Buddhism

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Buddha

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A title given to someone who has achieved enlightenment; usually used to refer to Siddartha Gautama

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Ascetic

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Living a simple and strict lifestyle with few pleasures or possessions; someone who follows ascetic practices

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Meditation

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A practice of calling and focusing the mind, and reflecting deeply on a specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning

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Four SIghts

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Old age, illness, death and a holy man; these four sights led to the Buddha to leave his life of luxury in the palace

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Jakata

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The Jataka tales are popular stories about the lives of the Buddha

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Dukkha

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The first noble truth, there is suffering

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Pali

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The language of the earliest Buddhist scriptures

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Sanskrit

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The language used in the late Buddhist scriptures

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Tanha Mojo

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Craving (desiring or wanting something)

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8fold path

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Eight aspects that Buddhists practice and live by in order to achieve enlightenment

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Threefold pathway

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The Eightfold Path grouped into the three sections of ethics, meditation and wisdom

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Ethics (sila)

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A section of the Threefold Way that emphasizes the importance of skillful action as the basics for spiritual progress

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Meditation(samadhi

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A section of the Threefold Way that emphasizes the role of meditation in the process of spiritual development

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Panna (wisdom

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A section of the Threefold Way that deals with Buddhist approaches to understanding the nature of reality

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Dependent arising

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The idea that all things arise in dependence upon conditions

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Samsara

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The repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth

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Kamma

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A persons actions; the idea that skillful actions result in happiness and unskillful ones in suffering

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Anicca

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Impermanence, everything changes, nothing lasts, all experience is in a constant state of flux, everything in a constant of birth and death

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Anatta

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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

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Dukkhaa

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Dissatisfaction, dis-ease, striving, suffering

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Mahayana

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An umbrella term to describe some later Buddhist traditions, including Pure Land Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism

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Gompa

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A hall or building where Tibetan Buddhists meditate

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Stupa

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A small building in a monastery that sometimes contains holy relics

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Shine

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An area with a statice of a Buddha or Bodhisattave, which provides Buddhists with a focal point for meditation and devotion

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Virhara (monastery)

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A place where Buddhist monks and nuns live

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Puja

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Worship

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Chanting

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Reciting from the buddhist scriptures

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Mala

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Prayer beeds that are used to count the number of recitations in a mantra

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Mantra

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A short sequence of sacred syllables

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Meditation

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A practice of calming and focusing the mind and reflecting deeply on specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning.

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Wesak

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A therevada festival that celebrates the buddhas life

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Paranirvana day

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A mahayana festival that commemorates the Buddhas passsing away and reminds people of annica