A source-scoped foundation distinguishing Buddhist streams, selected canonical teachings, and different textual collections.
This limited foundation introduces selected classifications, textual collections and attributed teachings. It does not offer an exhaustive global taxonomy or explain individual conduct from religious identity.
The full dossier remains incomplete and Needs review. Religious teaching, interpretation, institutional policy and measured outcomes are different kinds of evidence.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy situates Buddhist philosophical development in South Asia and records disagreement over the historical Buddha’s dates. This page therefore uses ancient South Asian origins without a precise founding year. Source [1], introduction and “Dates”.
Its discussion of nirvana distinguishes liberation during life from discussion of death. Awakening and nirvana are related concepts requiring explanation rather than interchangeable labels. Source [1], “Two Kinds of Nirvana and the Undetermined Questions”. This is scholarly interpretation of transmitted texts.
Harvard’s Pluralism Project describes Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana streams, treating Vajrayana in this account as a form of Mahayana. It warns against identifying streams too rigidly with particular ideas or geographic areas. Source [2], opening and final paragraphs.
This is an introductory classification, not three equivalent, entirely separate institutions. More detailed schools and monastic lineages require their own sources.
In Thanissaro Bhikkhu’s translation of SN 56:11, the four truths concern stress or suffering, its origination in craving, its cessation, and the path leading to cessation. The text enumerates the Noble Eightfold Path. Source [3], four-truth passages.
Its later awakening narrative includes devas, Maras and Brahmas. Non-theistic must not be taken to mean absence of supernatural beings. This foundation omits a broad creator-deity classification pending a precise source. Source [3], awakening and devas passages. These are attributed scriptural teachings, not empirical verification or a verbatim historical transcript.
SN 22:59 describes form, feeling, perception, fabrications and consciousness as not self and questions whether these aggregates are constant or inconstant. Source [4], aggregate passages and subsequent questions.
Retain this specified translation and textual formulation rather than asserting one uncontested interpretation across Buddhism or equating not-self with nihilism.
The IEP identifies its use of the Pali Sutta Pitaka and Nikayas. The two discourses above are inspected examples, not a complete survey of the Pali canon. Source [1], “Sources”.
84000 describes Kangyur as translated texts regarded as Buddha-word and Tengyur as translated explanatory treatises by Indian Buddhist masters. Source [5], the two introductory definitions. This concerns a particular canonical tradition; attribution as Buddha-word is not independent proof of historical authorship.
BDK America describes translating the Chinese-language Taisho Buddhist canon into English. Source [6], “The BDK English Tripitaka Project”. This verifies the named collection and project, not translation completion or identical authority across all communities.
Claims about peaceful coexistence, educational achievement or conflicts in Sri Lanka and Myanmar require separate empirical cases. The original broad outcomes paragraph is not retained. Madhyamaka, Yogacara and detailed lineage descriptions also remain research leads.
Documenting a religious report establishes its content, not its supernatural truth. Missing evidence does not prove falsity, and religious identity does not establish automatically peaceful or violent conduct.
The sources support a limited introduction to overlapping traditions, selected teachings and different textual collections. They do not establish one identical Buddhism practiced by everyone or a comprehensive account of historical outcomes.
Individual characters may express different beliefs, practices and interpretations. No universal moral score, automatic behavior or new gameplay mechanic is approved by this foundation.
October 25, 2026 — Gemini via William supplied the draft. Rowan inspected the six linked sources, narrowed chronology and classification claims, and separated teaching from outcomes. Published with William’s authorization. Full dossier incomplete / Needs review.
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