Humanities

Buddhism

The teaching ascribed to Gautama Buddha (ca. 483 B.C.) holding that suffering is inherent in life and that one can escape it into nirvana by mental and moral self-purification. (Webster, 3d ed)

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Abstract

The teaching ascribed to Gautama Buddha (ca. 483 B.C.) holding that suffering is inherent in life and that one can escape it into nirvana by mental and moral self-purification. (Webster, 3d ed)

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4 entry terms
  • Buddhist Ethics
  • Buddhist Ethic
  • Ethic, Buddhist
  • Ethics, Buddhist

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2 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings history, psychology.

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IM; specify geog if pertinent

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  1. K01w.844w.117w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Buddhism. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002016. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002016
  2. Buddhism. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhism
  3. Buddhism. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q748