Dharma

Reconciliation: affirmed Belief -> contested Doctrine concept (Dharma).

Depicts the exact narrative event Buddhist tradition names as the origin of the dharma itself, the Buddha's first sermon at Sarnath, rather than a generic seated Buddha image.

Hindu Dharma Ethics is the specifically Hindu ethical application of the wider pan Indic dharma concept that Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism each develop differently.

Dharma is held in Advaita, with ritual and duty belonging to the level of practice that prepares the mind for knowledge rather than producing liberation themselves.

Dharma is held in Dvaita.

Dharma is held in Gaudiya Vaishnavism, and the tradition places devotion above the ordinary duties as the eternal function of the soul.

Dharma is held in the Gelug school in the Mahayana sense, with the tantras counted among the Buddha's word.

Dharma is held in ISKCON, with devotional service presented as the eternal function of the soul and the ordinary duties as secondary to it.

Dharma is held in Jodo Shinshu.

Dharma is held in the Jonang school in the Mahayana sense.

Dharma is held in the Kagyu school in the Mahayana sense, with the tantras counted among the Buddha's word.

Dharma is held in the Karma Kagyu school in the Mahayana sense.

Dharma is held in Kashmir Shaivism.

Dharma is held in Lingayatism, and the tradition recast it around work: labour honestly done and shared is treated as worship rather than as a lesser alternative to it.

Dharma is held in Madhyamaka in the Mahayana sense, and the school's technical work is done on dharmas in the plural, the constituents it argues have no own-being.

Dharma in Mahayana carries the double sense the earlier tradition gave it, the teaching and the order of things, alongside the technical use of dharmas as the constituents whose emptiness the tradition argues for.

Dharma is held in the Nath tradition, with the renunciant's discipline standing above the householder's obligations.

Dharma is held in Nichiren Buddhism, and the school's claim is about which part of it is efficacious now: the Lotus Sutra alone, in the age the school holds the world to be in.

Dharma is held in Nichiren Shoshu, with the Lotus Sutra as the only efficacious teaching for the present age and Nichiren's own writings read as its authoritative interpretation.

Dharma is held in the Nyingma school in the Mahayana sense, and the school's ninefold arrangement of vehicles is its own account of how the whole of it fits together.

Dharma is held in the Pure Land schools, and the tradition's claim is about which part of it remains practicable now rather than about what it contains.

The Mimamsa Sutra opens by naming this its whole subject: athato dharma jijnasa.

Dharma is held in the Rinzai school, together with the Zen claim that it passes mind to mind rather than through formulation alone.

Dharma is held in the Sakya school in the Mahayana sense.

Dharma is held in Samkhya as one of the dispositions of the intellect, alongside its opposite, and so as a property of nature rather than of the self.

Dharma is held across the Shaiva schools.

Dharma is held across the Shakta traditions.

Dharma is held in Shingon, and Kukai's ranking of the teachings places the esoteric teaching above the exoteric as the dharma preached by the cosmic Buddha in his own person rather than adapted to an audience.

Dharma is held in Shri Vidya, and the tradition has been carried largely by householders observing brahminical practice alongside it.

Dharma is central in Smartism, which takes its name from the remembered texts that set out household and ritual duty.

Dharma is held in Soka Gakkai, with the Lotus Sutra as the teaching for the present age and Nichiren's writings as its interpretation.

Dharma is held in the Soto school, and Dogen's writing is unusual among Zen literature for the weight it places on doctrinal exposition alongside the claim of a transmission outside the scriptures.

Dharma is held in Sri Vaishnavism, and ritual obligation remains binding on the qualified rather than being superseded by devotion.

Dharma is held in Tendai, and the school inherits the Tiantai classification of the teachings as one dharma delivered in stages.

Dhamma in Theravada names both the Buddha's teaching and the order of things that teaching describes, and the Pali canon is the tradition's record of it.

Dharma is held in Tiantai, and the school's classification of the teachings is an account of how the whole of it is one dharma delivered in stages.

Dharma is held across the Tibetan schools in the Mahayana sense, with the tantras counted among the Buddha's word.

Dharma is held across the Vaishnava schools, and the Bhagavad Gita's treatment of duty performed without attachment to its fruits is the current's most widely quoted statement of it.

Dharma is held in Vajrayana in the Mahayana sense, with the tantras counted among the Buddha's word rather than beside it.

Dharma is held in Vishishtadvaita, and the school keeps ritual obligation binding on the qualified rather than superseding it.

Zen holds the dharma and holds with it that the dharma is not finally captured in doctrinal formulation. The school's self-description as a transmission outside the scriptures is itself a claim about what the dharma is and how it passes, not a refusal to make claims.

Within India the work of rta passed gradually to dharma, which carried cosmic order into law and personal duty