ABC
Religious texts
Religious schools and traditions
Heavenly beings and deities
Legendary and historical figures
Legendary and real places
Symbols and art
Doctrines and rituals
- Awakening
- Community
- Compassion
- Craving
- Dependent origination
- Dharma
- Eightfold Path
- Emptiness
- Five Precepts
- Four Noble Truths
- 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
Indology
Religious texts
Indology refers to the research and study of the languages and cultures of the Indian subcontinent, from the beginnings to the present day. Initially, scholars above all researched and translated texts in Indian languages such as Sanskrit and Pali. Later the study of linguistic and literary sources was complemented by research on Indian history and society. One of the first eminent indologists in the German-speaking world was the cultural philosopher and poet Friedrich Schlegel (1772–1829). Today, the University of Zurich offers a degree programme in Indology.