Buddha-śāsana

Buddha-śāsana (P. Buddha-sāsana; T. སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ་; C. 釋教), literally "message of the Buddha," refers the the teachings of the Buddha, in the sense of an institutional or historical set of teachings.

Buddha-sāsana is translated as "message of the Buddha," "dispensation of the Buddha," "teachings of the Buddha," etc.

Other traditional terms for Buddha's teachings are:

• dharmavinaya, the teaching and the discipline
• śāsana, "the dispensation"
• buddhadharma, the dharma of the Buddha
• buddhavacana, the word of the Buddha

Further information: sāsana

Sources

• Nyanatiloka Thera (2019), Nyanaponika Thera, ed., Buddhist Dictionary: Manual of Buddhist Terms and Doctrines, Pariyatti Publishing 
• སངས་རྒྱས་ཀྱི་བསྟན་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
• 佛教, Digital Dictionary of Buddhism