ABC
Religious texts
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Heavenly beings and deities
Legendary and historical figures
Legendary and real places
Symbols and art
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- Awakening
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- Dependent origination
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- Happiness
- Heavens and hells
- Impermanence
- Karma
- Koan
- Kung fu
- Meditation
- Merit
- Mindfulness
- Nirvana
- Non-self
- Om (mani padme hum)
- Parinirvana
- Pilgrimage sites
- Prajnaparamita
- Puja
- Pure lands
- Realms of existence
- Rebirth
- Recitation
- Renunciation
- Ritual
- Self
- Suffering
- Tales of rebirth
- Three Jewels
- Three-body doctrine
- Universal ruler
- Vesak
- Ye-dhamma formula
- Yoga
Three Baskets
Religious texts
The term Three Baskets (Skt. tripitaka, Pa. tipitaka; from Sanskrit tri, ‘three’, and pitaka, ‘basket’) describes the collection of Buddhist teachings. The Three Baskets contain the monastic rules (Skt./Pa. Vinayapitaka), the discourses (Skt. Sutrapitaka, Pa. Suttapitaka), and the philosophical treatises, conceptual analyses, and comments (Skt. Abhidharmapitaka, Pa. Abhidhammapitaka). Today, the Pali version of the Three Baskets is the most widely disseminated in Sri Lanka and across Southeast Asia; it is also the oldest completely preserved Buddhist canon still in use.