Final

Question 1

Atman

Answer 1

(Hinduism) the infinite center of every life; the God wihtin

Question 2

Brahman

Answer 2

(Hinduism) Sanskrit name for God

Question 3

Jiva

Answer 3

(Hinduism) an individual soul

Question 4

Ishta

Answer 4

(Hinduism) one’s chosen ideal

Question 5

Samsara

Answer 5

(Hinduism) the endless cycle of life that passes through reincarnation

Question 6

Moksha

Answer 6

(Hinduism) liberation; total release

Question 7

Caste

Answer 7

(Hinduism) a station in life

Question 8

Yoga

Answer 8

(Hinduism) method of training designed to lead to integration and union

Question 9

Japam

Answer 9

(Hinduism) the practice of repeating God’s name

Question 10

Karma

Answer 10

(Hinduism) the moral law of cause and effect

Question 11

Budh

Answer 11

(Buddhism) Sanskrit root word meaning ‘to awake and to know’

Question 12

Dukkha

Answer 12

(Buddhism) “wheels whose axles were off-center;” often understood as suffering

Question 13

Anatta

Answer 13

(Buddhism) lack of permanent identity

Question 14

Anicca

Answer 14

(Buddhism) Impermanence

Question 15

Tanha

Answer 15

(Buddhism) the desire for private fulfillment; this desire causes rebirth

Question 16

Nirvanna

Answer 16

(Buddhism) “to extinguish,” as in blowing out a flame; enlightenment

Question 17

Yanas

Answer 17

(Buddhism) rafts or ferries for carrying people across life’s river

Question 18

Bodhi

Answer 18

(Buddhism) wisdom

Question 19

Mara

Answer 19

(Buddhism) the Evil One who challenged Guatama under the Bo tree

Question 20

Bodhisattva

Answer 20

(Buddhism) a being who, having reached the brink of nirvana, voluntarily renounces that prize and returns to the world to make the prize available to others.

Question 21

Hadith

Answer 21

(Islam) the sacred sayings of Muhammed, first shared orally then transcribed.

Question 22

Islam

Answer 22

(Islam) “submission to the will of Allah”

Question 23

Qur’an

Answer 23

(Islam) the bible of Islam; means ‘recitation’

Question 24

Surahs

Answer 24

(Islam) what the chapters of the Qur’an are called

Question 25

Sharia

Answer 25

(Islam) Islamic law

Question 26

Masjid

Answer 26

(Islam) a Muslim place of worship, often called a mosque

Question 27

Jumaa

Answer 27

(Islam) the name for the Muslim Sabbath day

Question 28

Shahada

Answer 28

(Islam) the central proclamation of Islam (one of the 5 pillars of Islam)

Question 29

Ramadhan

Answer 29

(Islam) the 9th month of the Muslim year, holy and devoted to fasting (one of the 5 pillars of Islam)

Question 30

Eid al-Fitr

Answer 30

(Islam) one of the two major Muslim holidays, marking the end of Ramadhan

Question 31

Shirk

Answer 31

(Islam) the unforgivable sin; roughly equivalent to idolatry, placing someone/something in the position due to Allah

Question 32

Muhammed

Answer 32

(Islam) called “the Seal of the Prophets”

Question 33

Torah

Answer 33

(Judaism) Refers to the first five books of the Old Testament (The Law). It can also refer to the entire corpus of the Jewish law.

Question 34

Mishnah

Answer 34

Oral law in general to be distinguished from scripture

Question 35

Gemarah

Answer 35

The commentary based upon the Mishnah

Question 36

Talmud

Answer 36

The Jewish library of oral law and tradition consisting of Mishnah and Gemarah

Question 37

“The scandal of particularity”

Answer 37

the doctrine that God’s doings can focus with great intensity upon His chosen people

Question 38

Messiah

Answer 38

the Chosen One, coming to lead God’s people at some point in the future

Question 39

Rabbi

Answer 39

teacher of Jewish law and tradition

Question 40

Shabbat

Answer 40

the weekly holy day for Judaism, also known as Sabbath

Question 41

Ashkenazim

Answer 41

Jewish descendants from central and eastern Europe, developed Yiddish as their language

Question 42

Sephardic

Answer 42

Jewish descendants from Spain, lived in close proximity with Islam before being driven from Spain in the Inquisition of 1492.