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33 Cards in this Set
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Aryans
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White race
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Sri Aurobindo
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(1827-1950) – underwent a transformative religious experience that led him to practice and teach yoga, and taught that world reform comes through spiritual development of the self
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M. K. Gandhi
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(1869-1948) – turned to the resources within his Hindu tradition to improve India’s social conditions and resist British imperial rule
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Indra
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In Vedic Hinduism, God of Weather and War, King of the Gods
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Tara
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In Mahayana Buddhism, a female who can experiance "nirvana" but chooses not to in order to preach
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Suddhodana
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was the father of Siddhartha Gautama, later known as the Buddha
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Sthanakvasis
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is a sect of Jainism originally founded by a merchant named Lavaji about 1653 CE [1] that believes that God is 'nirakar' (without form) and hence do not pray to any statue.
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Shiva
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Hinduism, Shiva is seen as the Supreme God
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Agni
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In Hindu, God of Fire
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Bodhidharma
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Buddhist monk from southern India who lived during the early 5th century and is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Zen to China
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Drayidians
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people that natively speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. Populations of speakers are found mostly in southern India
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Nichiren
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was a Buddhist monk who lived during the Kamakura period (1185-1333) in Japan
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Saicho
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Japanese Buddhist monk credited with founding the Tendai school in Japan
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Shakyamuni
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Siddhārtha Gautama a spiritual teacher in the north eastern region of the Indian subcontinent who founded Buddhism
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Tathagata
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the name the historical Buddha used when referring to himself while he was alive
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Mahavira
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According to Jain tradition, he was the 24th and the last Tirthankara
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Ramakrishna
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was a famous mystic of 19th-century India
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Krishna
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is a deity worshiped across many traditions in Hinduism in a variety of perspectives
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Bosatsu
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or Bodhisattva, Individual who can experiance "nirvana" but chooses not to in order to preach
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Gelugpa
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also known as the Yellow Hat sect, is a school of Buddhism founded by Tsongkhapa (1357–1419), a philosopher and Tibetan religious leader
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Zhiyi
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lly listed as the fourth patriarch, but actually is the founder of the Tiantai tradition of Buddhism in China
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Nyingmapa
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tradition is the oldest of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism (the other three being the Kagyu, Sakya and Gelug). "Nyingma" literally means "ancient," and is often referred to as the "school of the ancient translations" or the "old school"
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Kukai
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was a Japanese monk, scholar, poet, and artist, founder of the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism
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Guanyin
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is the bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by East Asian Buddhists, usually as a female
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Ashoka
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was an Indian emperor of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost all of the Indian subcontinent from 269 BC to 232 BC. One of India's greatest emperors
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Agamas
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a collection of Early Buddhist scriptures, of which there are four
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Antyesti
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Hindu funeral rites
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Mahayanists
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Conservative in theology, consider buddah a savior or god
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Shinran
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was a Japanese Buddhist monk
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Maitreya
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is a future Buddha of this world in Buddhist eschatology
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Yashodhara
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is chiefly famous as the wife of Prince Siddhartha, who became known as Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism
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Theravadins
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literally, "the Teaching of the Elders" or "the Ancient Teaching", is the oldest surviving Buddhist school. It was founded in India. It is relatively conservative, and generally closest to early Buddhism
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Parshva
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was the twenty-third Tirthankara (fordmaker) in Jainism
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