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What are the 6 realms of Samsara?
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1) GOD
2) Human 3) Animal 4) Asuras 5) Hell 6) Ghost |
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GOD realm
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State of bliss
everything is comfortable loose motivation for enlightenment =Heaven=most pleasant rebirth |
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ASURAS realm
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Jealous demigod
actions based on jealousy struggle |
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HUMAN realm
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Based on passion, desire, pride, pain
Most advantageous rebirth because you can find enlightenment Preferable as a place of rebirth since it contains a better balance of pleasure and suffering |
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Animal Realm
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invovles physical suffering
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Hungry Ghost Realm
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rebirth based on possessiveness
constantly hungry/thirsty but cannot fulfill their needs |
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Hell Realm
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rebirth based on hatred cultivated by previous lives
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The wheel of life is known as:
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BHAVACAKRA
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The pure abodes=
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top 5 heavens
reserve for non returners- humans on the point of gaining enlightenment and will not be reborn as human beings |
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What force moves ppl from one realm to the other?
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KARMA
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Karma :
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Moves individuals from one realm to another
Concerned with the ethical implications of Dharma understood as a sequence of cause and effect good karma= merit merit transferance exists |
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Hindu term for WANDERERS
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PARIVRAJAKAS
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Cycle of evolution and destruction =
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KALPAS
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To escape SAMSARA you must attain
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NIRVANA
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Bodhisattva
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Enlightenment during existence
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BUDDHA
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"one that has achieved"
Siddharta Gautama: the one that has achieved his goal Sakyamuni= Sage of the Sakyas |
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Buddha gets married at 16 to
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YASODHARA
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What is USNICA
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mound on the head - indicating his great wisdom
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Meditative state in Buddhism is known as
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DHYANA
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Bodhgaya is
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the place where Buddha achieved enlightment
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Where and When did Buddhism start?
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GANGES VALLEY in 6 BCE
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MERIT=
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PUYA
Accumulation of good KARMA Manifestation of a person'e COMPASSION/ SELFLESSNESS/ GENEROSITY |
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Karma=
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law of cause and effect
Concerns morality Most important factor is INTENTION Divided into 3 parts: -body -mind -speech |
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Buddha's timeline is circa
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560-483
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Father of Buddha
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SUDDHODANA
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Mother of Buddha
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Queen Maya
dies 7 days after Buddha's birth |
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Coming out of his 6 year of aceticism he accepts food from
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SUJATA
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Life is suffering
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Because of 3 things
1) Impertinence- nothing is permanent/ unchanging 2) Suffering 3 types 3) Anatman- 5 Skandas |
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What are the TRIPITAKAS
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Buddhas teaching are organized in the Tripiatkas
Sutra Pitaka= Buddhas works/sermons Vinaya Pitaka= Canon that regulates monastic life Abhidharma pitaka= high teaching / philosophy |
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What are the 5 aggregates/attachment?
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1) Form
2) Feeling 3) Perception 4) Form Perception 5) Consciousness |
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Doctrine of origination refers to
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Pratotya Samutpada
12 nidanas 1) Ignorance 2) compositional factors (samskara) 3) consciousness 4) form and name 5) 6 senses 6) contact 7) feeling 8) craving 9) grasping 10) becoming 11) born 12) old age and death |
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Nuns PATRIMOKSA
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279-380 rules
including 8 GARUDHAMMA |
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aunt of Buddha=
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MAHAPRAJAPI
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BUDDHA lets women get ordained why?
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- bc of ANANDA
- He establishes 8 rules: GARUDHAMMA |
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What is ARHANT
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Saints worthy ones
have learned the path of enlightenment/liberation but didn't discover it |
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Buddha dies where?
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KUSINAGARI
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Which text tells the story of B?
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NIDANAKATHA
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AGANNA SUTTA
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Tells the story of how the world began
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MUTRAS
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Hand gesture
Grabs the earth as his witness |
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2) suffering has a cause
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SAMUDAYA
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3) Suffering can have an end
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NIRODHA
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3 important monks?
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UPALI
DE VA DATTA MA HA KA SYA PA |
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2 important royal patrons?
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King BIMBISARA
King PRA SE NA JIT |
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2 important lay disciples?
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ANA THA PIN DIKA
VISA KHA |
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OFENCE requiring EXPULSION
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PARAJIKA DHARMA
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Offecnce requiring temporary expulsion
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SANGHA VASESA or PAYANTIKA Dharma
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BUDDHARCARITA is composed by
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ASVAGHOSA
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What is TATHAGA?
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one who has attained what is really so
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the truth of cessation
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NIRODHA= suffering can have an end
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