India Vocab 3

Question 1

Buddhism

Answer 1

A religion that began in India and is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama

Question 2

Siddhartha Gautama

Answer 2

Any of a series of teachers in Buddhism, of whom Gautama was the last, who bring enlightenment and wisdom.

Question 3

Nirvana

Answer 3

Pali nibbana. Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusion: attained by the Arhat as his goal but postponed by the Bodhisattva.

Question 4

Dharma

Answer 4

essential quality or character, as of the cosmos or one’s own nature.

Question 5

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 5

1917–84, Indian political leader: prime minister 1966–77 and 1980–84

Question 6

Epic

Answer 6

noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer’s Iliad is an epic poem.

Question 7

Ahimsa

Answer 7

Nonviolence