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While the language is not identical to what Buddha himself would have spoken, it belongs to the same broad language family as those he might have used and originates from the same conceptual matrix. This language thus reflects the thought-world that the Buddha inherited from the wider Indian culture into which he was born, so that its words ...
Prior to Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit teachings used to be generally recorded in the Pali language. Pali language was common at the time of the Buddha. [2] His teachings were apparently first found in Pali language written by Theravada buddhists. [3] Buddhist hybrid Sanskrit became the pre-eminent language for literature and philosophy in India.
The Buddha-range of the Buddhas [i.e., the range of powers a Buddha develops as a result of becoming a Buddha]; The jhana-range of one absorbed in jhana [i.e., the range of powers that one may obtain while absorbed in jhana]; The [precise working out of the] results of kamma (Karma in Sanskrit);
In Buddhism, conceptual proliferation (Pāli: papañca; Sanskrit: prapañca; simplified Chinese: 戏论; traditional Chinese: 戲論; pinyin: xìlùn; Japanese: 戯論) or, alternatively, mental proliferation or conceptual elaboration, refers to conceptualization of the world through language and concepts which can then be a cause for suffering to arise. [1]
Major events from the Buddha's life from the EBTs are mentioned such as his awakening, the first teaching and his death. [33] According to Lüders “… the visit of Ajātasattu [to the Buddha] is depicted even in details exactly according to the Sāmaññaphala Sutta ,” and “… the representation of the visit of Sakka follows the text of ...
A mantra (Pali: mantra) or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) [1] is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) believed by practitioners to have religious, magical or spiritual powers.
However, the phrase "twilight language" continues to be used by many Western writers. For example, according to Judith Simmer-Brown : As has often been said, tantric texts are written in "twilight language" ( sandha-bhasa , gongpay-kay ), which, as the Hevajra tantra states, is a "secret language, that great convention of the yoginis , which ...
The language used by this approach is primarily negative, and the Tathagatagarbha genre of sutras can be seen as an attempt to state orthodox Buddhist teachings of dependent origination using positive language instead, to prevent people from being turned away from Buddhism by a false impression of nihilism. In these sutras the perfection of the ...