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65 Cards in this Set
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Translate Bhagavad Gita
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Song of God
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Who are the two main characters in the Gita?
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Arjuna-student and Krishna-mentor
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Atman
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True Self
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Vaidhi-Bhakti
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Methodology towards nonattachment. Practice of distancing yourself from attachments and focusing on one thing to prepare for focusing only on Krishna
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Founder and date of Buddhism?
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Siddartha Guatma, 6th-5th Century BCE
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What are the Four Noble Truths?
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1. life is sufering 2. suffering comes from attachments 3. nonattachment is possible bc of the 8 fold path 4. nirvana
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Empiricism
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Without experience there can be no knowledge
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Is there a self? (Napa Rupa)
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No
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Three marks of existence?
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impermanence/changing,
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Buddhism Vs Hinduism (Buddhism)
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napa rupa
8 fold path non attachment virvana as bliss |
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Buddhism Vs. Hinduism
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False Ego
Yogas Non attachment Atman |
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What tradition is aimed at systemaizing the Upanishads + Gita?
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Vedanta Tradition
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Where is reincarnation first mentioned?
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Upanishads
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What teaches the self as indestructable and unchanging?
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Gita and Upanishads (Answer is D)
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Chapter 10/11 focus on Krishna because it is essential to ___________
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Bhakti Yoga
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Krishna's God like properties
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Aishvarya
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Krishna's human like properties
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Madharya
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Dukkha
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Life is suffering
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Tahna
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suffering comes from attachment
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Three Marks of existence
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impermanence (anicca)
no self (annatta) suffering (dukkha) |
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What is anicca?
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Impermanence
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What is anatta?
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No Self
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Arjuna
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the hero of the Gita who stands in the middle of the battlefield unwilling to fight.
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Samjaya
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the poet with divine vision and hearing who recounts Gita for his leader.
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Krishna
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Arjuna's mentor, and incarnation of Vishnu
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Dhrtarastra
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the father of the Kauravas
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3 types of Yoga
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Bhakti Yoga: devotion and love
Karma Yoga: Focused on action and being unattached to actions Juana Yoga: Knowledge/wisdom |
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Mahabharata
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Epic Battle in the Gita
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Where does the Gita take place?
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Dharmaksetra
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Vishnu
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the god who sends down "emanations", or avataras, to help the world in times of danger.
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Hinduism includes
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Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Shaktism and Smartism
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Veda
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Knowledge
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Rig Veda depicts define in several ways
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Monism (one absolute IMPESONAL being)
Monotheism ( one single personal supreme being) Henotheism (many Gods but central deity) Narualistic Polytheism( many Gods) |
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When were the Upanishads composed and by who?
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800-500 Bce by rishis (seers)
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Upanishads can be translated as
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sitting near the teacher
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6 primary concepts of Upanishads
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Brahman, Atman, Avidya, Samsara, Karma, Moksha
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Brahman
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self awareness, unchanging reality, reality in all, ineffable, all things are in Brahman
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Atman
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true self, not identical to the body,
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Avidya
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ignorance of true nature of reality and the self. false ego
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samsara
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cycle of death and rebirth
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moksha
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termination of the cycle (freedom/bliss)
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Sat-Chit-Ananda
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being (sat) consciousness (chit) bliss (ananda)
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Buddha
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the awakened one
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The ignoble quest
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transient/material things
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Alara Kalama and Uddaka Ramaputta
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Siddartha's teachers
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The Buddha taught fundamental insights for next 45 years in the _______
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Ganges
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Three Schools of Buddhism
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Theravada (South Asian)
Mahayana (easy Asian) Vajrayana (Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, Mongolia) |
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Nama-Rupa's 5 Skandhas
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Vinnana (consciousness)
Sankhara (tendencies) Sanna (recognition of sensation) Vedana (Feelings) Rupa (physical body) |
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The Skandha-Identity Argument
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(1) “The self” is not anything other than the five skandhas (individually or collectively considered).
(2) None of the skandhas is permanent. Therefore (3) “The self” is not permanent. |
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In Buddhism, there is no..
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atman
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8 fold path
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the right view, the right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration
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nirvana
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independent of all wordly ties
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process of rebirth
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ignorance, unsatisfied desires, rebirth
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realms
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all temporary, only human and heavenly realm desriable
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hinduism AND buddhism accepts ideas of _____ & ______
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karma & samsara
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Buddhism DENIES existence of ___
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atman
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jiva
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finite self in Hinduism
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nama rupa
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finite self in Buddhism
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annica:
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impermanence
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anatta
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no self
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skhandas
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aggregates of mental and physical characteristics
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vinnana
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conciousness
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sati
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wife of shiva, reobrn as parvati
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rupa
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material objects
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Nidana
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chain of causation (Shakyamuni Buddha)
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