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| founded by Vardhamana Mahavira, everything in the universe has a soul, did not follow caste and jati system, individual souls participate equally in universal reality |
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| non-violence to all living things |
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| brahmins, kshatriyas, vaishyas, sudras, untouchables |
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| landless peasants and surfs |
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| people who did unclean jobs |
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| what were castes divided into? |
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| Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha |
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| pursuit of well being and prosperity |
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| the ruling family of the classical Persian empire |
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| universal soul, or absolute reality, that Hindus believe fills all space and time. |
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| "completion of the vedas" a school of classical Indian thought that offered Hindus mystical experience and a belief in the underlying unity of all reality |
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| a major world religion based on the teachings of the Buddha that emphasized putting an end to desire and being compassionate to all creatures |
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| "The blowing out" a kind of everlasting peace or end of the suffering achieved through perfection of wisdom and compassion |
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| the pursuit of a religious life of penance, prayer, and meditation, either alone or in a community of other seekers |
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| an indo-European people from Central Asia who conquered much of northwest India and western parts of the Ganges Basin and constructed an empire that also encompasses Afghanistan and parts of central asia |
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| "teachings of the elders" one of two main branches of Buddhism that arose just before the common era. closer of the two branches to Buddha's original version |
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| "the greater vehicle to salvation" one of the two main branches of Buddhism, a more popularized version of Buddhist belief that attempted to make Buddha into a god and developed the notion of bodhisattva |
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| a loving and ever compassionate "saint" who has postponed his or her own attainment of nirvana to help others find salvation through liberation from birth and rebirth |
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| the process by which indian ideas spread into and influenced many southeast asian societies, a mixing of Indian with indigenous ideas |
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