Ethics Paper 1 Buddhist Beliefs Flashcards
To study and know these off by heart
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What are the 3 Poisons?
These are causes of Dukkha (Suffering) that affect all human beings.
Ignorance, Greed and Hate
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What does Dependent Arising mean?
The belief that everything exists because other things do; everything is interconnected and everyone affects everyone else. (Paticcasamuppada)
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What is Dukkha?
Belief that all life includes suffering and unsatisfactoriness(Belief that there is no fixed self/no soul and also 1 of the 3 marks of existance)
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What are the 4 Sights?
Teachings from the Jakarta Tales (075) about Siddharta Gautama’s experiences of sick man,old man, dead man and holy man
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What is an Arhat?
An Arhat is a perfected person.
In Therevada Buddhism this is a term for a person who has become enlightened.
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What is Buddhahood?
Buddhahood means reaching elightenment
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What is the 8 Fold Path?
The 4th Noble Truth. Known as the middle way. It includes the way to wisdom; mental training and the way of morality. 8 stages to be practised simultaneously.
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What are the 8 stages of the 8 Fold Path?
Right Understanding
Right Intention
These 2 are wisdom
Right Speech
Right Action
Right Livelihood
These 3 are ethics
Right Effort
Right Concentration
Right Mindfulness
These 3 are meditation
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What is Zen?
Practice of Meditation -
Key Ingredient: ……. true inner nature + co
Zen is a school of Buddhism that emphasizes the practice of meditation as the key ingredient to awakening one’s inner nature, compassion, and wisdom.
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What are the 3 Marks of Existence?
Impermanence (Anicca)
Suffering (Dukkha)
No self /no soul (Anatta)
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What is the 3 Fold Way?
The 3 divisions of the 8 Fold Path; Ethics, meditation and wisdom
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What is Anicca?
Impermanence (the belief that nothing is permanent and is one of the 3 marks of existence)
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What is Anatta?
The belief that there is no fixed self/no soul (One of the 3 marks of existance
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What is the PureLand?
Focuses on chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha (This is the dominant form of Buddhism in Japan)
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What is an Ascetic?
A life free from world pleasures, and involves giving up pf material possessions. An ascetic life often has the aim of persuing religious and spiritual goals.
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What is Enlightenment?
A statue of wisdom that enables total clarity and understanding of the truths of existence; achieving enlightenment (Buddhahood) allows a being to be freed from the cycle of rebirth.
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What is a Bodhisattva?
In Mahayana Buddhism this is being destined for enlightenment, who postpones their final escape from Samsara and the cycle of death, rebirth and suffering.
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What is the Bhavachakra?
The Tibetan Wheel of Life showing understanding of birth, death and rebirth.
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What is the Dhamma?
The Dhamma is the teachings of the Buddha; these are ultimate truth
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What is Buddha Nature?
In Mahayana Buddism this refers to the fundamental nature of all beings, which means that all beings can become enlightened /each Buddhahood
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What are the 4 Noble Truths?
Suffering (Dukkha)
The cause of suffering (Samudaya)
The end of suffering (Nirodha)
The path to end suffering (Magga)
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What is Mahayana?
Literally means ‘greater vehicle’.
This school of Buddhism is focused on achieving enlightenment for the sake of all beings (main school of Buddhism in China, Tibet and Japan)
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What is Panna?
Panna = Wisdom
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What is Nibbana?
Literally means ‘blowing out’ the belief that individuals can achieve a state of perfect peace where they experience liberation from the cycle of birth,death and rebirth.
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What is Samadhi?
Samadhi Medtation
Meditation - a spiritual experience that opens a person up to the highest state of consciousness; one of the Mahayana’s 6 perfections and part of the 8 Fold Path.
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What is Samudaya?
The cause of suffering (the 2nd Noble Truth)
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What is Sila?
Ethics - moral principles that inform behaviour and attitudes; part of the 8 Fold Path
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What is Sunyata?
Literally means ‘emptiness’. Mahayana belief about the absence of an intrinsic nature of self - identity.
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What is Tanha?
Craving - the Ongoing State of desire which causes suffering; grasping at things we want / enjoy.
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What does Theravada mean?
The school of Buddhism mainly found in Sri Lanka and Thailand; it is an older tradition than Mahayana.
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What are the 5 Aggregates (Skandhas)?
The belief that human beings are composed of five factors:
(form, senastion,perception,mental formations, consciousness)
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What is Bodhisattva Ideal?
The Mahayana goal for everyone to become bodhisattvas and help free sentient beings from Samsara and the cycle of death, rebirth and suffering.
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What is Dhammapada 190 - 191?
“He who has gone for refuge to the Buddha, the Teaching and his Order, penetrates with transcendental wisdom the 4 Noble Truths - suffering, the cessation of suffering, and the Noble 8 Fold Path leading to the cessation of suffering”
