Religion and Morality - Buddhism Key Terms and Definitions Flashcards
ahimsa
Not killing. Respect for life, not being violent.
anatta
No self, no soul; the Universal Truth that the soul is insubstantial; that people change
over their lives; denial of a real or permanent self.
anicca
Impermanence, instability, not permanent, etc.
Brahman
The ultimate reality from which everything comes and into which everything will return.
Brahmin
The first of the four social groups or varnas: the priestly caste.
Buddha
- Historically the Buddha – the enlightened one.
2. An awakened or enlightened person.
dhamma (dharma)
Universal law; ultimate truth; the teachings of Buddha.
dukkha (duhkha)
Suffering; ill; everything leads to suffering; unsatisfactoriness.
Eightfold Path
The way to wisdom; mental training and the way of morality (eight stages to be
practised simultaneously).
The Five Moral Precepts
To not kill any living being, refrain from stealing, refrain from wrongful sexual activity,
refrain from lying, refrain from taking drugs and alcohol that cloud the mind.
The Five Moral Precepts
To not kill any living being, refrain from stealing, refrain from wrongful sexual activity,
refrain from lying, refrain from taking drugs and alcohol that cloud the mind.
The Four Noble Truths
Dukkha, Tanha, Nirodha, Magga (suffering, the cause of suffering, the end of suffering,
the path to the end of suffering).
metta
Loving kindness. A pure love, which is not possessive and which does not seek to gain.
monk/nun
A man/woman who lives within a religious community and has few, if any, possessions.
nibbana (nirvana)
To reach a state of perfect peace where the individual experiences liberation from the
cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
