According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the ?gamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his q ...
concerning abortion although traditional Buddhism rejects abortion because it involves the deliberate destroying of a life and regards life as starting at conception. Although some Buddhism can be int ...
The epic Mahabharata is traditionally ascribed to the Sage Ved Vyasa; the Bhagavad Gita, being a part of the Mahabharata, is also ascribed to him.Date of composition Theories on the date of compositio ...
The word Ahimsa - sometimes spelled as Ahinsa - is derived from the Sanskrit root hi?s – to strike; hi?sā is injury or harm, a-hi?sā is the opposite of this, i.e. non harming or nonviolence.Ther ...
Akrodha (Sanskrit: ??????) means 'absence' or 'suppression of anger'. Akrodha is absence of anger, it is the capacity to check at the right time the waves of anger lest they manifest in actions; ...
Samhita (Sanskrit: sa?hitā IAST ?????? ; s?m'h?-taa, "compilation of knowledge" or "collection of Mantras or Hymns") may refer to:The basic metrical (mantra) text of each of the Vedas (Rigve ...
The Sanskrit term Upani?ad translates to "sitting down near", referring to the student sitting down near the teacher while receiving esoteric knowledge. Monier-Williams' Sanskrit Dictionary adds that ...
The Sanskrit word véda "knowledge, wisdom" is derived from the root vid- "to know". This is reconstructed as being derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *u?eid-, meaning "see" or "know".As a nou ...
The word derives from “Old English syn(n), for original *sunjō,... The stem may be related to that of Latin sons, sont-is guilty. In Old English there are examples of the original general sense, ‘o ...
The Classical Sanskrit noun dharma is a derivation from the root dh?, which has a meaning of "to hold, maintain, keep", and takes a meaning of "what is established or firm", and hence "law". It is de ...
?pastamba is from a family of Brahmins of the Taittirīya branch Vedic school dedicated to the study of the KRISHNA Yajurveda. It is believed that the entire Kalpasūtra was written by ?pastamba, bu ...
Hindu ethics are related to reincarnation, which is a way of expressing the need for reciprocity, as one may end up in someone else's shoes in their next incarnation. Intention is seen as very importa ...
In Arabic the word ?adīth (Arabic: ????? ?adīth IPA: ) means a "report, account, or narrative". The Arabic plural is ?a?ādīth (??????) (IPA: ). Hadith also refers to the speech of a ...
The name Muhammad means "praiseworthy" and occurs four times in the Quran. The Quran addresses Muhammad in the second person not by his name but by various appellations; prophet, messenger, servant of ...
The word qur?ān appears about 70 times in the Quran itself, assuming various meanings. It is a verbal noun (ma?dar) of the Arabic verb qara?a (???), meaning "he read" or "he recited". The Syria ...
