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- Theravāda (/ˌtɛrəˈvɑːðə/; lit. 'School of the Elders') is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school's adherents...
- generally recognized by scholars: Theravāda (lit. 'School of the Elders') and Mahāyāna (lit. 'Great Vehicle'). The Theravada tradition emphasizes the attainment...
- extent in most of Western academia, Buddhism is separated into two groups: Theravāda (lit. 'the Teaching of the Elders' or 'the Ancient Teaching'), and Mahāyāna...
- ('awakening') or Buddhahood. In the Early Buddhist schools, as well as modern Theravāda Buddhism, bodhisattva (or bodhisatta) refers to someone who has made a...
- In the later commentarial tradition, which has survived in present-day Theravāda, dhyāna is equated with "concentration", a state of one-pointed absorption...
- This term appeared around the first or second century. The Hīnayāna (or Theravada) is considered as the preliminary or small (hina) vehicle (yana) of the...
- Saṅgha Theravāda Indonesia (Indonesian Theravāda Saṅgha) is a monastic organization of Theravāda Buddhism in Indonesia that was formed on October 23,...
- In modern Theravāda, the relation between samatha and vip****anā is a matter of dispute. Meditation-practice was reinvented in the Theravāda tradition...
- arhats, or at least the senior arhats, came to be widely regarded by Theravada buddhists as "moving beyond the state of personal freedom to join the...
- The Theravada Abhidhamma tradition refers to a scholastic systematization of the Theravāda school's understanding of the highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma)...