Buddhism Flashcards
Buddha
A title given to someone who has achieved enlightenment; usually used to refer to Siddartha Gautama
Ascetic
Living a simple and strict lifestyle with few pleasures or possessions; someone who follows ascetic practices
Meditation
A practice of calling and focusing the mind, and reflecting deeply on a specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning
Four SIghts
Old age, illness, death and a holy man; these four sights led to the Buddha to leave his life of luxury in the palace
Jakata
The Jataka tales are popular stories about the lives of the Buddha
Dukkha
The first noble truth, there is suffering
Pali
The language of the earliest Buddhist scriptures
Sanskrit
The language used in the late Buddhist scriptures
Tanha Mojo
Craving (desiring or wanting something)
8fold path
Eight aspects that Buddhists practice and live by in order to achieve enlightenment
Threefold pathway
The Eightfold Path grouped into the three sections of ethics, meditation and wisdom
Ethics (sila)
A section of the Threefold Way that emphasizes the importance of skillful action as the basics for spiritual progress
Meditation(samadhi
A section of the Threefold Way that emphasizes the role of meditation in the process of spiritual development
Panna (wisdom
A section of the Threefold Way that deals with Buddhist approaches to understanding the nature of reality
Dependent arising
The idea that all things arise in dependence upon conditions
Samsara
The repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth
Kamma
A persons actions; the idea that skillful actions result in happiness and unskillful ones in suffering
Anicca
Impermanence, everything changes, nothing lasts, all experience is in a constant state of flux, everything in a constant of birth and death
Anatta
Non-self, not-self, there is no self, no permanent soul, no permanent being that is you. There is no “I” and “you” aren’t sitting here
Dukkhaa
Dissatisfaction, dis-ease, striving, suffering
Mahayana
An umbrella term to describe some later Buddhist traditions, including Pure Land Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism
Gompa
A hall or building where Tibetan Buddhists meditate
Stupa
A small building in a monastery that sometimes contains holy relics
Shine
An area with a statice of a Buddha or Bodhisattave, which provides Buddhists with a focal point for meditation and devotion
Virhara (monastery)
A place where Buddhist monks and nuns live
Puja
Worship
Chanting
Reciting from the buddhist scriptures
Mala
Prayer beeds that are used to count the number of recitations in a mantra
Mantra
A short sequence of sacred syllables
Meditation
A practice of calming and focusing the mind and reflecting deeply on specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning.
Wesak
A therevada festival that celebrates the buddhas life
Paranirvana day
A mahayana festival that commemorates the Buddhas passsing away and reminds people of annica
