The basics

These are the basic tenets of Buddhism.

The four noble truths

1. Suffering is everywhere
2.There is a cause of suffering
3.There is liberation from suffering
4. Liberation is the eightfold path

The eightfold path
1.Right knowledge
2.Right thought
3. Right speech
4. Right conduct
5. Right livelihood
6. Right effort
7.Right recollection
8. Right absorption

The three bodies of Buddha
1. The pure empty body
2. The bliss body of mutual interdependence
3. The truth body

The four abodes
1. Loving kindness
2. Compassion
3. Joy in the liberation of others
4. Equanimity or Impartiality

The six perfections
1. Giving
2. Morality
3. Forbearance
4. Vitality
5. Focused meditation
6. Wisdom

The four additional perfections
1. Skillful means
2. Resolve
3. Strength
4. Knowledge

The sixteen Bodhisattva precepts

Refuge in the three treasures
1. Buddha
2. Bodhidharma
3. Sangha

The three pure precepts
1. To maintain the precepts
2. To practice all good Dharma's
3. To save the many beings

The ten grave precepts
1. Not to kill
2. Not to steal
3. Not to misuse sex
4. Not to speak falsely
5. Not to give or take drugs
6. Not to discuss faults of others
7. Not to praise myself while abusing others
8. Not to spare the Dharma assets
9. Not to indulge in anger
10. Not to defame the three treasures

The three poisons
1. Anger
2. Greed
3. Ignorance

The four Bodhisattva vows
1. To save the many beings
2. To abandon the three poisons
3. To wake to the countless teachings
4. To embody the way of Buddha