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What is Buddhism?
The Four Truths
The Eightfold Path

The Prajna Paramita Sutra(Heart Sutra),
The Heart Sutra Homepage
The Diamond Sutra
The Lotus Sutra

Basic Doctrines

The goal of Buddhism

Nirvana

Two descriptions of Nirvana: 1) nirvana with the substrate left(nirvana attained in this life), 2) nirvana without substrate (nirvana of the dead arahant)

Causality

Buddha declared, "That being present, this becomes; from the arising of that, this arises." and "that being absent, this does not become; from the cessation of that, this ceases."

One of the most important of the discourses the Buddha addressed to the monks is the "Discourse on Causal Relations" (Paccaya-sutta), in which he speaks of (1) causality(paticcasamppada) and (2) causally conditioned phenomena (paticcasamuppanna dhamma).

These two concepts, according to the Buddha, explain everything in this world, the individual things and the relations existing among them.