Midterm Flashcards
1
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Bodh Gaya
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- place where Siddhartha Gautama became enlightened
- Bodhi Tree
2
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3 Jewels (core of Buddhism)
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- Buddha: true teacher
- Dharma: true doctrine to attain Nirvana
- Sangha: true religious community (monks and nuns)
3
Q
3 Vehicles
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- Hinayana: lesser
- Mahayana: greater
- Vajrayana: indestructible
4
Q
4 Omens
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- old person
- sick person
- dead body
- mendicant
5
Q
3 Sources of Buddha’s Life
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- fragments of sutra (scripture)
- early complete autonomous bios
- later complete autonomous
6
Q
2 Forms of Symbiosis
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- pilgrimage
2. art (acts of his life) arttext
7
Q
4 Pilgrimage Sites
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- Lumbini (birth tree)
- Mahabodhi Temple Bodh Gaya (site of enlightenment)
- Sarnath Varnasi (first sermon)
- Kushinagar (site of death and cremation)
8
Q
12 Acts of Buddha
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- Tushita heaven
- descent to earth (white elephant)
- birth
- education
- pleasure palace to be next king
- great renunciation–climax gave up life of pleasure
- asceticism – cave middle way between austerity and indulgence
- journey to Bodh Gaya eats and begins process of enlightenment
- battle Mara’s Hordes –insight into everything that appears, overcome everything
- enlightenment at Bodh Gaya
- teaching
- Mahaparinirvana great complete cessation –died
9
Q
Theravada
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The Elders
1st diffusions of early Buddhism–written text
10
Q
6 Realms of Rebirth
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- hell
- hungry ghost
- animal
- human
- demi gods
- god –long life but wearing out all merit
11
Q
4 Noble Truths
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- suffering
- there is a cause of suffering
- there is cessation
- there is a path to cessation
12
Q
3 types of suffering
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- suffering of suffering
- suffering of change
- existential suffering (pervades anything that arises in the world)
13
Q
Causes of suffering
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- craving
2. ignorance
14
Q
3 Trainings
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- wisdom
- conduct
- meditation
15
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8 Fold Path
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- right understanding
- resolve
- speech
- action
- livelihood
- effort
- mindfulness
- concentration