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31 Cards in this Set
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Siddhartha Guatama Buddha |
Wish fullfiller, he who accomplishes his goals; family name; enlightened one |
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Sakyamuni |
Nickname of the founder of Buddha - sage of the sakys |
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Maya |
Mother of Buddha, Space-Time Illusion |
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Rahula |
Son of Buddha - obstacle or thether |
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Kshatriya |
Prince |
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Four passing sights |
Old age, illness, death, peace |
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Extreme ascetism |
Buddha practices for six years, finds five ascetics in the woods and becomes their yogi |
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Middle way |
Mean between the two extremes |
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Bodhi tree |
Buddha did not move for forty nine days until he acheived enlightenment |
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Mara |
Lord of death, tempter, ego, appears as Kama - desire |
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Dharma (Dhamma or Dharmapada) |
Duty, teachings of the path of Buddha |
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Four noble truths |
Suffering; desires cause suffering; get rid of desires - get rid of suffering; eight-fold way or path |
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Anatta |
Rejections of all forms of self, non Atman |
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Nirvana |
Nothingness, no thingness, no limitations, death to false ego |
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Asoka |
Bad emperor turned missionary, prophet of Buddha; champion of Buddhism |
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Hinayana |
Small vehicle - liberation for self, doctrine of the elders |
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Mahayana |
Large vehicle - love and compassion for others |
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Bodhisattva |
Give up everything to help others |
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Stupa |
Architectural mound that contains relics of Buddha or the Boddhisattvas |
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Tibetan Buddhism |
Combination of mahayana and bon - old culture of Tibet |
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Avalokitesvara |
Fourteenth overseer of Dalai Lama, lord of compassion |
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Diamond body |
Enlightenment or moksha within a single lifetime |
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Mandalas |
Yantras, thang-ras |
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Mudra |
Hand positions |
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Zen |
Meditation Buddhism (Ch'an) |
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Zazen |
Seated in meditation |
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Koans |
Nonsense riddles - sound of one hand clapping, push one into non ordinary state |
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Satori |
Samadhi, cosmic consciousness |
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Amitabha |
Amita Buddha - say name multiple times with reverence will be taken to his world after you die |
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Sangha |
Buddhist order of monks or nuns |
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Maitreya |
Future Buddha |
