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35 Cards in this Set
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ahimsa
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"nonharm"
"nonviolent" |
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ashram
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spiritual community
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atman
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the spiritual essence of all individual beings
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bhagavad Gita
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a religous literary work about krishna
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brahmin
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a member of the priestly caste
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dhyana
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meditation
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maya
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"illusion"
what keeps us from seeing reality correctly |
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bodhi
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enlightenment
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Dharma (buddhism)
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the totality of buddhist teaching
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dukkah
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sorrow, misery
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karuna
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compassion, empathy
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koan
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a word puzzle
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trikaya (the three bodies)
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-dharmakaya
-nirmanakaya -sambhogakaya |
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jina
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"conquerer"
-the jain term for a perfected person who will not be reborn |
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sellakhana
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"holy death"
death by self-starvation, valued in jainism as a noble end to a long life of virtue and detachment |
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junzi
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"noble person"
the refined human ideal of confucianism -a perfect gentleman |
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li
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appropriate action, ritual, propriety, etiquette
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ren
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empathy, consideration for others, humaneness; a confucian virtue
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shu
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reciprocity
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wen
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cultural refinement
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xiao
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family devotion, filial piety
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bushido
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"warrior knight way"
military devotion to a a ruler, demanding loyalty, duty, and self-sacrifice; an ideal promoted by State Shinto |
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kami
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a spirit, god, or goddess of shinto
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misogi
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ritual purification that involves standing under a waterfall
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midrash
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"search"
rabbinical commentary on the scriptures and oral law |
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purim
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a joyous festival in early spring that recalls the Jews being saved from destruction, as told in teh bood of Esther
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Rosh Hashanah
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"beginning of the year"
celebration of the Jewish New Year, occuring the seventh lunar month |
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sukkot
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"booths"
a festival in the late autumn that recalls the jews period of wandering in the desert after their exodus from egypt |
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Talmud
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an encyclopedic commentary on the Hebrew scriptures
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apocalypticism
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the belief that the world will soon come to an end; this belief usually includes the notion of a great battle, final judgement, and reward of the good
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caliph
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"successor"
a religious and political leader |
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dhikr
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a devotional remembrance of allah through the recitation of his 99 names and other devotional practices
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imam
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a religious leader, specifically, on of the hereditary successors of muhammad, wnerated in shiite islam
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jihad
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"struggle"
the ideals both of spreading islamice belief and of heroic self-sacrifice |
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muezzin
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a chanter who calls people to prayer
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