Buddha -
"the enlightened one" - an epithet given
to Prince Siddhartha of the Shakya tribe after he attained a state of
boddhi, "Enlightenment", when he grasped the Sublime Wisdom. The
founder of Buddhism, one of the three ancient Indian religions.
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Lanna -
a state in the Far North of present-day
Thailand that existed up to the late 18th century. It flourished from
the second half of the 13th century to the middle of the 16th.
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Thai Lanna -
a script used in Lanna (the Far North) exclusively
for writing religious texts; no longer in use.
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Shakyamuni -
"the sage of Shakya stock" - one more epithet of
Prince Siddhartha Gautama, usually used in the standard expression "the
Buddha Shakyamuni".
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Theravada -
"the way of the elders" - one of the two main tendencies
in Buddhism, followed in Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Sri Lanka.
This branch of Buddhism took final shape on Sri Lanka in the 12th and
13th centuries and spread from there to Indochina. For its followers the
most important thing is a person's own efforts on the path of liberation
from the chain of reincarnations.
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Buddhism -
a religion that arose in the 6th-5th
centuries B.C. in eastern India. The name comes from the word "Buddha"
- "the enlightened one" - the name given to Prince Siddhartha Gautama,
the founder, after he had attained the state of boddhi or Enlightenment
and grasped the Sublime Wisdom.
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Pali -
the language of the sacred texts of Theravada
Buddhism, in which the Buddhist canon was first written down on Sri Lanka
in the 1st century B.C.
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