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This is the Sanskrit word for god, the divine reality found in all things.

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Brahman

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Hinduism teaches that everyone must fulfill their social and religious duty in any given lifetime. If one is a servant, one must be a good servant and fulfill all the obligations of servanthood. This is called

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Dharma

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In this sacred text, Prince Arjuna receives sage advice from his chariot driver while preparing for battle. It turns out the chariot driver is the God, Krishna, in disguise.

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Bhagavad Gita

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Meaning union or yoke, these are four different spiritual practices for clearing the mind and coming into union with the true self (and therefore with god)

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Yogas

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The ultimate goal in Hinduism is to escape samsara and be liberated from the material world. The liberation is called

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Moksha

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Meaning action, every thought, word and deed has consequences both for this life and the next.

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Karma

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What is a guru?

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A spiritual teacher

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What is a sannyasin?

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A person who has renounced all attachments to the world.

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A young boy will spend the first 25 year span of his life as a student. His initiation into the formal rites of Hinduism is called

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The sacred thread ceremony

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Brahmin, kshatriya, vaishya and shifts refer to

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The caste system

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He is the destroyer and is shown with a snake around his neck, depicting the need to control our egos.

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Shiva

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The spring festival of colors features people throwing colored water and powders all over one another. All caste and gender distinctions are suspended during the holiday.

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Holi

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This is the most sacred symbol in Hinduism and is sometimes chanted as a mantra.

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Om

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She is the goddess of wealth and good luck and is a key part of the festival of Diwali.

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Lakshmi

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He led a non-violent revolution against British colonialism and became the model for the non-violent civil rights movement led in the us by Martin Luther King Jr.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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The lingam and yoni are symbols of the masculine and the feminine and are used in the worship of this deity.

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Shiva

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The story of Lord Rama and his wife, Sita, is found in this sacred text.

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The Ramayana

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A vaishnavite worships in which tradition?

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Vishnu

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This was introduced in the United States through Hinduism?

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Meditation, vegetarianism, and yoga.

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Puja means

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Worship

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The founder of Buddhism was a man named

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Siddhartha Gautama

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Buddha means

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Awakened one

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These are the three jewels of Buddhism. They are resources that lead the way to Nirvana.

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Buddha, dharma, and sangha.

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The four passing sights opened Siddhartha’s eyes to the truth of suffering in the world.

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The passing sights are a sick man, dead man, and old man. A newborn is not a passing sight.

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What do buddhists believe about the soul?

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It is not permanent.

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In order to reach nirvana, one must

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Walk the middle path, the path of moderation.

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The symbol of Buddhism is

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The eight-spoked wheel.

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In Hinduism dharma means duty, in Buddhism, the dharma is

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The teachings of the Buddha

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The main intention of Buddhism is to

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Minimize suffering in our lives and in the lives of others

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In order to end suffering we must

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End desire

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The three branches of Buddhism represent different vehicles for reaching nirvana. Which refers to many different large boats?

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Mahayana

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This boat of branch of Buddhism can get a person across to nirvana in one lifetime because it is tantric (uses all the resources of the body)

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Vajrayana

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The newest name of this branch of Buddhism means the way of the elders. It is the most traditional form of Buddhism.

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Theravada

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These saints in Buddhism have reached nirvana but refused to step onto that distant shore. Instead they take a vow not to enter nirvana until all beings have been rescued and made the crossing successfully.

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Bodhisattvas

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Her name means hears cries

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Kuan Yin

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In the pure land tradition, one would chant the name of this bodhisattva over and over again, hoping he would bring us to paradise.

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Amitabha

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These are the marks of Zen Buddhism

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Zazen, koans, manual labor

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This is the founder of the chan tradition in China. He also invented Kung Fu as a way to strengthen monks for long periods of meditation.

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Bodhidharma

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Practitioners in this tradition would chant praise to the Lotus Sutra.

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Nichiren/SGI

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The most influential spiritual leader alive today, he is a bodhisattva in the Tibetan tradition.

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Dalai Lama

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The founder of Daoism is a teacher named

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Laozi

42
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The life force that flows through all things is called

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Chi

43
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Yang is

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Masculine energy

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In Taoism (Daoism) the divine force found in all nature is called

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The dao (Tao)

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The book of 81 poems are thought to be the teachings of Laozi

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Tao Te Ching

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The founder of Confucianism is

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Confucius, Master Kong, and Kung Fu Tzu

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The ideal person in Confucianism is called

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Junzi

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The teachings of Confucius were collected in a book called

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The analects

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Confucianism was accused by the communists of being

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Elitist, sexist, and old-fashioned/antiquated.

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This is the daoist concept of actionless action or no effort

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Wu wei

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