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26 Cards in this Set
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Buddha |
Indian religious leader. A person who has attained full prajna, or enlightenment. |
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Sakyamuni |
One of the names of Buddha. |
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Tathagata |
An honorific title of a buddha. |
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Tipitaka |
Buddhism the three collections of books making up the Buddhist canon of scriptures. |
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Abidharma |
Ancient Buddhist texts which contain detailed scholastic and scientific reworkings of doctrinal material appearing in the Buddhist sutras, according to schematic classifications. |
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Pali Canon |
Ancient Buddhist scriptures written in Pali and considered authoritative. |
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Theravada |
The remaining orthodox school of Buddhism, which adheres to the earliest scriptures. |
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Mahayana |
The "Great Vehicle," the Buddhist school that stresses compassion. |
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Vajrayana |
The Buddhist path of the Tibetan diaspora. |
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4 Noble Truths |
The doctrines of Buddha. All life is suffering, the cause of suffering is ignorant desire, this desire can be destroyed, the means to this is the Eightfold Path. |
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Ch'an/Zen |
A Chinese and Japanese school emphasizing that all things have buddha-nature, which can only be grasped when one escapes from the intellectual mind. |
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Maitreya |
Bodhisattva who in the Buddhist tradition is to appear on Earth, achieve complete enlightenment, and teach the pure dharma. |
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Avalokitesvara |
Bodhisattva who represents compassion, and his mantra also symbolizes that quality. "The Lord Who Looks Down" (in compassion). |
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8 fold path |
Fourth of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths; the first element of the Noble Eightfold Path is, in turn, and understanding of the Four Noble Truths. |
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anatman |
The principle that there is no eternal self. |
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skandha |
The five transitory personal elements of body, perception, conception, volition, and consciousness, whose temporary concatenation forms the individual self. |
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sunyata |
The doctrine of voidness, emptiness. |
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3 |
Three Jewels (Triple Gem). Pali, Tiratana, Sanskrit. |
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Jewels/Refugees |
Triple Gem |
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sangha |
The spiritual community. In Theravada, the monastic community. |
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arhat |
A "worthy one" who has followed the Buddha's path to liberation. |
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bodhisattva |
A person who is dedicated to liberating others from suffering. |
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nirvana |
The ultimate egoless state of bliss. |
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Amitabha |
(Infinite Radiance) archetypal Buddha who represents love and compassion, and he is pictured as being the rich, warm color of the setting sun. |
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Vinaya |
"leading out", "education", "discipline" |
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Dukkha |
Discomfort, suffering, frustration, disharmony. |
