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42 Cards in this Set
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Tsumi |
Bad stuff on soul |
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Buddhist Dharma |
place in life |
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Hindu Dharma |
social responsibilities |
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wu wei |
to go with the flow of things |
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shiva |
the destroyer; great ascetic |
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maya |
power by which the absolute veils itself |
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shruti |
the Vedas |
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smrti |
epics, laws of manu, and puranas |
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the vedas |
rig veda(hymns),Brahmanas(directions for ritual sacrifice), Arankyakas(‘forest treatises), and Upanishads(wisdom,mystical,renunciate) |
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Samsara |
the six realms of rebirth in Buddhism which are the Hell Realm, Hungry Ghost, Animal, Human, Jealous God, and Pleasure God |
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Jain Ethical Principles |
Ahisma(nonviolence), Aparigraha(nonattachment), Anekantwad(nonabsolutism) |
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Dao De Jing |
the main text for Daoism which was written by Laozi around 350 BCE; poetic and mystical |
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The Analects |
a collection of sayings and proverbs attributed to Confucius, or Kong Fuzi; social etiquette |
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Atman |
the permanent self or soul |
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Anatman |
no separate, permanent self, but rather the human being is an impermanent composition |
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Yin |
dark, female, and receptive aspect |
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Yang |
bright, male, and assertive aspect |
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Shakti |
power of female gods; Durga(Shiva), Lakshmi(Vishnu), Saraswatti(Brahma) |
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The Four Sights of Buddha |
1. sick person 2. old person 3. dead person 4. renunciate |
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Puja |
devotional worship in Hinduism; major religious practice |
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Dukkha |
suffering; Buddhist |
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Theraveda |
“way of the elders”; Pali Canon; the triple gem |
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Mahayana |
second turning; bodhisattva; sutras(chants); the three bodies of Buddha |
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Vajrayana |
Lamas(teachers); tantras(scriptures); strict teachings; mandalas; no attachment to results |
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Tipitaka |
* scholastic treatises
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The Three Poisons |
attachment, aversion, and ignorance |
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Ren |
innate goodness, love, and benevolence of humanity |
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The Triple Gem |
a person is said to take refuge in the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha |
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Sunyata |
emptiness in the sense that the world is void of any true or inherent existence |
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Kami |
“being which is above”; spirits; god(s); in the natural world |
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Kannagara |
worship of Kami |
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Ganesh |
elephant face boy; son of Shiva and Parvati |
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Mahavir |
buddha in jainism |
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Ashram |
a place for Hindu practitioners to live separately from society |
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Karma(Hindu and Buddhist) |
the law of cause and effect that governs reincarnation |
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Karma(Jain) |
the bad stuff on your soul and you have to get rid of it |
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Asceticism |
abstinence from worldly pleasures |
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Bodhisattva |
person who becomes enlightened and reincarnates as a teacher |
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Castes |
Brahmins - priests Kshatriyas - warriors and rulers Vaisyas - skilled traders, merchants, minor officials Sutras - unskilled workers Pariahs - outcasts |
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The Five Precepts of Buddhism |
avoid destroying life, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, intoxicants |
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The Four Noble Truths |
life is suffering(dukkah), dukkah is caused by craving, dukkah can be overcome when craving and clinging cease, the way to voercome suffering is the eightfold path |
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The Noble Eigthfold Path |
right understanding right thought or motivation right speech right action right livelihood right effort right mindfulness right meditation |
