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Philosophy

This section contains 206 articles.

See also: Philosophers

Philosophical branches, approaches and concepts

This section contains 147 articles.

Ethics

This section contains 41 articles.

  1. Ethics ( Level 2)
Concepts

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Conscience ( Level 4)
  2. Duty
  3. Free will ( Level 3)
  4. Golden Rule ( Level 4)
  5. Good and evil ( Level 3)
    1. Good
    2. Evil
  6. Is–ought problem ( Level 4)
  7. Morality ( Level 4)
    1. Secular ethics
    2. Secular morality
  8. Norm (philosophy)
  9. Plagiarism ( Level 4)
  10. Principle
  11. Sanctity of life
  12. Value (ethics and social sciences) ( Level 4)
  13. Vice
  14. Virtue ( Level 4)
    1. Cardinal virtues
  15. Wisdom ( Level 4)
Approaches

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Applied ethics
    1. Bioethics
    2. Environmental ethics
      1. Anthropocentrism
      2. Biocentrism (ethics)
    3. Macroethics and microethics
  2. Normative ethics
    1. Consequentialism ( Level 4)
      1. Utilitarianism ( Level 4)
        1. Act utilitarianism
        2. Rule utilitarianism
    2. Deontology ( Level 4)
      1. Divine command theory
      2. Kantian ethics
    3. Virtue ethics
      1. Aristotelian ethics
  3. Humanism ( Level 4)
  4. Metaethics
  5. Nihilism ( Level 4)
  6. Moral relativism

Logic

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Logic ( Level 2)
  2. Argument ( Level 4)
  3. A priori and a posteriori ( Level 4)
  4. Contingency (philosophy)
  5. Deductive reasoning ( Level 4)
  6. Fallacy ( Level 4)
    1. Formal fallacy
  7. Inductive reasoning ( Level 4)
    1. Problem of induction
  8. Inference ( Level 4)
  9. Dialectic ( Level 4)
    1. Socratic method ( Level 4)
  10. Paradox ( Level 4)
    1. Epimenides paradox
    2. Zeno's paradoxes
  11. Philosophical logic
    1. Informal logic
    2. Bias
  12. Syllogism

Epistemology

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Epistemology ( Level 3)
Concepts

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Belief ( Level 3)
  2. Common sense ( Level 4)
  3. Concept ( Level 4)
  4. Experience ( Level 4)
  5. Ineffability
  6. Knowledge ( Level 2)
  7. Luck
  8. Opinion ( Level 4)
  9. Paradigm ( Level 4)
  10. Rationality
  11. Reason ( Level 3)
  12. Superstition ( Level 4)
  13. Thought experiment ( Level 4)
  14. Truth ( Level 3)
  15. Worldview ( Level 4)
    1. Life stance
  16. Uncertainty
Approaches

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Empiricism ( Level 4)
  2. Holism
  3. Naturalism (philosophy) ( Level 4)
  4. Occam's razor ( Level 4)
  5. Rationalism ( Level 4)
  6. Reductionism ( Level 4)

Metaphysics

This section contains 27 articles.

  1. Metaphysics ( Level 3)
Concepts

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Allegory of the cave
  2. Atomism
  3. Existence ( Level 4)
    1. Meaning of life
  4. Liminality
  5. Ontology ( Level 3)
  6. Causality
  7. Mental representation ( Level 4)
  8. Reality ( Level 4)
  9. Abstraction ( Level 4)
  10. Nothing
    1. The Void (philosophy)
  11. Problem of universals
  12. Theory of mind
  13. Nondualism
  14. Self
  15. Other (philosophy)
Approaches

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Determinism ( Level 4)
  2. Idealism ( Level 4)
  3. Materialism ( Level 4)
  4. Dialectical materialism
    1. Physicalism
  5. Metaphysical naturalism
  6. Monism ( Level 4)
  7. Mind–body dualism ( Level 4)
  8. Relativism ( Level 4)

Aesthetics

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Aesthetics ( Level 3)
Concepts

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Beauty ( Level 4)
  2. Essentially contested concept
  3. Mimesis
  4. Perfection
  5. Picturesque
  6. Sublime (philosophy)
  7. Uncanny valley

Philosophy of language

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Language game (philosophy)
  2. Meaning (philosophy) ( Level 4)

Philosophy of mind

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Qualia

Philosophy of science

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Deductive-nomological model
  2. Demarcation problem
  3. Fact ( Level 4)
  4. Fallibilism
  5. Falsifiability
  6. Hypothesis ( Level 4)
  7. Inductivism
  8. Natural philosophy ( Level 4)
  9. Pseudoscience ( Level 4)
    1. Parapsychology ( Level 4)
      1. Telepathy
  10. Scientific skepticism
  11. Theory ( Level 4)

Religious philosophy

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Religious philosophy
    1. Jewish philosophy
    2. Christian philosophy ( Level 4)
      1. Natural law
    3. Islamic philosophy ( Level 4)
    4. Buddhist philosophy ( Level 4)
  2. Existence of God
    1. Cosmological argument
    2. Ontological argument
    3. Teleological argument
  3. Theodicy
    1. Problem of evil

Philosophical schools and traditions

This section contains 28 articles.

  1. Absurdism
  2. Aristotelianism
  3. Charvaka
  4. Confucianism ( Level 3)
    1. Four Books and Five Classics
    2. Neo-Confucianism
  5. Continental philosophy
  6. Existentialism
  7. Kantianism
  8. Legalism (Chinese philosophy) ( Level 4)
  9. Logical positivism
    1. Vienna Circle
  10. Objectivism
  11. Phenomenology (philosophy) ( Level 4)
  12. Theory of forms ( Level 4)
  13. Posthumanism
  14. Sophist ( Level 4)
  15. Positivism ( Level 4)
  16. Pragmatism ( Level 4)
  17. Scholasticism
  18. Skepticism ( Level 4)
  19. Stoicism ( Level 4)
  20. Structuralism
  21. Taoist philosophy
    1. Wu wei
    2. Ziran
  22. Thomism ( Level 4)
  23. Transhumanism

Religion and spirituality

This section contains 166 articles.

See also: Philosophers and Religious figures

Basics

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Religion ( Level 2)
  2. Comparative religion ( Level 4)
  3. Ethnic religion
  4. Evolutionary origin of religion
  5. Faith and rationality
  6. Folk religion ( Level 4)
  7. Morality and religion
  8. Mysticism ( Level 4)
  9. Occult
  10. Relationship between religion and science
  11. Religious studies
  12. Religious violence
  13. Secularization
  14. Theology ( Level 4)
    1. Ecotheology
    2. Exegesis
    3. Feminist theology
  15. Theories about religion

Deity

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Deity ( Level 2)
    1. God ( Level 3)
    2. Conceptions of God
    3. Goddess ( Level 4)
      1. Mother goddess
    4. Creator deity
    5. Demigod
    6. Sky deity
    7. Solar deity
    8. Vegetation deity
  2. Divinity

Practices

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Adoration
  2. Asceticism
  3. Cult (religious practice)
  4. Fasting ( Level 4)
  5. Celibacy ( Level 4)
  6. Speaking in tongues
  7. Heresy ( Level 4)
  8. Hermit
  9. Icon ( Level 4)
  10. Iconoclasm ( Level 4)
  11. Idolatry ( Level 4)
  12. Liturgy ( Level 4)
  13. Martyr
  14. Meditation ( Level 3)
  15. Monk
  16. Pilgrimage ( Level 4)
  17. Prayer ( Level 3)
  18. Prophecy ( Level 4)
    1. Oracle
    2. Prophet
    3. False prophet
  19. Proselytism
  20. Relic ( Level 4)
  21. Religious conversion ( Level 4)
  22. Religious ecstasy
  23. Revelation
  24. Ritual ( Level 3)
    1. Fertility rite
    2. Rite of passage
    3. Sacrifice ( Level 4)
  25. Saint ( Level 4)
  26. Faith healing
  27. Spiritual practice
  28. Tithe
  29. Trance
  30. Veneration
    1. Veneration of the dead ( Level 4)
  31. Vision (spirituality)
  32. Worship ( Level 4)
  33. Retreat (spiritual)

Beliefs

This section contains 32 articles.

  1. Animism ( Level 4)
  2. Apologetics ( Level 4)
  3. Apostasy ( Level 4)
  4. Astrology ( Level 4)
    1. Astrological sign
    2. Chinese zodiac
    3. Chaos (cosmogony)
  5. Blessing
  6. Creationism
    1. Intelligent design
  7. Creation myth ( Level 4)
  8. Doctrine
  9. Curse ( Level 4)
  10. Divination ( Level 4)
  11. Eschatology ( Level 4)
  12. Faith ( Level 4)
  13. Magic (supernatural) ( Level 4)
    1. Black magic
    2. Energy (esotericism)
    3. Necromancy
    4. Thaumaturgy
    5. Theurgy
    6. Witchcraft ( Level 4)
  14. Origin myth ( Level 4)
  15. Religious experience ( Level 4)
  16. Sacredness ( Level 4)
    1. Profane (religion)
    2. Sacred space
  17. Spirituality ( Level 3)
  18. Supernatural ( Level 4)
  19. Theophany
  20. Totem ( Level 4)

Death

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Burial ( Level 4)
  2. Cemetery ( Level 4)
  3. Cremation ( Level 4)
  4. Crypt
  5. Funeral ( Level 4)
  6. Mausoleum
  7. Mummy ( Level 4)

Afterlife

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Afterlife ( Level 3)
  2. Heaven ( Level 4)
  3. Hell ( Level 4)
  4. Reincarnation ( Level 4)
  5. Resurrection ( Level 4)
  6. Soul ( Level 3)
  7. Spirit (animating force)
  8. Underworld

Institutions

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Altar ( Level 4)
  2. Anti-clericalism ( Level 4)
  3. Bishop
    1. Diocese
  4. Blasphemy
  5. Creed ( Level 4)
  6. Cult ( Level 4)
  7. Missionary
  8. Monastery ( Level 4)
  9. Priest ( Level 4)
  10. Religious denomination
  11. Schism ( Level 4)
  12. Sect ( Level 4)
  13. Shrine
  14. State religion ( Level 4)
  15. Temple ( Level 4)

Theistic philosophies

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Theism ( Level 4)
  2. Deism ( Level 4)
    1. Christian deism
    2. Pandeism
  3. Fundamentalism ( Level 4)
  4. Monotheism ( Level 4)
  5. Orthodoxy ( Level 4)
  6. Paganism ( Level 4)
  7. Panentheism ( Level 4)
  8. Polytheism ( Level 4)
  9. Syncretism ( Level 4)

Pantheism and nontheistic religions

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Pantheism ( Level 4)
  2. Nontheistic religion

Non-theistic philosophies

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Atheism ( Level 3)
    1. Demographics of atheism
    2. Negative and positive atheism
    3. New Atheism
  2. Agnosticism ( Level 4)
  3. Antitheism
  4. Criticism of religion
    1. Parody religion
    2. Russell's teapot
  5. Freethought ( Level 4)
  6. Irreligion
  7. Nontheism
  8. Secularism ( Level 3)
    1. Civil naming ceremony
    2. Secularism in France
    3. Secular coming-of-age ceremony
    4. Secular education
    5. Secularity
    6. Separation of church and state
      1. Separation of church and state in the United States
  9. Secular humanism

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 412 articles.

Basics

This section contains 18 articles.

Books of the Bible

This section contains 70 articles.

Christianity

This section contains 171 articles.

Basics

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Christians
  2. Church (congregation) ( Level 4)
    1. National church

Theology

This section contains 67 articles.

  1. Biblical hermeneutics
  2. Born again
    1. Sinner's prayer
  3. Catholicity ( Level 4)
    1. Catholic social teaching
    2. Purgatory ( Level 4)
  4. Angels in Christianity
    1. Archangel
    2. Cherub
    3. Fallen angel
    4. Guardian angel
    5. Ophanim
    6. Seraph
    7. Throne (angel)
  5. Christian eschatology
    1. Antichrist
    2. Apocalyptic literature
    3. The Beast (Revelation)
    4. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
    5. Rapture
    6. Great Tribulation
    7. Second Coming ( Level 4)
    8. Armageddon
    9. Millennialism
    10. Last Judgment
    11. New Earth (Christianity)
  6. Christian mission
    1. Great Commission
  7. Fall of man
    1. Original sin
    2. Seven deadly sins
    3. Mortal sin
    4. Venial sin
    5. Indulgence
    6. Contrition
    7. Repentance in Christianity
  8. Christian ethics
    1. Good works
    2. Modesty
    3. Christian pacifism
    4. Christian views on marriage
    5. Unconditional love
    6. Charity (Christian virtue)
    7. Agape
    8. Great Commandment
  9. Devil in Christianity
  10. Five solae
  11. Hell in Christianity
  12. Criticism of Christianity
  13. The gospel
  14. Grace in Christianity ( Level 4)
  15. Justification (theology)
  16. Kingdom of God (Christianity)
  17. Life of Jesus
    1. Chronology of Jesus
    2. Nativity of Jesus
    3. Ministry of Jesus
    4. Last Supper
    5. Crucifixion of Jesus
    6. Resurrection of Jesus
  18. Restorationism
  19. Sacred tradition
  20. Spiritual gift
  21. Trinity ( Level 4)
    1. God the Father
    2. God the Son
    3. Holy Spirit in Christianity

Denominations

This section contains 58 articles.

  1. Christian denomination
  2. Catholic Church ( Level 3)
    1. Celtic Christianity
    2. Eastern Catholic Churches ( Level 4)
    3. Pope ( Level 4)
    4. Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
    5. Roman Curia
    6. College of Cardinals
  3. Charismatic Christianity
  4. Eastern Christianity ( Level 4)
    1. Eastern Orthodox Church ( Level 3)
      1. Eastern Orthodoxy
      2. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
      3. Greek Orthodox Church
      4. Russian Orthodox Church ( Level 4)
    2. Oriental Orthodox Churches ( Level 4)
      1. Armenian Apostolic Church
      2. Coptic Orthodox Church ( Level 4)
      3. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( Level 4)
  5. Protestantism ( Level 3)
    1. Anabaptism
      1. Amish
      2. Schwarzenau Brethren
      3. Hutterites
      4. Mennonites
    2. Anglicanism ( Level 4)
      1. Church of England
        1. Archbishop of Canterbury
    3. Arminianism ( Level 4)
    4. Baptists ( Level 4)
      1. Free Will Baptist
      2. Southern Baptist Convention
    5. Black church
    6. Reformed Christianity ( Level 4)
      1. Congregationalism
      2. Continental Reformed Protestantism
      3. Presbyterianism
    7. Evangelicalism ( Level 4)
    8. Lutheranism ( Level 4)
    9. Mainline Protestant
    10. Methodism ( Level 4)
      1. United Methodist Church
      2. African Methodist Episcopal Church
    11. Moravian Church
    12. Pentecostalism ( Level 4)
    13. Quakers ( Level 4)
      1. Shakers
    14. Seventh-day Adventist Church ( Level 4)
  6. Nontrinitarianism ( Level 4)
    1. Arianism
    2. Jehovah's Witnesses ( Level 4)
    3. Mormonism ( Level 4)
      1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
      2. Book of Mormon
    4. Socinianism
    5. Unitarianism ( Level 4)
      1. Unitarian Universalism
  7. World Mission Society Church of God

Practices

This section contains 43 articles.

  1. Christian culture
  2. Christian mysticism
    1. Hesychasm
  3. Christian prayer
    1. Apostles' Creed
    2. Jesus Prayer
    3. Lectio Divina
    4. Lord's Prayer ( Level 4)
    5. Nicene Creed
    6. Rosary
  4. Church (building) ( Level 4)
    1. Basilica
    2. Cathedral
    3. Chapel
  5. Christian monasticism
    1. Dominican Order
    2. Franciscans
    3. Order of Saint Augustine
    4. Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)
    5. Jesuits
      1. Ignatian spirituality
    6. Rule of Saint Benedict
      1. Ora et labora
  6. Church service
    1. Christian liturgy
    2. Church music
    3. Mass in the Catholic Church
    4. Sermon
  7. Ecumenism ( Level 4)
  8. Liturgical year
  9. Sacrament
    1. Anointing of the sick
    2. Baptism ( Level 4)
    3. Confirmation
    4. Eucharist ( Level 4)
    5. Holy orders
    6. Sacrament of Penance
  10. Christian symbolism
    1. Alpha and Omega
    2. Chi Rho
    3. Christian cross
      1. Crucifix
    4. Ichthys

Judaism

This section contains 50 articles.

Islam

This section contains 103 articles.

Basics

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Islamic studies
  2. Glossary of Islam
  3. Muslim world
  4. Criticism of Islam
  5. Ibadah
  6. Imam ( Level 4)
  7. Mosque ( Level 4)
    1. Mihrab
    2. Minaret
    3. Minbar
    4. Muezzin
  8. Muslims

Texts

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Kutub al-Sittah
  2. Islamic holy books
  3. Sīrah
  4. Quran ( Level 3)
    1. Juz'
    2. Surah
    3. Āyah
    4. I'jaz
    5. Hafiz (Quran)
    6. Tajwid
    7. Tafsir
  5. Sunnah
    1. Hadith ( Level 4)

Schools

This section contains 30 articles.

  1. Islamic schools and branches ( Level 4)
  2. Sunni Islam ( Level 3)
    1. Salafi movement
    2. Atharism
    3. Hanafi school
    4. Shafi'i school
    5. Hanbali school
    6. Maliki school
    7. Ash'arism
    8. Maturidism
    9. Wahhabism
  3. Shia Islam ( Level 3)
    1. Twelve Imams
    2. Ja'fari school
    3. Alevism
    4. Isma'ilism
    5. Twelver Shi'ism
    6. Zaydism
  4. Sufism ( Level 4)
    1. Tariqa
    2. Mevlevi Order
    3. Shadhili
    4. Suhrawardiyya
    5. Bektashi Order
    6. Badawiyya
    7. Tijaniyyah
    8. Chishti Order
  5. Kharijites
    1. Ibadi Islam
  6. Mu'tazilism

Terms

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Halal ( Level 4)
  2. Haram ( Level 4)
  3. Jihad
    1. Mujahideen
  4. Ummah
  5. Sharia ( Level 4)
    1. Fatwa
  6. Fiqh ( Level 4)
    1. Principles of Islamic jurisprudence
    2. Taqlid
    3. Ulama
    4. Madhhab
    5. Ahkam
    6. Sources of Sharia
      1. Ijma
      2. Qiyas
      3. Adat
      4. Istihsan

Beliefs

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Iman (Islam)
  2. Allah ( Level 4)
    1. Names of God in Islam
    2. Tawhid
  3. Prophets and messengers in Islam
  4. Angels in Islam
  5. Islamic eschatology
    1. Akhirah
    2. Jannah
    3. Jahannam
    4. Predestination in Islam
  6. Aqidah

Practices

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Five Pillars of Islam ( Level 4)
    1. Shahada
    2. Salah
      1. Qibla
      2. Adhan
    3. Zakat
    4. Fasting in Islam
    5. Hajj ( Level 4)
      1. Black Stone
  2. Ritual purity in Islam
    1. Wudu
  3. Arba'in pilgrimage
  4. Bishwa Ijtema

Other

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Companions of the Prophet
    1. Rashidun
    2. The ten to whom Paradise was promised
    3. Ahl al-Bayt
    4. Wives of Muhammad

Eastern religions

This section contains 189 articles.

Basics

This section contains 29 articles.

Major religions

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Indian religions
    1. Hinduism ( Level 3)
    2. Buddhism ( Level 3)
    3. Jainism ( Level 3)
    4. Sikhism ( Level 3)
  2. Taoism ( Level 3)
  3. Shinto ( Level 3)
  4. Manichaeism ( Level 4)

Common concepts

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Ahimsa
  2. Dharma ( Level 4)
  3. Guru
  4. Karma ( Level 4)
  5. Mandala
  6. Moksha
  7. Om ( Level 4)
  8. Qi ( Level 4)
  9. Saṃsāra
  10. Śramaṇa
  11. Swastika ( Level 4)
  12. Yin and yang ( Level 4)
  13. Impermanence
  14. Anattā
  15. Śūnyatā
  16. Svabhava

Common practices

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Bhajan
  2. Mantra ( Level 4)
  3. Tantra ( Level 4)
  4. Yoga ( Level 4)
  5. Phowa

Hinduism

This section contains 31 articles.

Buddhism

This section contains 105 articles.

Traditions

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Mahayana ( Level 3)
    1. Chan Buddhism
    2. Pure Land Buddhism
      1. Amitābha
    3. Zen ( Level 4)
      1. Rinzai school
      2. Sōtō
  2. Theravada ( Level 3)
  3. Vajrayana ( Level 4)
    1. Tibetan Buddhism
      1. Dalai Lama
      2. Nyingma
      3. Kagyu
        1. Drukpa Kagyu
        2. Karma Kagyu
      4. Gelug
      5. Sakya
      6. Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism)
  4. Chinese Buddhism
  5. Hinayana
  6. Buddhism in the West
  7. Dzogchen
    1. Ground (Dzogchen)
  8. Mahamudra

Concepts

This section contains 44 articles.

  1. Bodhisattva
    1. Avalokiteśvara ( Level 4)
    2. Guanyin
  2. Four Noble Truths ( Level 4)
    1. Duḥkha
    2. Pratītyasamutpāda
    3. Nirodha
    4. Noble Eightfold Path
  3. Nirvana ( Level 4)
  4. Rebirth (Buddhism)
    1. Bardo
  5. Skandha
    1. Rūpa
    2. Vedanā
    3. Samjna (concept)
    4. Saṅkhāra
    5. Vijñāna
  6. Yana (Buddhism)
  7. Refuge in Buddhism
  8. Tathātā
  9. Buddha-nature
  10. Brahmavihara
    1. Maitrī
    2. Karuṇā
    3. Mudita
    4. Upekṣā
  11. Middle Way
  12. Three marks of existence
  13. Trikaya
    1. Dharmakāya
    2. Saṃbhogakāya
    3. Nirmāṇakāya
  14. Enlightenment in Buddhism
  15. Yidam
    1. Tara (Buddhism)
  16. Yab-Yum
  17. Tertön
  18. Terma (religion)
  19. Bodhicitta
  20. Rigpa
  21. Five Pure Lights
  22. Svasaṃvedana
  23. Rainbow body
  24. Sangha

Texts

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Bardo Thodol
  2. Diamond Sutra ( Level 4)
  3. Jataka tales
  4. Lotus Sutra
  5. Pali Canon ( Level 4)
    1. Sutta Piṭaka
    2. Vinaya Piṭaka
    3. Abhidharma
  6. Prajnaparamita
  7. Tripiṭaka
  8. Longchen Nyingthig
  9. Seventeen tantras

Practices

This section contains 25 articles.

  1. Buddhist meditation
    1. Lotus position
    2. Zazen
    3. Samatha-vipassana
  2. Buddhist monasticism
    1. Bhikkhu
    2. Bhikkhunī
    3. Vinaya
  3. Butsudan
  4. Pāramitā
  5. Lojong
  6. Lamrim
  7. Ngöndro
  8. Tonglen
  9. Six Dharmas of Naropa
  10. Tummo
  11. Semde
  12. Longdé
  13. Menngagde
  14. Ganachakra
  15. Zhitro
  16. Trul khor
  17. Pointing-out instruction
  18. Dark retreat
  19. Dream yoga

Jainism

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Pravachanasara
  2. Tattvartha Sutra
  3. Digambara
  4. Śvetāmbara
  5. Mount Meru
  6. Tirthankara

Other

This section contains 18 articles.

Sikhism

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Guru Granth Sahib ( Level 4)
  2. Golden Temple ( Level 4)
  3. Sikh gurus

Taoism

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Tao
    1. De (Chinese)
  2. Taoist diet
  3. Three Treasures (Taoism)
Books

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Daozang
  2. Tao Te Ching ( Level 4)
  3. Zhuangzi (book) ( Level 4)

Shinto

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Association of Shinto Shrines
  2. Ema (Shinto)
  3. Harae
  4. Kagura
  5. Kojiki ( Level 4)
  6. Misogi
  7. Shinto shrine

Bon

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Bon

Other religions

This section contains 79 articles.

Other religions: General

This section contains 26 articles.

Ancient religions

This section contains 23 articles.

Western esotericism

This section contains 12 articles.

New religious movements

This section contains 18 articles.

Mythology

This section contains 369 articles.

Mythology: General

This section contains 11 articles.

By culture and religion

This section contains 16 articles.

Abrahamic and Judaic mythology

This section contains 54 articles.

African mythology

This section contains 2 articles.

Australian aborigine mythology

This section contains 2 articles.

Canaanite mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

Carthaginian mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Celtic mythology

This section contains 6 articles.

Central Asian mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

Chinese mythology

This section contains 11 articles.

Egyptian mythology

This section contains 21 articles.

Germanic mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Greek and Roman mythology

This section contains 52 articles.

Hindu mythology

This section contains 25 articles.

Indo-Iranian mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Korean mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Mesopotamian mythology

This section contains 11 articles.

Native American mythology

This section contains 12 articles.

Norse mythology

This section contains 22 articles.

Polynesian mythology

This section contains 2 articles.

Shinto mythology

This section contains 5 articles.

Mythological creatures

This section contains 83 articles.

Legendary creatures

This section contains 78 articles.

Mythological places

This section contains 17 articles.

Mythological items

This section contains 7 articles.


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Philosophy

This section contains 206 articles.

See also: Philosophers

Philosophical branches, approaches and concepts

This section contains 147 articles.

Ethics

This section contains 41 articles.

  1. Ethics ( Level 2)
Concepts

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Conscience ( Level 4)
  2. Duty
  3. Free will ( Level 3)
  4. Golden Rule ( Level 4)
  5. Good and evil ( Level 3)
    1. Good
    2. Evil
  6. Is–ought problem ( Level 4)
  7. Morality ( Level 4)
    1. Secular ethics
    2. Secular morality
  8. Norm (philosophy)
  9. Plagiarism ( Level 4)
  10. Principle
  11. Sanctity of life
  12. Value (ethics and social sciences) ( Level 4)
  13. Vice
  14. Virtue ( Level 4)
    1. Cardinal virtues
  15. Wisdom ( Level 4)
Approaches

This section contains 20 articles.

  1. Applied ethics
    1. Bioethics
    2. Environmental ethics
      1. Anthropocentrism
      2. Biocentrism (ethics)
    3. Macroethics and microethics
  2. Normative ethics
    1. Consequentialism ( Level 4)
      1. Utilitarianism ( Level 4)
        1. Act utilitarianism
        2. Rule utilitarianism
    2. Deontology ( Level 4)
      1. Divine command theory
      2. Kantian ethics
    3. Virtue ethics
      1. Aristotelian ethics
  3. Humanism ( Level 4)
  4. Metaethics
  5. Nihilism ( Level 4)
  6. Moral relativism

Logic

This section contains 19 articles.

  1. Logic ( Level 2)
  2. Argument ( Level 4)
  3. A priori and a posteriori ( Level 4)
  4. Contingency (philosophy)
  5. Deductive reasoning ( Level 4)
  6. Fallacy ( Level 4)
    1. Formal fallacy
  7. Inductive reasoning ( Level 4)
    1. Problem of induction
  8. Inference ( Level 4)
  9. Dialectic ( Level 4)
    1. Socratic method ( Level 4)
  10. Paradox ( Level 4)
    1. Epimenides paradox
    2. Zeno's paradoxes
  11. Philosophical logic
    1. Informal logic
    2. Bias
  12. Syllogism

Epistemology

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Epistemology ( Level 3)
Concepts

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Belief ( Level 3)
  2. Common sense ( Level 4)
  3. Concept ( Level 4)
  4. Experience ( Level 4)
  5. Ineffability
  6. Knowledge ( Level 2)
  7. Luck
  8. Opinion ( Level 4)
  9. Paradigm ( Level 4)
  10. Rationality
  11. Reason ( Level 3)
  12. Superstition ( Level 4)
  13. Thought experiment ( Level 4)
  14. Truth ( Level 3)
  15. Worldview ( Level 4)
    1. Life stance
  16. Uncertainty
Approaches

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Empiricism ( Level 4)
  2. Holism
  3. Naturalism (philosophy) ( Level 4)
  4. Occam's razor ( Level 4)
  5. Rationalism ( Level 4)
  6. Reductionism ( Level 4)

Metaphysics

This section contains 27 articles.

  1. Metaphysics ( Level 3)
Concepts

This section contains 17 articles.

  1. Allegory of the cave
  2. Atomism
  3. Existence ( Level 4)
    1. Meaning of life
  4. Liminality
  5. Ontology ( Level 3)
  6. Causality
  7. Mental representation ( Level 4)
  8. Reality ( Level 4)
  9. Abstraction ( Level 4)
  10. Nothing
    1. The Void (philosophy)
  11. Problem of universals
  12. Theory of mind
  13. Nondualism
  14. Self
  15. Other (philosophy)
Approaches

This section contains 9 articles.

  1. Determinism ( Level 4)
  2. Idealism ( Level 4)
  3. Materialism ( Level 4)
  4. Dialectical materialism
    1. Physicalism
  5. Metaphysical naturalism
  6. Monism ( Level 4)
  7. Mind–body dualism ( Level 4)
  8. Relativism ( Level 4)

Aesthetics

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Aesthetics ( Level 3)
Concepts

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Beauty ( Level 4)
  2. Essentially contested concept
  3. Mimesis
  4. Perfection
  5. Picturesque
  6. Sublime (philosophy)
  7. Uncanny valley

Philosophy of language

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Language game (philosophy)
  2. Meaning (philosophy) ( Level 4)

Philosophy of mind

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Qualia

Philosophy of science

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Deductive-nomological model
  2. Demarcation problem
  3. Fact ( Level 4)
  4. Fallibilism
  5. Falsifiability
  6. Hypothesis ( Level 4)
  7. Inductivism
  8. Natural philosophy ( Level 4)
  9. Pseudoscience ( Level 4)
    1. Parapsychology ( Level 4)
      1. Telepathy
  10. Scientific skepticism
  11. Theory ( Level 4)

Religious philosophy

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Religious philosophy
    1. Jewish philosophy
    2. Christian philosophy ( Level 4)
      1. Natural law
    3. Islamic philosophy ( Level 4)
    4. Buddhist philosophy ( Level 4)
  2. Existence of God
    1. Cosmological argument
    2. Ontological argument
    3. Teleological argument
  3. Theodicy
    1. Problem of evil

Philosophical schools and traditions

This section contains 28 articles.

  1. Absurdism
  2. Aristotelianism
  3. Charvaka
  4. Confucianism ( Level 3)
    1. Four Books and Five Classics
    2. Neo-Confucianism
  5. Continental philosophy
  6. Existentialism
  7. Kantianism
  8. Legalism (Chinese philosophy) ( Level 4)
  9. Logical positivism
    1. Vienna Circle
  10. Objectivism
  11. Phenomenology (philosophy) ( Level 4)
  12. Theory of forms ( Level 4)
  13. Posthumanism
  14. Sophist ( Level 4)
  15. Positivism ( Level 4)
  16. Pragmatism ( Level 4)
  17. Scholasticism
  18. Skepticism ( Level 4)
  19. Stoicism ( Level 4)
  20. Structuralism
  21. Taoist philosophy
    1. Wu wei
    2. Ziran
  22. Thomism ( Level 4)
  23. Transhumanism

Religion and spirituality

This section contains 166 articles.

See also: Philosophers and Religious figures

Basics

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Religion ( Level 2)
  2. Comparative religion ( Level 4)
  3. Ethnic religion
  4. Evolutionary origin of religion
  5. Faith and rationality
  6. Folk religion ( Level 4)
  7. Morality and religion
  8. Mysticism ( Level 4)
  9. Occult
  10. Relationship between religion and science
  11. Religious studies
  12. Religious violence
  13. Secularization
  14. Theology ( Level 4)
    1. Ecotheology
    2. Exegesis
    3. Feminist theology
  15. Theories about religion

Deity

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Deity ( Level 2)
    1. God ( Level 3)
    2. Conceptions of God
    3. Goddess ( Level 4)
      1. Mother goddess
    4. Creator deity
    5. Demigod
    6. Sky deity
    7. Solar deity
    8. Vegetation deity
  2. Divinity

Practices

This section contains 40 articles.

  1. Adoration
  2. Asceticism
  3. Cult (religious practice)
  4. Fasting ( Level 4)
  5. Celibacy ( Level 4)
  6. Speaking in tongues
  7. Heresy ( Level 4)
  8. Hermit
  9. Icon ( Level 4)
  10. Iconoclasm ( Level 4)
  11. Idolatry ( Level 4)
  12. Liturgy ( Level 4)
  13. Martyr
  14. Meditation ( Level 3)
  15. Monk
  16. Pilgrimage ( Level 4)
  17. Prayer ( Level 3)
  18. Prophecy ( Level 4)
    1. Oracle
    2. Prophet
    3. False prophet
  19. Proselytism
  20. Relic ( Level 4)
  21. Religious conversion ( Level 4)
  22. Religious ecstasy
  23. Revelation
  24. Ritual ( Level 3)
    1. Fertility rite
    2. Rite of passage
    3. Sacrifice ( Level 4)
  25. Saint ( Level 4)
  26. Faith healing
  27. Spiritual practice
  28. Tithe
  29. Trance
  30. Veneration
    1. Veneration of the dead ( Level 4)
  31. Vision (spirituality)
  32. Worship ( Level 4)
  33. Retreat (spiritual)

Beliefs

This section contains 32 articles.

  1. Animism ( Level 4)
  2. Apologetics ( Level 4)
  3. Apostasy ( Level 4)
  4. Astrology ( Level 4)
    1. Astrological sign
    2. Chinese zodiac
    3. Chaos (cosmogony)
  5. Blessing
  6. Creationism
    1. Intelligent design
  7. Creation myth ( Level 4)
  8. Doctrine
  9. Curse ( Level 4)
  10. Divination ( Level 4)
  11. Eschatology ( Level 4)
  12. Faith ( Level 4)
  13. Magic (supernatural) ( Level 4)
    1. Black magic
    2. Energy (esotericism)
    3. Necromancy
    4. Thaumaturgy
    5. Theurgy
    6. Witchcraft ( Level 4)
  14. Origin myth ( Level 4)
  15. Religious experience ( Level 4)
  16. Sacredness ( Level 4)
    1. Profane (religion)
    2. Sacred space
  17. Spirituality ( Level 3)
  18. Supernatural ( Level 4)
  19. Theophany
  20. Totem ( Level 4)

Death

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Burial ( Level 4)
  2. Cemetery ( Level 4)
  3. Cremation ( Level 4)
  4. Crypt
  5. Funeral ( Level 4)
  6. Mausoleum
  7. Mummy ( Level 4)

Afterlife

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Afterlife ( Level 3)
  2. Heaven ( Level 4)
  3. Hell ( Level 4)
  4. Reincarnation ( Level 4)
  5. Resurrection ( Level 4)
  6. Soul ( Level 3)
  7. Spirit (animating force)
  8. Underworld

Institutions

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Altar ( Level 4)
  2. Anti-clericalism ( Level 4)
  3. Bishop
    1. Diocese
  4. Blasphemy
  5. Creed ( Level 4)
  6. Cult ( Level 4)
  7. Missionary
  8. Monastery ( Level 4)
  9. Priest ( Level 4)
  10. Religious denomination
  11. Schism ( Level 4)
  12. Sect ( Level 4)
  13. Shrine
  14. State religion ( Level 4)
  15. Temple ( Level 4)

Theistic philosophies

This section contains 11 articles.

  1. Theism ( Level 4)
  2. Deism ( Level 4)
    1. Christian deism
    2. Pandeism
  3. Fundamentalism ( Level 4)
  4. Monotheism ( Level 4)
  5. Orthodoxy ( Level 4)
  6. Paganism ( Level 4)
  7. Panentheism ( Level 4)
  8. Polytheism ( Level 4)
  9. Syncretism ( Level 4)

Pantheism and nontheistic religions

This section contains 2 articles.

  1. Pantheism ( Level 4)
  2. Nontheistic religion

Non-theistic philosophies

This section contains 21 articles.

  1. Atheism ( Level 3)
    1. Demographics of atheism
    2. Negative and positive atheism
    3. New Atheism
  2. Agnosticism ( Level 4)
  3. Antitheism
  4. Criticism of religion
    1. Parody religion
    2. Russell's teapot
  5. Freethought ( Level 4)
  6. Irreligion
  7. Nontheism
  8. Secularism ( Level 3)
    1. Civil naming ceremony
    2. Secularism in France
    3. Secular coming-of-age ceremony
    4. Secular education
    5. Secularity
    6. Separation of church and state
      1. Separation of church and state in the United States
  9. Secular humanism

Abrahamic religions

This section contains 412 articles.

Basics

This section contains 18 articles.

Books of the Bible

This section contains 70 articles.

Christianity

This section contains 171 articles.

Basics

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Christians
  2. Church (congregation) ( Level 4)
    1. National church

Theology

This section contains 67 articles.

  1. Biblical hermeneutics
  2. Born again
    1. Sinner's prayer
  3. Catholicity ( Level 4)
    1. Catholic social teaching
    2. Purgatory ( Level 4)
  4. Angels in Christianity
    1. Archangel
    2. Cherub
    3. Fallen angel
    4. Guardian angel
    5. Ophanim
    6. Seraph
    7. Throne (angel)
  5. Christian eschatology
    1. Antichrist
    2. Apocalyptic literature
    3. The Beast (Revelation)
    4. Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
    5. Rapture
    6. Great Tribulation
    7. Second Coming ( Level 4)
    8. Armageddon
    9. Millennialism
    10. Last Judgment
    11. New Earth (Christianity)
  6. Christian mission
    1. Great Commission
  7. Fall of man
    1. Original sin
    2. Seven deadly sins
    3. Mortal sin
    4. Venial sin
    5. Indulgence
    6. Contrition
    7. Repentance in Christianity
  8. Christian ethics
    1. Good works
    2. Modesty
    3. Christian pacifism
    4. Christian views on marriage
    5. Unconditional love
    6. Charity (Christian virtue)
    7. Agape
    8. Great Commandment
  9. Devil in Christianity
  10. Five solae
  11. Hell in Christianity
  12. Criticism of Christianity
  13. The gospel
  14. Grace in Christianity ( Level 4)
  15. Justification (theology)
  16. Kingdom of God (Christianity)
  17. Life of Jesus
    1. Chronology of Jesus
    2. Nativity of Jesus
    3. Ministry of Jesus
    4. Last Supper
    5. Crucifixion of Jesus
    6. Resurrection of Jesus
  18. Restorationism
  19. Sacred tradition
  20. Spiritual gift
  21. Trinity ( Level 4)
    1. God the Father
    2. God the Son
    3. Holy Spirit in Christianity

Denominations

This section contains 58 articles.

  1. Christian denomination
  2. Catholic Church ( Level 3)
    1. Celtic Christianity
    2. Eastern Catholic Churches ( Level 4)
    3. Pope ( Level 4)
    4. Hierarchy of the Catholic Church
    5. Roman Curia
    6. College of Cardinals
  3. Charismatic Christianity
  4. Eastern Christianity ( Level 4)
    1. Eastern Orthodox Church ( Level 3)
      1. Eastern Orthodoxy
      2. Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople
      3. Greek Orthodox Church
      4. Russian Orthodox Church ( Level 4)
    2. Oriental Orthodox Churches ( Level 4)
      1. Armenian Apostolic Church
      2. Coptic Orthodox Church ( Level 4)
      3. Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ( Level 4)
  5. Protestantism ( Level 3)
    1. Anabaptism
      1. Amish
      2. Schwarzenau Brethren
      3. Hutterites
      4. Mennonites
    2. Anglicanism ( Level 4)
      1. Church of England
        1. Archbishop of Canterbury
    3. Arminianism ( Level 4)
    4. Baptists ( Level 4)
      1. Free Will Baptist
      2. Southern Baptist Convention
    5. Black church
    6. Reformed Christianity ( Level 4)
      1. Congregationalism
      2. Continental Reformed Protestantism
      3. Presbyterianism
    7. Evangelicalism ( Level 4)
    8. Lutheranism ( Level 4)
    9. Mainline Protestant
    10. Methodism ( Level 4)
      1. United Methodist Church
      2. African Methodist Episcopal Church
    11. Moravian Church
    12. Pentecostalism ( Level 4)
    13. Quakers ( Level 4)
      1. Shakers
    14. Seventh-day Adventist Church ( Level 4)
  6. Nontrinitarianism ( Level 4)
    1. Arianism
    2. Jehovah's Witnesses ( Level 4)
    3. Mormonism ( Level 4)
      1. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
      2. Book of Mormon
    4. Socinianism
    5. Unitarianism ( Level 4)
      1. Unitarian Universalism
  7. World Mission Society Church of God

Practices

This section contains 43 articles.

  1. Christian culture
  2. Christian mysticism
    1. Hesychasm
  3. Christian prayer
    1. Apostles' Creed
    2. Jesus Prayer
    3. Lectio Divina
    4. Lord's Prayer ( Level 4)
    5. Nicene Creed
    6. Rosary
  4. Church (building) ( Level 4)
    1. Basilica
    2. Cathedral
    3. Chapel
  5. Christian monasticism
    1. Dominican Order
    2. Franciscans
    3. Order of Saint Augustine
    4. Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg)
    5. Jesuits
      1. Ignatian spirituality
    6. Rule of Saint Benedict
      1. Ora et labora
  6. Church service
    1. Christian liturgy
    2. Church music
    3. Mass in the Catholic Church
    4. Sermon
  7. Ecumenism ( Level 4)
  8. Liturgical year
  9. Sacrament
    1. Anointing of the sick
    2. Baptism ( Level 4)
    3. Confirmation
    4. Eucharist ( Level 4)
    5. Holy orders
    6. Sacrament of Penance
  10. Christian symbolism
    1. Alpha and Omega
    2. Chi Rho
    3. Christian cross
      1. Crucifix
    4. Ichthys

Judaism

This section contains 50 articles.

Islam

This section contains 103 articles.

Basics

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Islamic studies
  2. Glossary of Islam
  3. Muslim world
  4. Criticism of Islam
  5. Ibadah
  6. Imam ( Level 4)
  7. Mosque ( Level 4)
    1. Mihrab
    2. Minaret
    3. Minbar
    4. Muezzin
  8. Muslims

Texts

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Kutub al-Sittah
  2. Islamic holy books
  3. Sīrah
  4. Quran ( Level 3)
    1. Juz'
    2. Surah
    3. Āyah
    4. I'jaz
    5. Hafiz (Quran)
    6. Tajwid
    7. Tafsir
  5. Sunnah
    1. Hadith ( Level 4)

Schools

This section contains 30 articles.

  1. Islamic schools and branches ( Level 4)
  2. Sunni Islam ( Level 3)
    1. Salafi movement
    2. Atharism
    3. Hanafi school
    4. Shafi'i school
    5. Hanbali school
    6. Maliki school
    7. Ash'arism
    8. Maturidism
    9. Wahhabism
  3. Shia Islam ( Level 3)
    1. Twelve Imams
    2. Ja'fari school
    3. Alevism
    4. Isma'ilism
    5. Twelver Shi'ism
    6. Zaydism
  4. Sufism ( Level 4)
    1. Tariqa
    2. Mevlevi Order
    3. Shadhili
    4. Suhrawardiyya
    5. Bektashi Order
    6. Badawiyya
    7. Tijaniyyah
    8. Chishti Order
  5. Kharijites
    1. Ibadi Islam
  6. Mu'tazilism

Terms

This section contains 18 articles.

  1. Halal ( Level 4)
  2. Haram ( Level 4)
  3. Jihad
    1. Mujahideen
  4. Ummah
  5. Sharia ( Level 4)
    1. Fatwa
  6. Fiqh ( Level 4)
    1. Principles of Islamic jurisprudence
    2. Taqlid
    3. Ulama
    4. Madhhab
    5. Ahkam
    6. Sources of Sharia
      1. Ijma
      2. Qiyas
      3. Adat
      4. Istihsan

Beliefs

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Iman (Islam)
  2. Allah ( Level 4)
    1. Names of God in Islam
    2. Tawhid
  3. Prophets and messengers in Islam
  4. Angels in Islam
  5. Islamic eschatology
    1. Akhirah
    2. Jannah
    3. Jahannam
    4. Predestination in Islam
  6. Aqidah

Practices

This section contains 13 articles.

  1. Five Pillars of Islam ( Level 4)
    1. Shahada
    2. Salah
      1. Qibla
      2. Adhan
    3. Zakat
    4. Fasting in Islam
    5. Hajj ( Level 4)
      1. Black Stone
  2. Ritual purity in Islam
    1. Wudu
  3. Arba'in pilgrimage
  4. Bishwa Ijtema

Other

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Companions of the Prophet
    1. Rashidun
    2. The ten to whom Paradise was promised
    3. Ahl al-Bayt
    4. Wives of Muhammad

Eastern religions

This section contains 189 articles.

Basics

This section contains 29 articles.

Major religions

This section contains 8 articles.

  1. Indian religions
    1. Hinduism ( Level 3)
    2. Buddhism ( Level 3)
    3. Jainism ( Level 3)
    4. Sikhism ( Level 3)
  2. Taoism ( Level 3)
  3. Shinto ( Level 3)
  4. Manichaeism ( Level 4)

Common concepts

This section contains 16 articles.

  1. Ahimsa
  2. Dharma ( Level 4)
  3. Guru
  4. Karma ( Level 4)
  5. Mandala
  6. Moksha
  7. Om ( Level 4)
  8. Qi ( Level 4)
  9. Saṃsāra
  10. Śramaṇa
  11. Swastika ( Level 4)
  12. Yin and yang ( Level 4)
  13. Impermanence
  14. Anattā
  15. Śūnyatā
  16. Svabhava

Common practices

This section contains 5 articles.

  1. Bhajan
  2. Mantra ( Level 4)
  3. Tantra ( Level 4)
  4. Yoga ( Level 4)
  5. Phowa

Hinduism

This section contains 31 articles.

Buddhism

This section contains 105 articles.

Traditions

This section contains 24 articles.

  1. Mahayana ( Level 3)
    1. Chan Buddhism
    2. Pure Land Buddhism
      1. Amitābha
    3. Zen ( Level 4)
      1. Rinzai school
      2. Sōtō
  2. Theravada ( Level 3)
  3. Vajrayana ( Level 4)
    1. Tibetan Buddhism
      1. Dalai Lama
      2. Nyingma
      3. Kagyu
        1. Drukpa Kagyu
        2. Karma Kagyu
      4. Gelug
      5. Sakya
      6. Kadam (Tibetan Buddhism)
  4. Chinese Buddhism
  5. Hinayana
  6. Buddhism in the West
  7. Dzogchen
    1. Ground (Dzogchen)
  8. Mahamudra

Concepts

This section contains 44 articles.

  1. Bodhisattva
    1. Avalokiteśvara ( Level 4)
    2. Guanyin
  2. Four Noble Truths ( Level 4)
    1. Duḥkha
    2. Pratītyasamutpāda
    3. Nirodha
    4. Noble Eightfold Path
  3. Nirvana ( Level 4)
  4. Rebirth (Buddhism)
    1. Bardo
  5. Skandha
    1. Rūpa
    2. Vedanā
    3. Samjna (concept)
    4. Saṅkhāra
    5. Vijñāna
  6. Yana (Buddhism)
  7. Refuge in Buddhism
  8. Tathātā
  9. Buddha-nature
  10. Brahmavihara
    1. Maitrī
    2. Karuṇā
    3. Mudita
    4. Upekṣā
  11. Middle Way
  12. Three marks of existence
  13. Trikaya
    1. Dharmakāya
    2. Saṃbhogakāya
    3. Nirmāṇakāya
  14. Enlightenment in Buddhism
  15. Yidam
    1. Tara (Buddhism)
  16. Yab-Yum
  17. Tertön
  18. Terma (religion)
  19. Bodhicitta
  20. Rigpa
  21. Five Pure Lights
  22. Svasaṃvedana
  23. Rainbow body
  24. Sangha

Texts

This section contains 12 articles.

  1. Bardo Thodol
  2. Diamond Sutra ( Level 4)
  3. Jataka tales
  4. Lotus Sutra
  5. Pali Canon ( Level 4)
    1. Sutta Piṭaka
    2. Vinaya Piṭaka
    3. Abhidharma
  6. Prajnaparamita
  7. Tripiṭaka
  8. Longchen Nyingthig
  9. Seventeen tantras

Practices

This section contains 25 articles.

  1. Buddhist meditation
    1. Lotus position
    2. Zazen
    3. Samatha-vipassana
  2. Buddhist monasticism
    1. Bhikkhu
    2. Bhikkhunī
    3. Vinaya
  3. Butsudan
  4. Pāramitā
  5. Lojong
  6. Lamrim
  7. Ngöndro
  8. Tonglen
  9. Six Dharmas of Naropa
  10. Tummo
  11. Semde
  12. Longdé
  13. Menngagde
  14. Ganachakra
  15. Zhitro
  16. Trul khor
  17. Pointing-out instruction
  18. Dark retreat
  19. Dream yoga

Jainism

This section contains 6 articles.

  1. Pravachanasara
  2. Tattvartha Sutra
  3. Digambara
  4. Śvetāmbara
  5. Mount Meru
  6. Tirthankara

Other

This section contains 18 articles.

Sikhism

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Guru Granth Sahib ( Level 4)
  2. Golden Temple ( Level 4)
  3. Sikh gurus

Taoism

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Tao
    1. De (Chinese)
  2. Taoist diet
  3. Three Treasures (Taoism)
Books

This section contains 3 articles.

  1. Daozang
  2. Tao Te Ching ( Level 4)
  3. Zhuangzi (book) ( Level 4)

Shinto

This section contains 7 articles.

  1. Association of Shinto Shrines
  2. Ema (Shinto)
  3. Harae
  4. Kagura
  5. Kojiki ( Level 4)
  6. Misogi
  7. Shinto shrine

Bon

This section contains 1 article.

  1. Bon

Other religions

This section contains 79 articles.

Other religions: General

This section contains 26 articles.

Ancient religions

This section contains 23 articles.

Western esotericism

This section contains 12 articles.

New religious movements

This section contains 18 articles.

Mythology

This section contains 369 articles.

Mythology: General

This section contains 11 articles.

By culture and religion

This section contains 16 articles.

Abrahamic and Judaic mythology

This section contains 54 articles.

African mythology

This section contains 2 articles.

Australian aborigine mythology

This section contains 2 articles.

Canaanite mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

Carthaginian mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Celtic mythology

This section contains 6 articles.

Central Asian mythology

This section contains 3 articles.

Chinese mythology

This section contains 11 articles.

Egyptian mythology

This section contains 21 articles.

Germanic mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Greek and Roman mythology

This section contains 52 articles.

Hindu mythology

This section contains 25 articles.

Indo-Iranian mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Korean mythology

This section contains 1 article.

Mesopotamian mythology

This section contains 11 articles.

Native American mythology

This section contains 12 articles.

Norse mythology

This section contains 22 articles.

Polynesian mythology

This section contains 2 articles.

Shinto mythology

This section contains 5 articles.

Mythological creatures

This section contains 83 articles.

Legendary creatures

This section contains 78 articles.

Mythological places

This section contains 17 articles.

Mythological items

This section contains 7 articles.



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