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  2. Ten realms - Wikipedia

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    [10] According to this conception, the world of Buddha and the nine realms of humanity are interpenetrable, [11] there is no original "pure mind," and good and evil are mutually possessed. [12] This establishes a proclivity to immanence rather than transcendency.

  3. Ten suchnesses - Wikipedia

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    The ten suchnesses, or categories, are what led the sixth century Chinese Buddhist philosopher Zhiyi to establish the doctrine of the "three thousand [worlds] in one thought." [ 4 ] The Tiantai school describes ten dharma realms (ch. shi fajie) of sentient beings: the realms of hell dwellers, hungry ghosts , beasts, asuras , humans, gods ...

  4. Kammapatha - Wikipedia

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    Kammapatha, in Buddhism, refers to the ten wholesome and unwholesome courses (or paths) of action [1] . Among the ten in the two sets, three are bodily, four are verbal, and three are mental. The ten courses of unwholesome kamma may be listed as follows, divided by way of their doors of expression:

  5. Ten principal disciples - Wikipedia

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    Rāhula is known in Buddhist texts for his eagerness for learning, [110] and was honored by novice monks and nuns throughout Buddhist history. [111] His accounts have led to a perspective in Buddhism of seeing children as hindrances to the spiritual life on the one hand, and as people with potential for enlightenment on the other hand. [112]

  6. Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    It is the world's fourth-largest religion, [8] [9] with over 520 million followers, known as Buddhists, who comprise seven percent of the global population. [10] [11] It arose in the eastern Gangetic plain as a śramaṇa movement in the 5th century BCE, and gradually spread

  7. The unanswerable questions - Wikipedia

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    The Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta, MN 63 [9] and 72 [10] contains a list of ten unanswered questions about certain views (ditthi): The world is eternal. The world is not eternal. The world is (spatially) infinite. The world is not (spatially) infinite. The being imbued with a life force is identical with the body.

  8. Outline of Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Dharmacakra, symbol of the Dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment. Buddhism (Pali and Sanskrit: बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, "the awakened one".

  9. Buddhist cosmology - Wikipedia

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    The lord of this world is called Sunirmita (Pāli: Sunimmita); his wife is the rebirth of Visākhā, formerly the chief of the upāsikās (female lay devotees) of the Buddha. The beings of this world are 3,750 feet (1,140 m) tall and live for 2,304,000,000 years (Sarvāstivāda tradition). The height of this world is 640 yojanas above the Earth.