Quiz 5

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Abhidharma

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higher teachings;” the third part of the Buddhist canon (Tripitaka), which systematizes Buddhist
psychology in scholastic categories, questions, and answers

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Tripitaka

Back 2

“three baskets;” the Buddhist canon consisting of three divisions: Vinaya (monastic discipline),
Sutra (discourses of the Buddha), and Abhidharma (higher knowledge or commentarial literature)

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alaya-vijnana

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“storehouse consciousness;” an eighth consciousness accepted in the Yogacara (or
Consciousness Only) school that serves as a storehouse for the imprints/seeds of actions that
ripen in the future

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tathagatagarbha

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“embryo of enlightenment;” Buddha nature; the seed or potential for awakening within each
sentient being

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Therigatha

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"verses of the elders (f.)"; a collection of 73 songs of realization composed by more than 70
female arhats and accomplished religious teachers believed to confirm women’s religious
attainments at the time of the Buddha; an important resource for the study of women in early
Buddhism

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Dhammapada

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a collection of 423 verses in Pali attributed to the Buddha, including such sayings as, “Hatred
never ceases by hatred in this world; by love alone do it cease.”

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dharmas

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phenomena, constituents or fundamental elements of reality objects of perception

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Buddhaghosa

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the great 5 -century Buddhist scholar who composed the Path of Purification (Visuddhimagga)
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and Discourse on the Foundations of Mindfulness (Satipatthana-sutta), classic Theravada texts

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The Tibetan Book of the Dead

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the popular title for Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate State, a Tibetan Buddhist text that
describes the process of dying, bardo, and rebirth

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Nichiren

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A Japanese monk (1222-82) who emphasized the saving power of the Lotus Sutra in a time of
moral decline; a contentious reformer who advocated the union of politics and religion;
progenitor of the Nichiren school of Buddhism in Japan