10 Words Flashcards
Satori
Flash of enlightenment experienced as as result of non-dualistic thinking
Secular Buddhist
A modern western form of Buddhist founded by the British Buddhist scholar Stephen Batchelor
Claims Buddha never intended his beliefs to become a religious tradition
Siddhartha Gautama
The human who gave up their life of luxury in order to find out why people suffer and in finding the answer to becoming enlightened
Six paramitas
The six virtues developed as part of the bodhisattva path: generosity, morality, patience, effort, concentration
Six realms
Six realms within samsara: human, heavenly, titans, animal, hungry, ghost and hell
Skandhas
The five aggregated or heaps which make up all phenomena: physical form, feeling, perception, mental formulation and consciousness.
Social activism
Working and advocating for social justice so that no one in society faces discrimination or unjust treatment
Soto zen
A branch of japanese buddhist
Sramana
Ascetic groups which existed at the time of the Buddha. Rejected the religion of the Brahmins and some of their collective teachings
Sun yaya
Belief that all phenomena are interlinked. Nothing can exist independent or separately from all other phenomena