Some regard it as an ultimate truth, or as the fount of all things which lies beyond the " three realms " ( Sanskrit: tridhatu ) and the " wheel of becoming " ( Sanskrit: bhavacakra ), somewhat like the pagan Greek and Christian logos: this is known as Dharmakaya ( Sanskrit ).

The bhavacakra is painted on the outside walls of nearly every Tibetan Buddhist temple in Tibet and India.

A traditional Tibetan thangka showing the bhavacakra.

Image: Tibetan chakra. jpg | A painting of the bhavacakra in Sera Monastery, Tibet.

Image: Wheel of Existence. jpg | A traditional Tibetan thangka showing the bhavacakra.

The bhavacakra is popularly referred to as the wheel of life.

Image: Bhavacakra001. png | An abstract representation of the bhavacakra.

Waldron ( 2003: p. 178 ) renders Vasubandhu's Yogacara account from the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya of cyclic causality ( bhavacakra ), kleśa and karma in relation to the mindstream:

Legend has it that the Buddha himself created the first depiction of the bhavacakra, and the story of how he gave the illustration to King Rudrāyaṇa appears in the anthology of Buddhist narratives called the Divyavadana.

These three animals represent the three poisons, which are the core of the bhavacakra.

A painting of the bhavacakra in Thikse Monastery, Ladak.

Image: Bhavacakra Thikse. jpg | A painting of the bhavacakra in Thikse Monastery, Ladak.

Image: The wheel of life, Trongsa dzong. jpg | A painting of the bhavacakra from Bhutan.

Image: Bhavachakra. jpg | A painting of the bhavacakra.

Image: Bhavacakra. jpg | A painting of the bhavacakra that depicts an emanation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in each realm.

Linguistics began with the analysis of Sanskrit and Tamil ; today it looks at individual languages and language in general.

The two words may be derived from the same Indo-European form * ṇ-mṛ-to-: immortal ( n-: negative prefix equivalent to the prefix a-in both Greek and Sanskrit ; mṛ: zero grade of * mer-: to die ; and-to-: adjectival suffix ).

The word is derived from the Sanskrit root hims – to strike ; himsa is injury or harm, a-himsa is the opposite of this, i. e. non harming or nonviolence.

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,

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 Huayan developed the doctrine of " interpenetration " or " coalescence " ( Wylie: zung -' jug ; Sanskrit: yuganaddha ), based on the Avataṃsaka Sūtra, a Mahāyāna scripture.

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

Dukkha ( Pāli ; Sanskrit: ; Tibetan phonetic: dukngal ) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as " suffering ", " stress ", " anxiety ", or " dissatisfaction ".

Oxford scholar Noa Ronkin discusses the relation between the skandhas ( Sanskrit ; Pali: khandhas ) and dukkha:

This has led to such a close connection between Devanāgarī and Sanskrit that Devanāgarī is now widely thought to be the Sanskrit script ; however, before the colonial period there was no standard script for Sanskrit, which was written in whatever script was familiar to the local populace.

The word " Emerald " is derived ( via Old French: Esmeraude and Middle English: Emeraude ), from Vulgar Latin: Esmaralda / Esmaraldus, a variant of Latin Smaragdus, which originated in Greek: σμάραγδος ( smaragdos ; " green gem "); its original source being either the Sanskrit word मरकत marakata meaning " emerald " or the Semitic word baraq ( ב ָּ ר ָ ק ; الب ُ راق ; " lightning " or " shine ") ( cf.

It is the same source for the names Persian ( زمر ّ د zomorrod ), Turkish ( zümrüt ), Sanskrit ( मरकत ; marakata ), Kannada ( ಪಚ ್ ಚ ೆ ; Pacche ), Telugu ( Paccha ), Georgian ( ზურმუხტი ; zurmukhti ), Russian ( изумруд ; izumrud ) and Armenian zmruxt.

In the Sanskrit oral tradition, there was much emphasis on how long ( L ) syllables mix with the short ( S ), and counting the different patterns of L and S within a given fixed length results in the Fibonacci numbers ; the number of patterns that are m short syllables long is the Fibonacci number F < sub > m + 1 </ sub >.

The Four Noble Truths ( Sanskrit: catvāri āryasatyāni ; Pali: cattāri ariyasaccāni ) are one of the central teachings of the Buddhist tradition.

* Ignorance ( Sanskrit: avidya or moha ): misunderstanding of the nature of reality ; bewilderment.

Cessation is often equated with nirvana ( Sanskrit ; Pali nibbana ), which can be described as the state of being in cessation or the event or process of the cessation.

The word ' Ānanda ' means ' bliss ' in Pali, Sanskrit as well as other Indian languages.

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

( The Pali / Sanskrit term for monks and nuns means " one who seeks alms ".

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.

Zvelebil in his earlier treatise ( Zvelebil 1975: p53 ) states, " It is obvious that the Sanskrit, Pali damila, and Prakrit are all etymologically connected with " and further remarks " The r in > is a hypercorrect insertion, cf.

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 Pali terms ariya sacca ( Sanskrit: arya satya ) are commonly translated as " noble truths ".

The Pali term dukkha ( Sanskrit: duhkha ) is typically translated as " suffering ", but the term dukkha has a much broader meaning than the typical use of the word " suffering ".

The term " noble truths " is a common translation of the Pali terms ariya sacca ( Sanskrit: arya satya ).

The Pali term sacca ( Sanskrit: satya ) means " truth " and " real " or " actual thing.

200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.

A soul is called a ' victor ' ( in Sanskrit / Pali language, Jina ) because one has achieved liberation by one's own efforts.

A bhikkhu ( the term in the Pali language ) or Bhikshu ( in Sanskrit ), first ordains as a Samanera ( novice ).

* Latin transliteration of Pali and Sanskrit.

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.

Some scholars restrict the use of the term " Prakrit " to the languages used by Hindu and Jain writers only ; others include the Buddhist languages, such as Pali and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, and the inscriptional Prakrits.

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.