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45 Cards in this Set
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Koyannisqatsi
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This is the Hopi word for "Life out of balance"
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mitakuye oyasin
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Lakota for "all my relations"
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atman
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Sanskirt for "eternal soul"
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bhakti
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Hindu concept of devotional service to a personal god.
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jiva
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Hinduisms the physical/psychological/social karmic self. not eternal
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karma
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Sanskirt for "action" the chain of cause and effect
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dharma
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Sanskirt for "duty" or the way things are intended to be.
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sangha
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the Buddhist order of monks and nuns
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anatta/anatman
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Buddhist teaching that humans have no permanent self or soul.
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dukkha
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Pali for "suffering"
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anicca
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Pali for "impermanence"
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Jiva
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spiritual/ eternal soul
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ahimsa
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noninjury to all life-Jainism,Hinduism, and Buddhism
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de (te)
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Chinese for "power" "virtue"
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wu wei
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Daoist concept of "actionless action"
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Yin and yang
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complementary or opposite forces. Chinese tradition...
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ren (jen)
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confucian virtue of humaneness
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li
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concucian virtue of "propriety, right form"
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Amitabha
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heavenly Budda of the Western Paradise
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bodhisattva
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Sanskirt for "a being intended for enlightenment"
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Bardo Thodol
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Tibetan Book of the Dead
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Kami
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Japanese for "the sacred"
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Mishnah
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Hebrew for "teaching, tradition, study" oral Torah
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Midrash
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interpretation of the Tanak, verse by verse commentary
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Allah
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Arabic term for "God"
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Hadith
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Arabic for "speech, news, event" traditions
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Sharia
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Muslim "Law"
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jihad
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Arabic for "struggle, exertion" Muslims
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Secular Religion
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nonspiritual, worldly ultimacies
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theism
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belief in one or more personal dieties
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monotheism
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belief in one god
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polytheism
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belief in mulitple gods
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atheism
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denial of the existence of a personal god.
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Indigenous
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Originating in or pertaining to a particular area or region
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asceticism
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active self denial for the purpose of spirtiual fulfillment
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Abrahamic religions
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Judaism Christianity and Islam
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anthropocentric
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the view that humans are at the center of creation
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biocentric
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all living beings form one community (humans are not the center)
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covenant
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an agreement characterized by mutual loyalty and trust.
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tirthankaras
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crossing finders or markers
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ajiva
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very subtle matter that forms karma
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xiao
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filial peity
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seppuku
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ritual suicide
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Islam
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Peace and submission
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Religion
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human transformation in response to perceived ultimacy
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