lingo

[roly]

Can you make me a lingo list for buddhism....u guys keep using words i dont understand and it hurts my brain...as a christian i want to remove myself from ignorance and learn about other religions....i am confuddled....

peace, love, roly..xxxxxx

[Meagain]

Here is a really good site you can book mark with a search ehgine or alpha listing.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=buddhist+terms

example:

Mahayana Buddhism: The teachings which expound the bodhisattva practice as the means toward enlightenment of both oneself and others, in contrast to Hinayana Buddhism, or the teaching of the Agon period, which aims only at personal salvation, or attaining the state of arhat. After Shakyamuni's death, the Buddhist Order experienced several schisms, and eventually eighteen or twenty schools formed, each of which developed its own doctrinal interpretation of the sutras. As time passed, the monks of these schools tended to.......