Buddhism beliefs Flashcards
Anatta
No fixed self, people change in the course of their lives, denial of a real or permanent self
Anicca
Impermanence, instability, not permanent
Buddha
An awakened or enlightened person
Buddhahood
Enlightenment
Buddha - nature
In Mahayana Buddhism, the fundamental nature of all beings, all beings can attain Buddhahood
Karuna
Compassion, part of the spiritual path
Consciousness
The fifth of the Five Aggregates - awareness of something without or before recognition
Dependent arising
Paticcasamupada. The belief that everything in existence is because other things are. Everything is interconnected and that everyone affects everyone else.
Dhamma/dharma
Universal law, ultimate truth, the teaching of the Buddha.
Dukkha
Suffering, everything leads to suffering
Eightfold Path
The path to Nirvana. Right views, right intention, right speech, right cation, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration.
Energy
One of the six perfections, it relates to making a courageous effort to attain enlightenment.
Enlightenment
Wisdom and escaping the painful cycle of rebirth
Sila
Ethics, moral conduct
The Five Aggregates
Form, sensation, perception, mental formation and consciousness. The idea that one’s being composed of these five factors.
The Five Moral Precepts
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
Form
The first of the Five Aggregates. It refers to matter, to the sense of organs and the objects of their experience.
The Four Noble Truths
Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha and Magga (there is suffering, the cause of suffering, the end of suffering and the path to the end of suffering).
The Four Sights
Gautama’s four encounters with an ill man, an old man, a dead man and a holy man
Generosity
One of the six perfections. The selfless desire to benefit others without expecting an award.
Greed
One of the Three Poisons, the attachment to materialistic things, sensual desire
Hate
Another one of the Three Poisons, wishing others harm
Ignorance
The last of the Three Poisons, the inability to see things as they really are
Jataka
The Jataka Tales are stories about the previous lives of the Buddha.
Kamma
Deliberate actions that affect the believers’ circumstances in this and future lives, they cause an affect
Metta
Loving kindness. A pure love which is not possessive
Magga
The Eightfold Path. It leads to freedom from suffering (The Fourth Noble Truth).
Morality
One of the six perfections. It entails following the five moral precepts.
Nibbana
To reach the state of perfect peace where the individual experiences liberation from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
Nirvana
The Sanskrit form of Nibbana
Panna
Insight to the true nature of reality
Patience
One of the six perfections.
Perception
The third of the Five Aggregates. The ability to distinguish the difference between different objects that we experience through our senses.
Rebirth
This refers to when a person dies they are reborn and this process of death and rebirth continues until Nibbana is attained.
Samudaya
The causes of suffering (The Second Noble Truth)
Sensation
The second of the Five Aggregates. It is about the feelings that arise from our sense organs making contact with their objects.
The six perfections
Guides in Mahayana Buddhism to lead one into Enlightenment.
The Threefold way
The three divisions of the Eightfold Path into ethics, meditation and wisdom
The Three Poisons
Ignorance, greed and hate
The Three Refuges
Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha
The Three Marks of Existence
dukkha, anicca and anatta - the truth of existence
