CWC China
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elizabeth_worstell on January 25, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 legalism | founded by han fei tzu |
| taoism | founded by lao tzu |
| confucianism | everyone has to play a proper role, stay in your place |
| Wade-Giles Translation | simplified chinese, came before pinyin |
| Pinyin | simplified chinese, more modern than wade-gales and used more |
| Impermanence | key belief of buddhism, nothing is permanent, everything in life changes |
| Trishna | buddhist concept of desire, why humans will never be satisfied |
| simplified chinese | 1952, fewer strokes per character |
| Nirvana | to reach enlightenment by freeing yourself from want |
| Noble Eightfold Path | knowledge of the cause and end of suffering, kind thoughts, right speech, right conduct, "practice what you preach", right effort to train oneself, keen and active mind, meditate: cleanse the mind |
| middle path | everything is in moderation |
| Wu Wei | do nothing |
| Filial Piety | a very important confucian virtue: respect your parents |
| first truth | all good things must come to an end |
| second truth | as long as humans continue to want things they will never be happy |
| third truth | in order to end suffering, humans must free themselves from want |
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