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Religion 1002
Buddhism
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/22/2008

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4 Types of Questions
Definition
presuppositions, cannot be answered, they lead to storytelling, and
they are distracting
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Dhamma
Definition
Pali word for dharma, teachings, the way, how things are (no core, marked by Three Marks of Existence)
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Samadhi
Definition
one pointedness of mind
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Citta
Definition
ego aspect of mind
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Manas
Definition
mind/thinking capacity
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Arahant
Definition
worthy and accomplished, free from all snares, laid down the burden, attained nirvana
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Bhikku
Definition
full ordained male Buddhist monastic
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Prajna
Definition
wisdom used to extinguish afflictions and bring about enlightenment
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Sunyata
Definition
emptiness, things are devoid of a core or innate essence
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Ahimsa
Definition
non-violence
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Sila
Definition
moral discipline, virtue
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Kalyanamitta
Definition
spiritual friendship/encouraging friendship
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Ariyamagga
Definition
Eightfold noble path
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Samatha
Definition
calm abiding, a meditation practice designed to improve voluntary attention, serenity
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Vipassana
Definition
insight into the impermanent nature (anicca) of mind and body
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Bodhi
Definition
awakening
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Ehi passika
Definition
come and see, the idea that a teaching should be tested out for oneself
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Bodhisattva
Definition
In Theravada Buddhism: a being whose aim it is to become fully enlightened; In Mahayana Buddhism: a being who compassionately refrains from entering nirvana to save others
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Four Great Sights
Definition
Old man, diseased man, corpse, mendicant
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Four Great Events
Definition
Birth, Awakening, Teaching, Death
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Four Noble Truths
Definition
There is suffering, There is the origin of suffering, There is the cessasion of suffering, The way to the cessation of suffering
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Three Main Schools
Definition
Theravada (Southeast Asia [Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma]), conservative tradition, 250 BCE, Pali Canon, (sutta usually considered Pali), Mahayana (East Asia), turn of the century to Middle Ages, Chinese Canon, sutras, Vajrayana (Tibet) Sixth to twelth centuries, “Diamond Vehicle”, Tibetan Canon
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Eightfold Path
Definition
Sound View, Sound Inclination, Sound Speech, Sound Action, Sound Livelihood, Sound Effort, Sound Awareness, Sound Concentration
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Upaya
Definition
skillful means for bringing a practicioner to Ultimate Reality
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Khandas
Definition

bulk of what we call person, “five existential functions”, appearance, feeling, perception, conceptual fabrication, cognizance, or, form, sensation, perception, mental formation, and consciousness

 

rupa, vedana, samjna, samskaras, vijnana

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Sukkha
Definition
bliss, ease, happiness
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Three Marks of Existence
Definition
Anicca (impermanance), Dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness), Annata (no permanent essence/no-Self)
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Paticca Samupada
Definition
Dependent arising, phenomena rise together in a mutally dependent web of cause and effect
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Avijja
Definition
Ignorance
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Tanha
Definition
Desire, the origin of suffering
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Proper Range
Definition
the field within which human life is properly lived, scope given by immediate experience (our only real way of knowing the world)
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The Buddha
Definition
480 - 400 BCE
Name: Siddartha Gautama
Clan Name: Shakya
Born: Lumbini
Father: King Suddohana
Wife: Yashodara
Leaves palace: At 29
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