Final Buddhism Review Flashcards

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Buddha

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Means “awakened one”
- Siddartha

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Sal Tree

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Holy tree

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The Dharma

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Buddha’s teachings

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3 Pitakas

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  • 3 parts in Pali Canon (written text):
  • Pitakas (baskets)
    1.) Discourses (teachings)
    2.) Rules for monks (live in sangas)
    3.) Added teachings
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Dukkha

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  • unsatisfied
  • truth of suffering
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Pali Canon

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Scripture

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Noble 8 Fold Path

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1.) Right perspective
2.) Right commitment
3.) Right speech
4.) Right actions
5.) Right livelihood
6.) Right focus
7.) Right minfulness
8.) Right meditation

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Theravada

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  • Elder’s knowledge
  • Oldest existing school for Buddhism
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Lama

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teacher

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Mantra

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Message

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3 Cardinal Virtues

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1.) Loving kindness
2.) Generosity
3.) Understanding
- These add up to compassion

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Tao

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The way

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Yin-Yang

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  • Contrast
  • Ultimate contrast: Death
  • Taoism
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Koan

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Japanese word for riddle/paradox

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Satori

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Japanese word for enlightenment

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Nirvana

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  • Means quenching
17
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Bodhi Tree

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Where Siddartha had first discovery of enlightenment

18
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Chakra

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Wheel
- biggest symbol in Buddhism

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Bhavachakra

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  • Life wheel
  • 6 realms of rebirth
  • 31 levels of rebirth
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Tanha

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The truth of the cause
- Suffering has a cause

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4 Noble truths

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1.) Truth of suffering
2.) The truth of the cause
3.) The truth of cessation
4.) The truth of the “way”

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Mahayana

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Means “great vehicle”
- More devotional and ceremonial
- branch: Tibetan
- Reads Lotus Sutra (Burning house)

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Vipassana

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mindfulness

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5 Precepts

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1.) Do no harm (ahimsa)
2.) No stealing
3.) Sexual morality
4.) No lying
5.) No intoxicants

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3 Roots of Evil

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  • Fristration
  • Greed
  • Delusion
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Tao Te Ching

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Means “the way and it’s virture”
- Lau Tza founder of Taoism

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Zen

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Japanese version of meditation
- To sit

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Paradox

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Koan

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Siddartha Guatama

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  • Sees 4 signs of old age, sickness, death and sanyasin
  • Becomes the Buddha
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Maya

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Siddartha’s mom

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Yasodhara

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Siddartha’s wife

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Suddhodana

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King and Siddartha’s dad

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Confucius

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Kong Fuzi
- Practical teachings

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Pajapati

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Maya’s sister, Siddartha’s second wife