Buddhism

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Anicca

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Everything is constantly changing

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Anatman

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"No Self" Buddha denied the permanent identity of anything

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Duhkha

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suffering/sorrow/dissatisfaction because there is constant change

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Three marks of Reality

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Anicca
Anatman
Duhkha

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Basic Teachings

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-Middle way
-Four Noble truths
-Nirvana

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Middle Way

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We don't find answers in extremes
-Balance

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Four Noble Truths

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-All life is suffering
-suffering comes from desire
-To end suffering, end desire
-The way is the eight-fold path

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Nirvana

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"to blow out", It is the liberation, the end of suffering

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Eight-fold path (NO one can escape suffering, but suffering can be overcome through the eight-fold path)

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-Right understanding
-Right thought
-Right speech
-Right action
-Right livelihood (Kill as little as possible)
-Right effort
-Right Mindfulness
-Right Concentration

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Five elements or skandhas people are made up of

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-Form(Physical Shape)
-Feelings/Perception (The picture the mind forms out of data transmitted by the sense organs)
-The inherent impulses(Karmic dispositions)
-Background consciousness
*Five elements split and come back together*

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Three Jewels (What monks recite when they meditate)

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-I take refuge in the Buddha
-I take refuge in the Dharma(the collection of Buddha's teaching)
-I take refuge in the Samgha (the Buddhist monastic order, the community of monks)

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Rules of Life (For everyone!)

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-No taking life
-No taking what is not given to you
-No sexual misconduct
-No lying
-No taking intoxicants

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Rules of Life (Monastic Order)

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-No taking life
-No taking what is not given to you
-No sexual misconduct
-No lying
-No taking intoxicants
-No eating after noon
-No watching or participating in singing or shows
-No adorning oneself with garlands, perfume or oinments
-No sleeping in soft bed
-No handling money

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Who turned Buddhism into a missionary religion?

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King Ashoka

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Splits in Buddhidm

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-Theravada
-Mahayana
-Vajrayana

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Theravada Buddhism

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-"School of the elders"
-Took a conservative approach
-Based on the Tripitaka or "Three Baskets"
-Young men spend one year as a monk
-Meditation is the key to emulate the Buddha
-The key is the Arhat or fully enlightened being- one who suffers no more rebirths.

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Tripitika or "Three Baskets"

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-The rules of monastic conducts
-The Buddha's discourses- sutras, sermon dialogue
-Doctrinal Principles- "The works that go beyond the elementary teaching"

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The six different worlds in Theravada

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-The hell realm
-The realm of hungry ghost (greed)
-The animal realm
-The realm of ogres
-The human realm (desire)
-The heavens of the gods

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Two Types of meditation (Theraveda)

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Samadhi- Explores the higher states above matter and form
Vipassana- Employs three hard hitting topics

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Vipassana

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-Impermanence of all things
-All is unsatisfactory

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Merit of laity

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-Laity receive merit given to monks
-Trying to follow the first five precepts
-Making monastery improvements

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Art and Architecture (Therivanna)

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-Lotus flower
-set of footprints
Eight-spooked wheel representing the eight-fold path
-Stupas- large mounds over remains of Buddhist monks

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Mahayana Buddhism

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-nirvana is available to everyone
-Dharmakaya- everyone has Buddha nature
-Bodhisattva replaces Arhat (people can hold back before nirvana to help other people get to nirvana)

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Nagarjuna

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-Greatest philosophical force in the emergence of Mahayana Buddhism
-Two main principles
-Nirvana and Samsara are not different
-The cosmos is void
-The secret is wisdom or prajna- seeing things without attachment

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Asanga and Vasubandhu

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-Claimed that Nagarjuna's principle of void is actually mind/pure consciousness
-Yogacara or mind only

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Three Buddha Bodies(M buddhism)

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Dharmakaya
Sambhogakaya
Nirmanakaya

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Dharmakaya

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"Truth body" how the universe looks to a Buddha at the moment of enlightenment

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Sambhogakaya

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"Bliss body", Supernatural Buddhas live in heavens beyond our earth

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Nirmanakaya

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"Transformation body", Buddha nature expressed in this world

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Vajrayana Buddhism

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-"Diamond Vehicle"
-Drew on tantrism from hinduism
-Sexual union and the union of male and female quantities
-Dalai Lama
-Tibetan Book of the Dead

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Dalai lama

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Kind of like the avatar (The last Airbender)

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Bardo Tho Dol

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Bardo means Gap. It takes 49 days in between death and rebirth. The book of the dead is read to the dead in hopes that the dead can hear.

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Zen Buddhism

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-Developed from yogacara
-School of dhyana(meditation)
-"sitting quietly doing nothing"
-Koan - spiritual puzzle
- Zazen- seated meditation

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Pure land Buddhism (Western land)

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-offers gradualism in reaching nirvana
-Amitabha Buddha reach enlightenment
-Through compassion he helps others who call his name