Vocab words MIDTERM Flashcards
D: knowledge is impossible or uncertain
relates to impermanence;
C: buddha sat under the tree and was skeptical of the knowledge being able to be understood, Buddha wanted people to be skeptical of his teachings and to practice for themselves
S:
skepticism
Sri Lanka and SE Asia practice which type of buddhism
Pali Theravadin Vinaya
gives the rules of monastic life
1) pratimoksa
2) rituals and ceremonies
vinaya
greed, aversion (aggression), delusion
sig: this is what prevents you from being liberated from samsara; also what mara was trying to convince buddha to do
3 defilements
D: theory of knowledge
S: questioning if things exist actually, or are a representation in our minds as knowledge
what can be known?
epistemology
must go through a ceremony with 5 ordained monks there, job is to recite teachings/ sutras, start training at 7yrs and asking for a teacher, 10 rules of training
monk
C: Located mid in Mt. Maru, ONLY TWO SENSES, don’t have consciousness
D: BRAHMAS/ ASURAS demigods (in charge of weather) live here
S: higher beings, you can touch this with special dyanas or meditative practives
Pure Form realm
access concentration; 5 of them; you use them to strengthen your meditation
dyana
buddha who has reached nirvana by themselves, but does not teach others
solitary buddha
abandoned all 10 fetters, will never be reborn again, through buddhist teachings has fully awakened and has perfect conduct
arhat
C: this guides your path to escaping suffering, it is a formal declaration, also a powerful object for rituals (ex: the stupa is ritual place for Buddha)
D: buddha, dharma, sangha
S: what you take refuge in when you declare yourself a buddhist and commit to the path of awakening
three refuges
C: all beings in the world are sorted into these realms, you can be reborn into any of the realms
D: form, formless, and sensual/desire realms
S: the fundamental view on Buddhist cosmology
three realms
language that the Theravada texts are preserved in
Pali
C: it is immortal, it is not different from the underlying ground of the universe which is brahman, unchanging and beyond suffering
D: “self”, the witness, the agent, the ego
S: This is the underlying entity that does not change and allows for us to see that everything else is a changing experience.
atman
stream attainer, once returner, never returner, arhat
4 stages of awakening
C: determined by wholesome or unwholesome karma, lower realms = less happy
D: realms one can be born in
S: represents the organization of the rebirths but it is also a link between the understanding of cosmology and the PSYCHOLOGY of believing in karma
6 destinies of rebirth
you will not be reborn as a human anymore
once returner
D: highest gods live here
S: least suffering, INFINITE CONSCIOUSNESS and SPACE
Formless realm
monks, nuns, female and male lay followers
sig: followers of the Buddha’s renouncer lifestyle; do this to eradicate suffering
4 assemblies
C: puts the roles of beings into a hierarchy, thought of a geographical map of the world, similar to the Garden of Eden idea (not reality)
D: Mountain that is at the center of the universe in Buddhism
S: This is the way Buddhists believe and orient the world-spheres, it helps conceptualize the power of the gods
Mount Meru
belief in only one god
sig: buddha isnt a god, everything is divine, anyone can be an arhat or a buddha
monotheism
C: this bolsters the ideas of non self and dependent origination, because you don’t arise, it is only the 5 aggregates
you tap into these when you meditate and gain a higher level of consciousness
D: form, sensation, recognition, mental formations, consciousness; it makes up the “self”
S: Buddhist description of what mental and physical phenomena are
5 aggregates