with Pali, played a major role in the development of Theravada Buddhist literature.

The Pali word Bahujan is popularly found in the literature of Buddhism.

Pali literature further endorses that only Kamboja and Gandhara of the sixteen ancient political powers belonged to the Uttarapatha or northern division of Jambudvipa but no precise boundaries for each have been explicitly specified.

The Pali literature has been divided by one scholar into roughly three periods.

See also Pali literature.

The Pali texts have an extensive commentarial literature much of which is still untranslated.

Later Pali literature however was mostly produced outside of the mainland Indian subcontinent, particularly in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia.

Pali literature includes Buddhist philosophical works, poetry and some grammatical works.

In Buddhist literature, the Greek ( Pali: Yona, lit: " Ionian ") Buddhist monk Mahadhammarakkhita () is said to have come from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus ), with 30, 000 monks for the foundation ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka:

Burmese literature has historically been a very important aspect of Burmese life steeped in the Pali Canon of Buddhism.

There he studied Pali literature and Buddhism, for a year.

In Pali literature, the 80 minor characteristics are found in the Apadāna and the Milindapañha.

" The Pali term has sometimes been translated as " wisdom-being ," although in modern publications, and especially in tantric works, this is more commonly reserved for the term jñānasattva (" awareness-being "; Tib.

As the son of Vishrava (" Fame "), Kubera is called Vaisravana ( in the Pali language, Vessavana ) and as the son of Ilavila, Ailavila.

In the same vein, the Pali suttas ( and parallel āgamas, both referred to collectively below as the nikāyas ), categorize the phenomena experienced by a being into five groups (" khandhas ") that serve as the objects of clinging and as the basis for a sense of self.

There are several cases of vocabulary doublets, e. g. the words mässā (" fly ") and mäkkā (" flea "), which both correspond to Sanskrit but stem from two regionally different Prakrit words macchiā and makkhikā ( as in Pali ).

Ānāpānasati ( Pali ; Sanskrit: ānāpānasmṛti ; Chinese: 安那般那 ; Pīnyīn: ānnàbānnà ), meaning ' mindfulness of breathing ' (" sati " means mindfulness ; " ānāpāna " refers to inhalation and exhalation ), is a form of Buddhist meditation now common to the Tibetan, Zen, Tiantai, and Theravada schools of Buddhism, as well as western-based mindfulness programs.

Finally, some of the emissaries of Ashoka, such as the famous Dharmaraksita, are described in Pali sources as leading Greek (" Yona ") Buddhist monks, active in Buddhist proselytism ( the Mahavamsa, XII ).

The Perfection of Wisdom in One Letter illustrates this approach by choosing to represent the perfection of prajñā with the Sanskrit / Pali short a vowel (" अ ", pronounced )— which, as a prefix, negates a word's meaning ( e. g., changing svabhava to asvabhava, " with essence " to " without essence "; cf.

The Greeks in India even seem to have played an active role in the propagation of Buddhism, as some of the emissaries of Ashoka, such as Dharmaraksita, are described in Pali sources as leading Greek (" Yona ") Buddhist monks, active in Buddhist proselytism ( the Mahavamsa, XII ).

( Pali ;,,,, ) is the name of a land mentioned in many ancient sources such as the Chronicle of Sri Lanka (" Mahavamsa "), some stories of the Jatakas, and Milinda Panha.

The Greeks in India even seem to have played an active role in the propagation of Buddhism, as some of the emissaries of Ashoka such as Dharmaraksita, or the teacher Mahadharmaraksita, are described in Pali sources as leading Greek (" Yona ") Buddhist monks, active in Buddhist proselytism ( the Mahavamsa, XII ).

Its name is derived from the Pali dhamma (" teachings of the Buddha ") + yutti ( in accordance with ) + ka ( group ).

In the Mahavamsa, a key Pali historical text, he is recorded as having travelled from “ Alasandra ” ( thought to be Alexandria of the Caucasus, around 150 kilometers north of today's Kabul, or possibly Alexandria of the Arachosians ), with 30, 000 monks for the dedication ceremony of the Maha Thupa (" Great stupa ") at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, when it was completed shortly after the death of the Sri Lankan king Dutthagamani Abhaya ( r. 161-137 BCE ).

The Indian-standard coins of Zoilos I also bear the Pali title " Dhramikasa " (" Follower of the Dharma "), probably related to Buddhism, appearing for the first time on Indo-Greek coinage.

Angulimala's father, the Brahmin chaplain to the king of Kosala, named him Ahimsaka (" the harmless one "-derived from the Sanskrit and Pali word Ahimsa ), as an attempt to deter the dark fate predicted at his birth ( Pad indicates that he was initially named Himsaka (" the harmful one "), but that the name was later changed ).

There he occasionally studied Pali scripture with Phra Pariyatidharrmadhātā (" Chang ", then Luang Śrīvaravohāra ), one of the four section chiefs in the Royal Pundits Department, who taught monks and novices at the monastery.

He also invited one of his former Pali teachers, Phra Pariyatidharrmadhātā (" Chang "), to come to the monastery to instruct him in Pali again.

One of his former Pali teachers, Phra Pariyatidharrmadhātā (" Chang ") was his teacher.

While including accounts from the Pali Vinaya Pitaka (" Basket of Discipline "), this literature also includes a large number of Sanskrit collections, of which the chief are the Mahāsaṅghika's Mahāvastu (" Great Book "), and the Sarvāstivāda's Avadanasataka ( Century of Legends ) and Divyavadana ( The Heavenly Legend ).