Midterm Flashcards

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Bodh Gaya

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  • place where Siddhartha Gautama became enlightened

- Bodhi Tree

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3 Jewels (core of Buddhism)

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  1. Buddha: true teacher
  2. Dharma: true doctrine to attain Nirvana
  3. Sangha: true religious community (monks and nuns)
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3 Vehicles

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  1. Hinayana: lesser
  2. Mahayana: greater
  3. Vajrayana: indestructible
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4 Omens

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  1. old person
  2. sick person
  3. dead body
  4. mendicant
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5
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3 Sources of Buddha’s Life

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  1. fragments of sutra (scripture)
  2. early complete autonomous bios
  3. later complete autonomous
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2 Forms of Symbiosis

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  1. pilgrimage

2. art (acts of his life) arttext

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4 Pilgrimage Sites

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  1. Lumbini (birth tree)
  2. Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya (site of enlightenment)
  3. Sarnath Varnasi (first sermon)
  4. Kushinagar (site of death and cremation)
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12 Acts of Buddha

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  1. Tushita heaven
  2. descent to earth (white elephant)
  3. birth
  4. education
  5. pleasure palace to be next king
  6. great renunciation–climax gave up life of pleasure
  7. asceticism – cave middle way between austerity and indulgence
  8. journey to Bodh Gaya eats and begins process of enlightenment
  9. battle Mara’s Hordes –insight into everything that appears, overcome everything
  10. enlightenment at Bodh Gaya
  11. teaching
  12. Mahaparinirvana great complete cessation –died
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Theravada

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The Elders

1st diffusions of early Buddhism–written text

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6 Realms of Rebirth

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  1. hell
  2. hungry ghost
  3. animal
  4. human
  5. demi gods
  6. god –long life but wearing out all merit
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4 Noble Truths

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  1. suffering
  2. there is a cause of suffering
  3. there is cessation
  4. there is a path to cessation
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3 types of suffering

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  1. suffering of suffering
  2. suffering of change
  3. existential suffering (pervades anything that arises in the world)
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Causes of suffering

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  1. craving

2. ignorance

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14
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3 Trainings

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  1. wisdom
  2. conduct
  3. meditation
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8 Fold Path

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  1. right understanding
  2. resolve
  3. speech
  4. action
  5. livelihood
  6. effort
  7. mindfulness
  8. concentration
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16
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5 Aggregates

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  1. forms (all material objs)
  2. feelings (pos, neg, neu)
  3. perceptions (recognition or nah)
  4. formations (internal objs of experience)
  5. consciousness (clear and knowing)
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5 Precepts

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  1. killing
  2. stealing
  3. sexual misconduct
  4. lying
  5. intoxicants
18
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How Laypeople accumulate merit

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  1. Donation
  2. Pilgrimage
  3. sponsorship
19
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Pratimoksha

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Monks- 227 rules vows of individual liberation
Nuns- 311 rules
can’t wear the orange of true monkhood

20
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4 stages of complete karmic action

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  1. intention
  2. preparation
  3. action
  4. non regret
21
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mindfulness classical def

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to remember

attentiveness directed towards the present

22
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4 foundations of mindfulness

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  1. body (what we’re made of)
  2. feeling (isolate sensations)
  3. mind (presence or absence of 3 poisons)
  4. phenomena (get rid of self, awareness of all things that arise)
23
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Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn

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mindfulness is a secularized mediation

non judgmental moment to moment awareness

24
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McMindfulness

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marketing and mainstreaming of meditation devoid of religious objectives

25
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2 primary forms of meditation

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  1. serenity; 4 foundations; stabilization

2. insight; analysis; wisdom true nature of self and phenomena

26
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ultimate goal of meditation

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unification of the two forms and non distraction by the reality of nonself

27
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9 stages of calm abiding

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to reach stability; at the top reach perfect serenity, nirvana or enter Buddhahood

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4 primary stages of enlghtenment

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  1. Stream enterer
  2. once returner
  3. non returner
  4. Arhant
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Stream enterer

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7 more rebirths in sensory realm; not lower than human

30
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once returner

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1 more life in the sensory realm (not this one)

31
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non returner

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last life in sensory realm

may be reborn in pure abodes (above sensory realms)

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Arhant

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foe destroyer

nirvana attained; path completed