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Buddhism rels 105
Buddhism vocab
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 3
04/28/2011

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Term
Buddha/Siddhartha Gautma or Shakyamuni
Definition
HE IS NOT A GOD- he is a pathfinder/founder
history:
- born prince
renunsian, wandering=opportunity
-makes middle path to solve suffering
-vows to sit until enlightened
-Spiritual awakening= everything is always changing and impermenent.
-Early buddha=not divine
Term
Vipassana
Definition
insight meditation
Term
Dukkha:
Definition
-suffering exsists
reindanation is bad, nothing in the world is permanently satisfactory
origin to dukkha: everything in the world is interdependent
Term
Middle Path/ Noble 8 Fold Path has 3 disciplines:
Definition
- ethical conduct
-mental discipline
-wisdom or understanding
Term
Sanga:
Definition
The buddhist community in the theravada tradition- a community of monks/nuns
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