Buddhism Key Words Flashcards
Four sights
Old man, sick man, dead man and holy man
Asceticism
Giving up luxuries and not listening to bodies demands
Renunciation
Turning back on old life eg Buddha left everything when he went to find enlightenment
The middle way
Finding compromise between extreme asceticism and luxury. Buddha plucked strings of a lute
The three watches of the night
Realisations Buddha experienced when he achieved enlightenment through meditation: knowledge of all previous lives, Kama, the four noble truths
The four noble truths
Suffering exists
Cause of suffering is desire
Overcome desire through detachment
Cure suffering by following the eightfold path
3 main forms of mental suffering
- separation from someone or something you love
- contact with something you dislike
- not being able to achieve desires
Tanha
Thirst or craving
3 types of craving
Craving things to please senses
Craving to become something you’re not
Craving the non-existence or something
3 poisons
Pig- ignorance
Cockerel- greed
Snake- hate
Nibbana
Extinguish craving, and all thoughts which controlled by desires
Eightfold path
Ethics- right speech, action, livelihood
Meditation- right effort, mindfulness, concentration
Wisdom- right understanding, intention
3 marks of existence
Dukkha (suffering)
Anicca (impermanence)
Anatta (the ‘self’ is not fixed or permanent)
Vassa
Annual retreat lasting for 3 months that occurs in rainy season
Dukkha-dukkhata
Physical or emotional pain
Viparinama-dukkha
Change. Feeling after life changing event, miss old times or during good times when worry soon be over
Samkhara-dukkha
Attachment. Trying to hold on to things leading to subtle dissatisfaction with life
Anicca
Impermanence , everything changes
Living things
Non living things
Our minds
5 aggregates of a human
Form Sensation Perception Mental formations Consciousness
Nagasena
Monk who used analogy of a chariot to demonstrate 5 aggregated
Temple
Place where Buddhists come together to practice
Gompa
Hall or building where Tibetan Buddhists meditate
Stupa
Small building in monetary that sometimes contains holy relics
Shrine
Area with statue of Buddha or bodhisattva
Wesak
Theravada festival celebrating buddhas birth, enlightenment and death
3 refuges/jewels
Buddha
Dhamma
Sangha
Samsara
Cycle of birth death and rebirth
