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Buddhist philosophy

  • Tathāgatagarbha sūtrasThe Sanskrit term tathāgatagarbha splits into two distinct roots that define the entire doctrine. The first root, tathāgata, refers to "the one thus gone"…
  • Buddhism and psychologyIn 1900, Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids published a translation of the Dhamma Sangani through the Pali Text Society. She titled this work "Buddhist Manual of…
  • Buddhist philosophyThe Buddhist Nalanda mahāvihāra (great monastery) was a major institution of higher-learning in ancient India from the 5th century CE until the 12th century.
  • Buddhist cosmologyA Buddhist mandala from ancient India depicts Mount Meru standing at the center of a terrestrial universe. This immense mountain rises 80,000 yojanas above…
  • YogacharaIn the first centuries of the common era, a group of yogis from the Sarvastivada and Sautrantika traditions in north India began to adopt Mahayana Buddhism.