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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.
Buddhist karma and karmic reincarnation are feared to potentially lead to fatalism and victim blaming. Paul Edwards says that karma does not provide a guide to action. Whitley Kaufman, in his 2014 book, cross-examines that there is a taut relationship between karma and free will and that if karma existed, then evil would not exist because all victims of evil just get "deserved". [1]
Śāsana (Sanskrit: शासन, śāsana; Pali: sāsana) is a Buddhist term for the distribution time or availability of the teachings of a Buddha.The currently available philosophy and practice are dated back to Siddhartha Gautama and are only available for a limited time span. [1]
The Sanskrit word acintya means "incomprehensible, surpassing thought, unthinkable, beyond thought." [web 1] In Indian philosophy, acinteyya is [T]hat which is to be unavoidably accepted for explaining facts, but which cannot stand the scrutiny of logic.
The Three Ages of Buddhism are three divisions of time following Buddha's passing: [1] [2] Former Day of the Dharma — also known as the "Age of the Right Dharma" (Chinese: 正法; pinyin: Zhèng Fǎ; Japanese: shōbō), the first thousand years (or 500 years) during which the Buddha's disciples are able to uphold the Buddha's teachings; [3]
The Buddhist doctrine of the two truths (Sanskrit: dvasatya, Wylie: bden pa gnyis) differentiates between two levels of satya (Sanskrit; Pali: sacca; word meaning "truth" or "reality") in the teaching of the Śākyamuni Buddha: the "conventional" or "provisional" (saṁvṛti) truth, and the "ultimate" (paramārtha) truth.
The Navayana, a modernistic interpretation of Buddhism by the Indian leader and Buddhist scholar B. R. Ambedkar, [236] rejected much of traditional Buddhism, including the Four Noble Truths, karma and rebirth, thus turning his new religion into a vehicle for class struggle and social action. [237]
Other topics discussed in the sutra include Buddhist vegetarianism, the theory of icchantikas, the wrong views of non-buddhists (tirthikas, especially Samkhya), a critique of the sravakayana, the limited nature of language in describing the ultimate truth, the One Vehicle, the bodhisattva path, and the three bodies of the Buddha doctrine.