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34 Cards in this Set
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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 |