Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama in Sanskrit or Siddhattha Gotama in Pali, Shakyamuni

Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk, mendicant, sage, and Teacher on whose
teachings Buddhism was founded.

Theravāda is the most ancient branch of extant Buddhism today, and the one that preserved their version of the
teachings of Gautama Buddha in the Pāli Canon.

Mahāyāna is one of two main existing branches of Buddhism and a term for classification of Buddhist philosophies
and practice. This movement added a further set of discourses, and although it was initially small in India, it had long-
term historical significance.

Ashoka, sometimes Ashoka the Great, was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty, who ruled almost all of the
Indian subcontinent from c. 268 to 232 BCE. The grandson of the founder of the Maurya Dynasty, Chandragupta
Maurya, Ashoka promoted the spread of Buddhism.

Buddha, was a monk, mendicant, sage, and Teacher on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

Sangha, Buddhist monastic order, traditionally composed of four groups: monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen.
The sangha is a part—together with the Buddha and the dharma (teaching)—of the Threefold Refuge, a basic creed
of Buddhism.

The Three Jewels are: the Buddha, the fully enlightened one the Dharma, the teachings expounded by the Buddha
the Sangha, the monastic order of Buddhism that practice the Dharma Refuge is common to all major schools of
Buddhism.

Sarnath is a place located 10 kilometres north-east of Varanasi near the confluence of the Ganges and
the Varuna rivers in Uttar Pradesh, India. The deer park in Sarnath is where Gautama Buddha first taught
the Dharma, and where the Buddhist Sangha came into existence through the enlightenment of Kondanna.

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism. It was
strongly influenced by Taoism and developed as a distinct school of Chinese Buddhism.

Dalai Lama is the head monk of Tibetan Buddhism and traditionally has been responsible for the governing of Tibet,
until the Chinese government took control in 1959. Before 1959, his official residence was Potala Palace in Lhasa,
the capital of Tibet.

Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was a monk, mendicant, sage, and Teacher on
whose teachings Buddhism was founded.

Taṇhā is a Pāli word, which originates from the Vedic Sanskrit word tṛ́ṣṇā, which means "thirst, desire, wish", from
Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas. It is an important concept in Buddhism, referring to "thirst, desire, longing, greed", either
physical or mental.

A bhikkhunī or bhikṣuṇī is a fully ordained female monastic in Buddhism. Male monastics are called bhikkhus. Both
bhikkhunis and bhikkhus live by the Vinaya, a set of rules.

The ten precepts are the five precepts plus refraining from the following:

 taking substantial food after midday (from noon to dawn)

 dancing, singing and music.
 use of garlands, perfumes and personal adornment like jewelery.
 use of luxurious beds and seats.
 accepting and holding money, gold or silver.

Upali (Sanskrit उपालि upāli) was a monk, one of the ten chief disciples of the Buddha. ... When the princes left home
to become monks, Upali also sought ordination. Several variations on the story of Upali's ordination exist, but all of
them emphasize that his status in the Sangha was independent of his caste origin.

Ānanda (5th–4th centuries BCE) was the primary attendant of the Buddha and one of his ten principal disciples.

Bodhisattva (/ˌboʊdiːˈsʌtvə/ BOH-dee-SUT-və)[1] is the Sanskrit term for anyone who has generated Bodhicitta, a
spontaneous wish and compassionate mind to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all sentient beings.[2]Bodhisattvas
are a popular subject in Buddhist art.

Middle Way or Middle Path is the term that Gautama Buddha used to describe the character of the Noble Eightfold
Path he discovered that leads to liberation.

Four Noble Truths comprise the essence ofBuddha's teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are
the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path
that leads to the end of suffering.
Eightfold Path consists of eight practices: right view, right resolve, right speech, right conduct, right livelihood, right
effort, right mindfulness, and right samadhi ('meditative absorption or union'). ... The Noble Eightfold Path is one of
the principal teachings of Theravada Buddhism, taught to lead to Arhatship.

Tripiṭaka or Tipiṭaka, is the traditional term for the Buddhist scriptures. The version canonical to Theravada
Buddhism is generally referred to in English as the Pali Canon.

Vinaya Pitaka is a Buddhist scripture, one of the three parts that make up the Tripitaka. The other two parts of the
Tripitaka are the Sutta Pitaka and the Abhidhamma Pitaka. Its primary subject matter is the monastic rules for monks
and nuns.

Sutta Pitaka is the second of the three divisions of the Tripitaka or Pali Canon, the Pali collection of Buddhist writings
of Theravada Buddhism. The Sutta Pitaka contains more than 10,000 suttas attributed to the Buddha or his close
companions.

Abhidhamma Pitaka is the last of the three pitakas constituting the Pali Canon, the scriptures of Theravāda
Buddhism. The Abhidhamma Pitaka is a detailed scholastic analysis and summary of the Buddha's teachings in the
Suttas.

Sutra is a type of religious literature present in many Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Jainism andBuddhism. The
word sutra is a Sanskrit term that means “discourse” (in the Pali language: sutta). Another meaning suggested for the
word sutra is “threads”.

Dukkha is an important Buddhist concept, commonly translated as "suffering", "pain", "unsatisfactoriness" or "stress".
It refers to the fundamental unsatisfactoriness and painfulness of mundane life. It is the first of the Four Noble Truths.

Nirvana is the earliest and most common term used to describe the goal of the Buddhist path. The literal meaning is
"blowing out" or "quenching." It is the ultimate spiritual goal in Buddhism and marks the soteriological release from
rebirths in saṃsāra.

Samādhi, also called samāpatti, in Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism and yogic schools refers to a state of
meditative consciousness.

Dhammachakka has represented the Buddhism Gautama Buddha's teaching and walking of the path to
Enlightenment, since the time of early Buddhism. It is also connected to the Four Noble Truths and the Noble
Eightfold Path.

a bodhisattva has to practise six perfections:

1. the perfection of giving (dana paramita)

2. the perfection of morality (shila-paramita)
3. the perfection of patience (kshanti-paramita)
4. the perfection of energy (virya-paramita)
5. the perfection of meditation (dhyana-paramita)
6. the perfection of wisdom (prajna-paramira)