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100 Cards in this Set
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Siddharta Guatama |
The Buddha |
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"Miraculous" Birth |
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Queen Maya |
The Mother of Buddha |
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"Prophecy" of Asita |
Predicted buddha would become a religious leader |
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the "Castle" |
where buddha returned and kissed his wife and child and left into the woods |
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Channa |
a disciple of the buddha |
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Rahula |
the son of buddha |
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the 4 passing sights |
1.old age 2. illness 3. death 4. Withdrawal from the world |
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The "Great Going Forth" |
when he was 29 years old, he became a forest-dweller for six years. |
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the 4 noble truths |
1. Dukkha (suffering) 2. Tanha (We suffer because we are attached) 3.Nirvana 4. Path or a way that has 8 ways to non attachment |
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Pratitya-samputpada |
the philosophy of dependent origination |
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anatman |
no self |
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Anicca |
impermanence |
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Sunyata |
not self, emptiness, |
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Nirvana |
perfect peace and happiness like heaven |
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Dukkha |
suffering, (the first noble truth) |
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Tanha |
we suffer because we are attached (the second noble truth) |
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Theravada |
a form of Buddhism, They are more conservative |
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Arhat |
someone who has attained the goal of the religious life. |
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Mahayana |
the dominant form of buddhism |
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Bodhisattva |
a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings. |
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Sangha |
the Buddhist community of monks, nuns, novices, and laity. |
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Dharma |
the teaching or religion of the Buddha. |
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Buddah |
One who has achieved a state of perfect spiritual enlightenment, therebyattaining nirvana. |
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the 8 fold path |
Right Understanding Right thought Right speech Right conduct Right means for making a living Right mental attitude Right Mindfulness Right Concentration |
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The middle path/way |
is the term that Gautama Buddha used to describe the character of the Noble Eightfold Path he discovered that leads to liberation. |
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Bodhi |
in Buddhism is the understanding possessed by a Buddha regarding the true nature of things. It is traditionally translated into English with the word enlightenment, although its literal meaning is closer to "awakening." |
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Buddha nature |
the ability to wake up to buddha nature, to understand |
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Upaya |
is a term used in Mahayana Buddhism to refer to an aspect of guidance along the Buddhist Paths to liberation where a conscious, voluntary action is driven by an incomplete reasoning about its direction. |
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the 10 open questions |
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Lotus Sutra |
one of the most important texts in Mahayana Buddhism, significant particularly in China and Japan and given special veneration by the Nichiren sect. |
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Indras net |
s a metaphor used to illustrate the concepts of Śūnyatā (emptiness), pratītyasamutpāda (dependent origination), and interpenetration in Buddhist philosophy. |
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metta |
means benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, amity, friendship, good will, kindness, and active interest in others. |
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Vajrayana |
the Tantric tradition of Buddhism, especially when regarded as distinct from the Mahayana tradition from which it developed. |
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Ch'an |
from Sanskrit dhyāna (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"), is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism combined with Taoism. |
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Zen |
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Dhyana |
profound meditation that is the penultimate stage of yoga |
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Vipassana |
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the 3 marks |
Suffering impermanence not self |
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the 5 skandhas |
aggregates or heaps are: matter or body (rupa), sensations or feelings (vedana), perceptions (samjna), mental formations (sankhara), and consciousness (vijnana). |
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the 4 foundations |
mindfulness of the body mindfulness of feelings or sensations mindfulness of mind or consciousness mindfulness of dhammās. |
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koan |
a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to demonstrate the inadequacy of logical reasoning and to provoke enlightenment. |
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zazen |
seated meditation |
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sanzen |
means going to a Zen master for instruction. |
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satori |
satori refers to the experience of kenshō, "seeing into one's true nature". |
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kensho |
ones true nature |
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Hui-neng |
a seminal figure in Buddhist history. He is the famous “Sixth Patriarch” of the Chan or meditation tradition, which is better known in Japanese as "Zen". |
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Bodidharma |
Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk who lived during the 5th or 6th century. He is traditionally credited as the transmitter of Chan Buddhism to China, and regarded as its first Chinese patriarch. |
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Joshu |
oshu (in Chinese, "Chao-chou") lived from approximately 778 - 897 C.E. and was one of the earliest and greatest of the Chinese Zen masters. He is well known for his answer of "mu" to the question, "Does a dog have Buddhanature?" |
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Dogen |
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Tao |
is a Chinese word signifying 'way', 'path', 'route', or sometimes more loosely, 'doctrine' or 'principle'. |
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ch'i |
Ch'i (also spelled Chi or Qi) is a fundamental concept in Chinese philosophy and culture. Found in Chinese traditional religion but especially Taoism, Ch'i literally means "air" or "breath," but as a concept it refers to the energy flow or life force that is said to pervade all things. |
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li |
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I Ching |
a text that is an ancient manual to magic |
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trigram |
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shen |
male or form of energy or spirit that is associated with bright, light, sunny, dry, summer ,spring, sun, very good. |
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kuei |
female, associated with dark wet, cave, moon, fall, winter and is very bad |
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Lao-Tzu |
does not believe that society will get better. "path to immortality" |
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Tao-te-ching |
the Chinese version of the bible |
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Yin |
receptive |
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Yang |
assertive |
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Wu-wei |
how to get things done without doing nothing |
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Feng-shui |
energy control, the practice of recognizing energy flow and using it to your advantage, and what direction it flows. |
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ch'i-kung |
energy practice. the art of tranformating your body into something that wont age using the natural energy to turn you body into a verb |
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ching |
pure nonmaterial spirit, something that is inside of you that is asleep. |
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chen |
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T'ai-chi ch'uan |
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Kung fut-zu or master kung |
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Analects |
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the great learning |
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Tao/chi/li |
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Li |
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hsiao |
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Confucian "Golden Rule" |
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Jen |
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Chun-tzu |
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Te |
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Wen |
art, music form of ritual that helps you experience the push and pull of yin and yang |
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5 right relationships |
father son older brother younger brother husband wife older friend founder friend ruler subject |
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Shen |
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Tao |
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kami-no-michi |
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Kami |
same as chi, power, energy, spirit,the kami are gods |
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Torii |
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Jinja |
secular shinto |
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Kami-dana |
god shelf |
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Butsu-dana |
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Honji-suijaku |
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Tama |
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Mitama |
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kamikaze |
a devine wind |
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Yasukuni Shrine |
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Shmenawa |
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Makoto no Kokoro |
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Mono no aware |
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Tsumi |
dirty |
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Misogi |
cleanyless, helpless you loose yourself |
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kojiki |
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Nihon shoki |
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Motoori Norinanaga |
two ideas |
