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Eight-fold Path

A 
Thought
Understanding
Speech
Action
Livelihood
Effort
Mindfulness
Concentration
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Three-fold Path

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Ethics
Meditation
Insight/wisdom

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Maitreya

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The coming Buddha

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When will the next Buddha come?

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When the Dharma is lost

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Anicca/anitya

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Impermanence

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Four noble truths

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Dukkha
Trishna
Cessation
Path

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Dukkha

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Unsatisfactoriness of samsaric existence
Suffering
“Understand me”

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Trishna

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Thirst/craving
Clinging to what we do have, yearning for what we don’t have
“Abandon/overcome me”

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Cessation

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Cessation of Dukkha

“Realize me”

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Path

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The Way-from here to there

“Develop/cultivate me”

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Nirvana/Moksha

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Liberation/enlightenment

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Samsara

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The cycle of suffering

Death and rebirth

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Brahmanas

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“Conservatives”
Hereditary priests
“Technicians of the sacred”

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Shramanas

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“Strivers”
“Radicals”
Rejection of Vedas and Brahmanic authority
Wanderers

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Dhammacakkappavattana Suttra

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Buddha’s first teaching

Setting of the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion

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Dhamma/Dharma

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The truth taught by the Buddha

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The Three Jewels

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The Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha

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Buddha

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Awakened one

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Sangha

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The community

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Jataka

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Births

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Siddhartha Gautama

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The Buddha

Lived around the 5th century BCE (480-400 BCE)

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22
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Seven ways Buddhists recalled the Buddha after his death

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The Dharma 
Pilgrimage 
Relics
Images
Masters of the Dharma
Arhats
Maitreya
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Four pilgrimage sites

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Birth (Lumbini)
Awakening (Bodhgaya)
1st sermon (Sarnath)
Death (Kusingara)

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Masters of the Dharma

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Lineage

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Ananda

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Buddha’s right-hand man

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Arhats

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Guardians of Buddhism

16, 18, or 500 in number

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27
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Two dimensions of Buddhist Meditation

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Samatha

Vipassana

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Samatha

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“Calming” or “centering”
Mindfulness of breathing
Calming practices

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Vipassana

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“Insight”
Mindful awareness of impermanence
Contemplation of the Buddha

30
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Four Brahma Viharas

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Loving-kindness (metta)
Compassion (karuna)
Sympathetic joy (mudita)
Equanimity (upekkha)

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Six elements

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Earth
Fire
Water
Air
Space
Consciousness
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Anatta/anatman

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No-self

Non-substantiality of the self

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Five Precepts

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Abstention from:

  1. Taking life
  2. Taking the not-given
  3. Sexual misconduct
  4. False speech
  5. Intoxication
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The Wheel of Life

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The “Three Poisons”
Two orders of conditionality
Six realms of existence
Twelve-fold chain of cause and condition

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The “Three Poisons”

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Greed (the rooster)
Hatred (the snake)
Delusion (the pig)

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Two orders of conditionality

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Ascending and descending

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Six realms of existence

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Gods
Titans
Humans
Animals
Hungry ghosts
Denizens of hell realms
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Twelve-fold chain of cause and condition

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Ignorance 
Predispositions
Consciousness
"Name-and-form"
Six sensory faculties
Contact
Feeling
Craving
Grasping
Becoming
Rebirth
Old age and death
39
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Buddha-anusmrti

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Recollection of the Buddha

40
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Key characteristics of Mahayana

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Expansiveness
Universality 
Literature
Cosmology
Buddhology 
Soteriology 
Doctrines
Methodology
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Cosmology

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Universe is infinite
Buddhas are everywhere
The opportunity for buddhas is everywhere

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Mahayana

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The “Greater Vehicle”

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Shunyata

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Three “own natures”

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Interdependent
Constructed
Fulfilled (perfect, pure)

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Lumbini

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The Buddha’s birth-place

46
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Bodhgaya

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Location of the Buddha’s awakening

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Sarnath

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Location of the Buddha’s first sermon

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Kusingara

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Where the Buddha died

49
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Arada Kalama and Rudraka Ramaputra

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The Buddha’s teachers

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Five Dhyana Factors

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Initial thought
Sustained thought
Rapture
Bliss
One-pointedness
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Samskaras

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Karma-formation

The tendency or disposition to act in that same way again

52
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Three marks of existence

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Anicca (impermanence)
Anatta (no-self)
Dukkha (dissatisfactoriness)

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Vedas

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Aryan hymns of praise to the gods

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Karma

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A specific action

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Mara

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Demon that tempted Buddha by trying to seduce him with three beautiful women
“Causing death”

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Tanha

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Arati

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Discontentment

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Raga

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Attachment/passion/desire

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Jainism

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Living a life of harmlessness and renunciation

Non-violence toward all living beings

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Angulimala

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Serial killer who encounters the Buddha and becomes his student and an arhat

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Karma-vipaka

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Result or fruition

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Soteriology

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Theory of liberation/salvation

Conception of the goal (nirvana)

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Avalokitesvara

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Embodiment of compassion

Bodhisattva who has vowed to postpone his own buddhahood until he has assisted every sentient being in achieving nirvana

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Prajna-paramita

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The perfection of wisdom

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Bodhicitta

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“Heart-mind of awakening”

Wish to attain enlightenment motivated by compassion for others

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Bodhisattva

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A buddha/the Buddha’s past lives
Someone on the path to nirvana
Someone who has compassion for all sentient beings

67
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Yogacara

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Final, definitive understanding

68
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Tathagata-garbha

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A buddha within

The in-dwelling buddha

69
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Eight types of consciousness

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Sense-consciousnesses:

  1. Eye
  2. Ear
  3. Nose
  4. Tongue
  5. Body

Mind-consciousnesses:

  1. Mind (perception)
  2. Manas (self-consciousness)
  3. Storehouse consciousness (karmic seeds)

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