Buddhism Flashcards
Buddhist meditation is an invitation to turn one’s awareness away from the world of activity that usually preoccupies us to the inner experience of thoughts, feelings and perceptions.
Meditation
Buddhists believe that human life is a cycle of suffering and rebirth, but that if one achieves a state of enlightenment (nirvana), it is possible to escape this cycle forever. Siddhartha Gautama was the first person to reach this state of enlightenment and was, and is still today, known as the Buddha
Enlightenment
Nirvana, the state to which all Buddhists aspire, is the cessation of desire and hence the end of suffering. Nirvana in Sanskrit means “the blowing out.” It is understood as the extinguishment of the flame of personal desire, the quenching of the fire of life.
Nirvana
right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration. The expression “middle way” refers to the Buddhist understanding of practical life, avoiding the extremes of self-denial and self-indulgence, as well as the view of reality that avoids the extreme positions of eternalism and annihilationism.
Eightfold Path/Middle Way
karma refers to the idea that intentional actions have consequences for the agent, in this life and in future lives; in fact, it is karma that leads to rebirth.
Karma
the doctrine, the universal truth common to all individuals at all times, proclaimed by the Buddha.
Dharma
They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering. More simply put, suffering exists; it has a cause; it has an end; and it has a cause to bring about its end.
Four Noble Truths
spreading teachings that they believe are universally applicable in all times and places
Missionaries
the Buddhist community; it is the men, women and children who follow the teachings of the Buddha.
Sangha
Refrain from taking life
Five Precepts
Refrain from taking what is not given.
Five Precepts
Refrain from wrong speech.
Five Precepts
Refrain from intoxicants that cloud the mind.
Five Precepts
Refrain from intoxicants that cloud the mind.
Five Precepts
Buddhists believe that when someone dies, they will be reborn again as something else. What they are reborn as depends on their actions in their previous life (kamma ). The cycle of rebirth is called samsara and it is an ongoing cycle of life, death and rebirth.
Reincarnation
is the idea that humans have no soul or self. The Buddha taught that people have no soul because nothing is permanent and everything changes.
Annata
the Triratna comprises the Buddha, the dharma (doctrine, or teaching), and the sangha (the monastic order, or community).
Triple Jewel
bodhisattva, (Sanskrit), Pali bodhisatta (“one whose goal is awakening”), in Buddhism, one who seeks awakening (bodhi)—hence, an individual on the path to becoming a buddha
Bodhisatta
A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism.
Monasteries
Asalha Puja, known as Dharma (Pali, Dhamma) Day in English, commemorates the Buddha’s first teaching.
Dharma Day
“Vesak”, the Day of the Full Moon in the month of May, is the most sacred day to millions of Buddhists around the world. It was on the Day of Vesak two and a half millennia ago, in the year 623 B.C., that the Buddha was born
Buddha Day (Wesak):
The Tripitaka (in Sanskrit, meaning “Three Baskets”), or Daejanggyeong in Korean, refers to the collection of Buddhist scriptures, or Buddhist canon, that relate to discourses with the Buddha (Sutta-pitaka), regulations of monastic life (Vinaya-pitaka), and commentaries on the sutras by renowned monks and scholars
Tripitaka
Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
Dalai Lama
a title given by the Tibetan people to the foremost spiritual leader of the Gelug or “Yellow Hat” school of Tibetan Buddhism, the newest and most dominant of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
