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Buddhism beliefs Flashcards

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Anatta

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No fixed self, people change in the course of their lives, denial of a real or permanent self

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Anicca

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Impermanence, instability, not permanent

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Buddha

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An awakened or enlightened person

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Buddhahood

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Enlightenment

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Buddha - nature

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In Mahayana Buddhism, the fundamental nature of all beings, all beings can attain Buddhahood

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Karuna

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Compassion, part of the spiritual path

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Consciousness

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The fifth of the Five Aggregates - awareness of something without or before recognition

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Dependent arising

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Paticcasamupada. The belief that everything in existence is because other things are. Everything is interconnected and that everyone affects everyone else.

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Dhamma/dharma

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Universal law, ultimate truth, the teaching of the Buddha.

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Dukkha

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Suffering, everything leads to suffering

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Eightfold Path

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The path to Nirvana. Right views, right intention, right speech, right cation, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration.

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Energy

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One of the six perfections, it relates to making a courageous effort to attain enlightenment.

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Enlightenment

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Wisdom and escaping the painful cycle of rebirth

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Sila

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Ethics, moral conduct

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The Five Aggregates

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Form, sensation, perception, mental formation and consciousness. The idea that one’s being composed of these five factors.

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The Five Moral Precepts

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To not kill any living being, refrain from stealing, refrain from wrongful sexual activities, refrain from lying, refrain from taking drugs and alcohol that cloud the mind

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Form

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The first of the Five Aggregates. It refers to matter, to the sense of organs and the objects of their experience.

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The Four Noble Truths

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Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha and Magga (there is suffering, the cause of suffering, the end of suffering and the path to the end of suffering).

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The Four Sights

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Gautama’s four encounters with an ill man, an old man, a dead man and a holy man

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Generosity

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One of the six perfections. The selfless desire to benefit others without expecting an award.

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Greed

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One of the Three Poisons, the attachment to materialistic things, sensual desire

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Hate

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Another one of the Three Poisons, wishing others harm

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Ignorance

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The last of the Three Poisons, the inability to see things as they really are

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Jataka

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The Jataka Tales are stories about the previous lives of the Buddha.

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Kamma

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Deliberate actions that affect the believers’ circumstances in this and future lives, they cause an affect

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Metta

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Loving kindness. A pure love which is not possessive

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Magga

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The Eightfold Path. It leads to freedom from suffering (The Fourth Noble Truth).

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Morality

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One of the six perfections. It entails following the five moral precepts.

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Nibbana

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To reach the state of perfect peace where the individual experiences liberation from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.

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Nirvana

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The Sanskrit form of Nibbana

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Panna

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Insight to the true nature of reality

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Patience

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One of the six perfections.

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Perception

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The third of the Five Aggregates. The ability to distinguish the difference between different objects that we experience through our senses.

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Rebirth

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This refers to when a person dies they are reborn and this process of death and rebirth continues until Nibbana is attained.

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Samudaya

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The causes of suffering (The Second Noble Truth)

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Sensation

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The second of the Five Aggregates. It is about the feelings that arise from our sense organs making contact with their objects.

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The six perfections

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Guides in Mahayana Buddhism to lead one into Enlightenment.

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The Threefold way

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

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The Three Poisons

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Ignorance, greed and hate

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The Three Refuges

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Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha

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The Three Marks of Existence

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dukkha, anicca and anatta - the truth of existence

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