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Buddhism (/ ˈ b ʊ d ɪ z əm / BUUD-ih-zəm, US also / ˈ b uː d-/ BOOD-), [1] [2] [3] also known as Buddha Dharma, is an Indian religion [a] and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE. [7]
Zhiyi of the Tiantai school categorized the Buddha's teachings in the Mohe Zhiguan (摩訶止觀) and Fahua Xuanyi (法華玄義). These are classed under what are now known as the Five Periods and Eight Teachings (五時八教). The Five Periods are as follows: Flower Ornament Period (華嚴時)
A Buddha must master numerous arts and skills in his youth. A Buddha must live in the palace and enjoy his life with his wife. A Buddha must make a great departure from his palace and become a renunciant . A Buddha must practice asceticism. A Buddha must sit under a buddha tree (like the bodhi tree) on a bodhimanda (place of awakening)
The Buddha himself is depicted as having developed the ability to recollect his past lives as well as to access the past life memories of other conscious beings in texts like the Bhayabherava Sutta (MN 4, the parallel Agama text is at Ekottara Agama 31.1) and the Mahapadana Sutta (DN 14, parallel at DA 1).
The Buddha and His Dhamma, is a 1957 treatise on Buddha's life and philosophy. It was the last work of Indian statesman and scholar B. R. Ambedkar . According to Queen (2015), [ 2 ] the text is treated as scripture for those who follow Navayana Buddhism.
Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, is also venerated as a manifestation of God in Hinduism and the Baháʼí Faith. [1] Some Hindu texts regard Buddha as an avatar of the god Vishnu, who came to Earth to delude beings away from the Vedic religion. [2] Some Non-denominational and Quranist Muslims believe he was a prophet.
In Buddhism, an āgama (आगम Sanskrit and Pāli, Tibetan ལུང་ (Wylie: lung) for "sacred work" [1] or "scripture" [2]) is a collection of early Buddhist texts.. The five āgama together comprise the Suttapiṭaka of the early Buddhist schools, which had different recensions of each āgama.
The Buddha's Dispensation (Pali: Buddha-sāsana) is the teaching - and dissemination of that teaching - of the historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. In Theravada Buddhism , the teaching is considered to reside within the Pali Canon and the existing practical traditions that remain faithful to that dispensation.