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20 Cards in this Set
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Saccidānanda
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Compound term for the threefold essence of the experience of Brahman: “Being” (sat), “consciousness” (cit) and “bliss” (ānanda)
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Bhakti
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In Advaita Vedānta, there is no personal God to whom one prays, but one can still feel a sense of devotion to reality as sagunabrahman.
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Subration
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A judgmental process in Advaita Vedāntaphilosophy: we downrateor disvalue the ontological status of a thing or idea when it is contradicted (bādhya) by a new experience or insight
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Avidhyā
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“Ignorance”—in Advaita Vedanta: what prevents us from knowing being as it really is. Caused by “superimposition”
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Superimposition
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To “superimpose” or “overlay” a set of characteristics onto something that does not have those characteristics.
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Satkaryavāda
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A theory of causality that maintains that the effect already exists in the cause and that nothing “new” is created.
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Vivartavāda
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The theory that the effect is only an apparent manifestation of its cause.
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Li
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Appropriate behavior within the five constant relationships out of which society is built.
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Rectification of names
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The Confucian term for being true to one’s role/name in relations. What we ought to do follows from what the names of our relations mean.
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Five constant relationships
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parent-child
husband-wife elder-younger sibling ruler-subject friend-friend |
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Tao (dao) in Taoism
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The natural manifold field or wayof all things without individuation.
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Jen (ren)
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The way a human being shows his/her humanity by acting benevolently toward others.
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Chün Tzu (junzi)
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In Confucianism the ideal person who has become a fully virtuous human being.
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Wen
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The arts—specifically music, literature, song/poetry, painting—practiced by the chün tzu.
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Yin and yang
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The Chinese name for two complementary but opposite forces in the universe.
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Ch’i(Qi)
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Chinese word for vital force that is a matter-energy throughout the universe and within each thing or person.
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Tê (De) in Daoism
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Within the field of tao, têis the “power*” of things to be themselves by “virtue” of what they are.
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Wu-wei
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Daoistterm for acting without agenda, accomplishing what needs to be done by working with, instead of against, natural processes
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Tzu-jan
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Taoist term for the Way of Nature to be emulated by the Taoist sage: the “spontaneity” of acting “naturally” so that things “automatically happen of themselves.”
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Atman
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Pure essence of self
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