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Buddhism
Buddhism Terms
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 2
03/02/2016

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three watches
Definition
historical buddha's awakening process (own lives, all lives, stop karma) [Harvey Intro]
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huayen/kegon
Definition
Mahayana Buddhists in China,"flower ornament sutra", find self-Buddha, interelation of things, basis of zen [Harvey Mahayana philosophies]
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stupa/cetiya
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burial bound for relics, bodhi tree
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tripitaka/tipitaka
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"three baskets" of buddhist teachings, (monastic discipline, discourses, further teachigns)
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indra's net
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mahayana/huayan methaphor on structure of reality (interconnected, self-reflecting/affecting, no permanent self)
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four visions
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4 things gotoma sees before becoming buddha (old man, sick man, dead man, content/poor monk) [Harvey Intro]
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dana-paramita
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karmic fruitfulness
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jataka
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story of buddha
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alara/udaka
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ox/dog ascetics
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patimokka
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monastic code, means "bond"
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rupa-avacara
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physical reality/buddhist cosmos (16 levels of heaven from pure-form, korean soap opera, to levels of hell) [lectures, harvey's Early Buddhist Teachings section]
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mount sumeru
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sacred highest peek mountain, describes buddhist time
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khanda/skandha
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5 forces that make a person (rupa/form, vedana/emotion, sanna/labels, sankhara/narrative, vinana/conscious-personality) [Harvey, Early Buddhist Teachings]
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bhikkhuni
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nuns, part of sangha
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vinaya
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monastic rules
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preta/peta
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hungry ghost (realm of suffering)
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second noble truth
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craving causes suffering, Dukkham Samudayum
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zen
Definition
japanese school, meditation
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"do not steal"
Definition
one of sila (precepts), "Abuse of Possessions"
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arahat
Definition
one step lower than bodhisattva, awakened w/ knowledge
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bodhisattva
Definition
one step lower than buddha, awakened but on earth to teach (6 parami)
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rupa
Definition
form/senses, memory
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vedana
Definition
emotions
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sanna
Definition
quality-marker, label
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sankhara
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mental formations, narratives, ideas
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vinana
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consciousness/personality
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samsara
Definition
cycle of rebirth
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karma
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mechanism of cause-effect
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maggam
Definition
noble 8 fold path
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5 sila
Definition
precepts, refrain from abuse of (speech, possessions, intoxicants, violence, sex)
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samadhi
Definition
awareness with concentration/meditation
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panna
Definition
wisdom
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