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22 Cards in this Set
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three baskets
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teachings in Pali canon. Comprised of Monastic Rules, Discourse, and Higher teachings
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Arhants
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"saints" goal of the monks
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sangha
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Theravada Buddhist community, made of monks and lay people. Laity provide material, monks provide spiritual
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Two wheels of Dhamma (law, order)
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describes role of laity and monks. Monks provide laity w/ guidance and laity provide monks food and shelter to gain merits (punna)
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partidana
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"merit making" or "merit transfer"; not tuaght by Buddha, laity ppl want their merits to get dead ancestors out of peta world
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Sraddha
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similar concept to merit transfer in Theravada Buddhism, and suffrages in Catholocism, and chinese death rites(Hindu)
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Pretas
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Sanskrit word, pali form is petas. similar to purgatory and chinese huai soul (hindu)
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suffrages
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currency for transaction between living and souls in purgatory, similar to punna and sraddha
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punna
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currency for transaction between living and invisible petas, similar to suffrages and sraddha
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peta
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"hungry ghost" in Theravada Buddhism. They are trapped in the peta world and rescued through merit transfer, they can't eat food in this world, usually look emaciated, people who are greedy in their lifetime go to the peta world
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Bhava Cakra
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wheel of existance, 8 worlds, center is the three poisons
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devata
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"divinity" peta transferred into one if merits are recieved
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peta-vatthu
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"tales of the hungry dead" belongs to the basket of discourse
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p'o soul
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similar to petas of theravada and pretas of hinduism
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virabhadras
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unhappy dead children, called pretas or bhuta
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bhutanatha
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"lord of spirits" hindus worship it
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smearing
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technique for controlling the unhappy dead, also includes nailing, binding, and feeding
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nailing
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hindus nail hair onto banyon tree to keep bad spirits away. it is was petas like to eat
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Banyon Tree of Bhairava
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place images here, images fed by devotees w/ sesame oil, red pste, and coatings of foil (malipana)
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mail
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drippings that are collected and then smeared onto a rope
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Merit fields
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Theravada, consists of arhants(advanced monks who attained nibanna) they serve the merit field. Arhants are the merit field
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Ashfruit
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represent dead children (virabhadras)
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