Hinduism & Buddhism
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clarisse_xx on November 5, 2010
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31 terms
Malay | English |
|---|---|
| Pantheism (H) |  Everything is God |
| Scruti (Shruti) (H) | Heard writings |
| Dvija (H) | The twice-born ceremony |
| Agni (H) | God of fire |
| Vedas (H) | Earliest Hindu writings |
| Saivism (H) | Devotion to god Siva |
| Moksha (H) | Escape into the one eternal reality |
| Samsara (H) | The 'running around' - entrapment |
| Vaishnavism (H) | Devotion to god Vishnu |
| Indra (H) | Warrior and storm god |
| Atman (H) | The Soul |
| Smriti (H) | Remembered writings |
| Sanatana Dharma (H) | Eternal law/religion |
| Margas (H) | Paths to salvation |
| Dharma (H) | Duty |
| Karma (H) | Actions that determine future existence |
| Samskara (B) | Mental formations |
| Asceticism (B) | Deny all earthly comforts - striving for mystic consciousness |
| Dukkha (B) | Suffering - broad term |
| Theravada Buddhism (B) | School of elders |
| Siddhartha Gautama (B) | The Buddha - the founder of Buddhism |
| Vijnana (B) | Consciousness |
| Karma (B) | Wilful action contributing to life's chain of cause and effect |
| Majjhima Patipada (B) | The middle path, rejecting the extremes of pleasure and pain |
| Nirvana (B) | The 'blowing out' or extinction of all desire |
| Buddhahood (B) | Ultimate Nirvana |
| Bodhisattva (B) | The path of the one whose essence is Buddha |
| Vedana (B) | Sensations |
| Rupa (B) | Matter |
| Samjna (B) | Perception |
| Zen Buddhism (B) | Extension of the meditative tradition within Buddhism |
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