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   Buddhism

   By analyzing the constantly changing physical and mental constituents ("skandhas") of a person (or object), the practitioner comes to the conlusion, that neither the respective parts, nor the person as a whole comprise a self. ... According to Theravada Buddhism the Buddha taught two types of meditation, samatha meditation (Sanskrit: śamatha) and vipassanā meditation (Sanskrit: vipaśyanā).
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   Buddhism Article, 4 Sept. 2008

   Mahayana Buddhism generally regards as its most important teaching the path of the bodhisattva. ... Types of Buddha · Bodhisattva · Four stages of enlightenment: (Stream-enterer, Once-returner, Non-returner, Arahant)
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   Buddhism and Hinduism

   They are primarily used as spiritual conduits, words or vibrations that instill one-pointed concentration in the devotee. ... Depictions of the Buddha are almost always depicted performing a mudra.
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   What the Buddha Taught

   Publication data Rahula, Walpola What The Buddha Taught, Oneworld Publications: Oxford, (1959) (revised 1974).
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   Anatta

   The Buddha himself has said: “Both formerly and now, I’ve never been a nihilist (vinayika), never been one who teaches the annihilation of a being, rather taught only the source of suffering, and its ending.” ... For such reasons, I always proclaim that all sentient beings have the Buddha nature.
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   Dharmacakra

   All Buddhists agree that the original turning of the wheel occurred when the Buddha taught the five ascetics who became his first disciples at the Deer Park in Sarnath. ... In one, the first turning of the Dharmacakra is Gautama Buddha's original teaching, in particular the Four Noble Truths which describes the mechanics of attachment, desire, suffering, and liberation via the Eightfold Path; the second turning is the teaching of the Perfection of Wisdom sutra, a foundational text of Mahayana Buddhism; and the third is the teaching of the Mahavairocana Sutra, a foundational text of Tantric Buddhism.
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   Sangharakshita

   Another teaching which Sangharakshita has emphasised is that the Buddha taught two types of Dependent Arising, or Conditioned Co-production. ... One of the contributions of Sangharakshita is that he considers Buddhism as a whole and tries to see the common element in all the different traditions.
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   Walpola Rahula

   It was during his time at the Sorbonne in the late 1950s that he produced What the Buddha Taught, a highly regarded introductory text on Buddhism, for which he is best known.
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   Buddhahood

   Nature of the Buddha ... Buddhism however, is in general non-theistic, in the sense of not teaching the existence of a supreme creator god (see God in Buddhism) or depending on any supreme being for enlightenment.
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    Pāli Canon

    According to a late part of the Pali Canon, the Buddha taught the three pitakas. ... Types of Buddha · Bodhisattva · Four stages of enlightenment: (Stream-enterer, Once-returner, Non-returner, Arahant)

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