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19 Cards in this Set
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Anada |
One of Buddha's principal disciples; his attendent |
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anatman |
'not self'; the Buddhist denial of a permanent and substantial self |
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arhat |
an awakened Buddhist saint; cf. sravaka |
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bhiksu |
a Buddhist monk |
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bhiksuni |
a Buddhist nun |
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Bodhgaya |
site of which Buddha achieved awakening |
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bodhisattva |
one on the path to Buddhahood |
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dana |
generosity or giving |
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dharma |
the underlying law of reality; the teaching of the Buddha |
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duhka |
'pain'; the unease or unsatisfactoriness which characterizes existence |
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karma |
good and bad actions of body, speech, and mind whose pleasant and unpleasant results are experienced in this and subsequent lives |
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Lumbini |
where Buddha lived until the age of 29 |
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Mara |
the tempter figure in Buddhist mythology |
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nirvana |
the 'blowing out' of the fires of greed, hatred, and delusion; the ultimate goal of Buddhist practice; the unconditioned |
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samadhi |
concentration cf. dhyana |
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samatha |
calm, one of the 2 types of meditation |
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samsara |
the round of rebirth |
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sangha |
the Buddhist monastic order of monks and nuns |
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vipasyana |
insight; another type of Buddhist meditation |
