page 5 history rp year 10 Flashcards
stupa
a small building in a monastery that sometimes contains holy relics
sukhavati
a paradise where amitabha buddha lives and where pure land buddhists aim to reborn
sunyata
emptiness: the concept that nothing has a separate,independent self or soul
tanha
craving (desiring or wanting something )
temple
a place where buddhists come together to practice
thangka
a detailed painting of a buddhas or bodhisattva
the eightfold path
eight aspects that buddhist’s practice and live by in order to achieve enlightenment
the five aggregates
the five aspects that make up a person
the five ascetics
the buddhas first students; five monks that followed ascetic practices
the five moral precepts
five principles that buddhist’s try to follow to live ethically and morally
the four noble truths
the four truths that the buddha taught about suffering
the four sights
old age,illness,death, and a holy man ; these four sights led the buddha to leave his life of luxury in the palace
the four sublime states
the four qualities of love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity which the buddha taught buddhists to develop
the six perfections
the six qualities of virtues that mahayana buddhists try to develop in order to live as bodhisattvas
the three poisons
greed,hatred and ignorance; the three main causes of suffering
the three watches of the night
the three realisations that the buddha made to achieve enlightenment
the three fold way
the eightfold path grouped into 3 sections of ethics, meditation and wisdom
the tibetan wheel of life
an image that symbolises samsara , often found in tibetan buddhist monasteries and temples
theravada buddhism
the school of the elders, an ancient buddhist tradition found in southern asia
unskilful
bad, unethical actions or behaviours
vipassana meditation
insight meditation , a type of meditation that involves understanding of the nature of reality
visualisation
imagining or seeing an object in one’s mind
wesak
a theravada festival that celebrates the buddhas birth,enlightenment and passing
wisdom (panna)
a section of the threefold way that deals with buddhist approaches to understanding the nature of reality
zazen meditation
a type of meditation in zen buddhism that requires awareness of the time present moment
