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Religion 1006- Buddhism
Religion 1006- Buddism review guide
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2010

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sources of epistemology
Definition

Buddha's teachings

Buddha's life experience

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wealth of Buddha's teachings
Definition
45 years
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problems with Buddha's teachings
Definition

he didn't write them

resisted philosophy

 

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four noble truths
Definition

there is suffering

case of suffering is selfish craving

there is a cure, which is to end tanha

the method is the eightfold path

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dukkha
Definition
suffering
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tanha
Definition

selfish craving

attachment

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Budh
Definition
awakened
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Buddha
Definition
the enlightened one/the awakened one
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two main life characteristics of Buddha
Definition

becoming aware of suffering

enlightenment

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birth of Buddha
Definition

prince in northern India

560 BCDE

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four passing sights
Definition

old man

diseased man

dead man

an ascetic

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great going forth
Definition

study

austerities

practice

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enlightenment process
Definition
meditation under the Bo/Bohdi tree
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stages in the buddha's life
Definition

birth/early life

discontentment and four passing sights

great going forth

enlightenment process

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five skandas
Definition

body, sensations, thoughts, feelings, general consciousness

painful, where we feel suffering

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anatta
Definition

self

Buddha denied that the soul was enternal

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atman
Definition
soul
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states of consciousness
Definition

Dukkha

Tanha

three poisons

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Dukkha
Definition
suffering
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three types of Dhukka
Definition

ordinary physical or mental pain

due to change

due to impermanence of all conditioned phenomena

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Tanha
Definition
desire/all forms of selfish craving
Term
three poisons
Definition

delusion

craving

hostility

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teleology (purpose)
Definition

put an end to dukkha (suffering)

nirvana

become arhat or buddha

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Nirvana
Definition

cessation of tanha (desires)

life's goal

literally- "to extinguish, to be unbound, as a fire without fuel"

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eightfold path
Definition

preliminary

right knowledge

right aspiration

right speech

right behavior

right livelihood

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