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Theravāda (/ˌtɛrəˈvɑːðə/; lit. 'School of the Elders') is the most
commonly accepted name of the
oldest existing vehicle (yana) of Buddhism, the other...
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generally recognized by scholars:
Theravāda (lit. 'School of the Elders') and Mahāyāna (lit. 'Great Vehicle'). The
Theravada tradition emphasizes the attainment...
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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...
- The
Theravada Abhidhamma tradition refers to a
scholastic systematization of the
Theravāda school's
understanding of the
highest Buddhist teachings (Abhidhamma)...
- In
modern Theravāda, the
relation between samatha and vip****anā is a
matter of dispute. Meditation-practice was
reinvented in the
Theravāda tradition...
- 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...
- The
history of
Theravāda Buddhism begins in
ancient India,
where it was one of the
early Buddhist schools which arose after the
first schism of the Buddhist...
- 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...
