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15 Cards in this Set
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Siddhartha Gautama
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Founder of Buddhism, The Buddha (6th c BC?)
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Samsara
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reincarnation, multiple lives
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Karma
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record of good deeds
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Nirvana
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enlightenment, extinction of the bad
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sangha
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church that buddha organized his disciples into
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darma
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discipline of buddhist monks, the duties towards good kharma
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paranirvana
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death when cycle of lives has ended, beyond human comprehension, enlighenment
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Theravada (Hinayana)
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Buddhist sect in which monks seek personal enlightenment, beggers, not everyone can achieve enlightenment, but can work towards it by helping monks
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Mahayana
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Primary sect of buddhism that reaches china just as it is starting up; iconographic, many buddhas (Amitaba, buddha of paradise--pure land; future Buddha = Maitreya; etc.), all can achieve nirvana, four sects
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Bodhisattva
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mahayana being that altruistically refrains from nirvana to help others along the way to enlightenment
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Han Mingdi
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1st century emperor that dreams about buddhism and sends Xuanzang to india to bring it back
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Sutra
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cannonical writings/records of buddha's sermons
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Xiongnu
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northern tribe; declares that it is okay for chinese converts to enter monasteries
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Kumarajiva
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300s ad translator that brings buddhism to chinese people
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Lotus Sutra
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primary text of the Mayahana sects, focuses onthe final revelations that all people can achieve nirvana
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