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Arhat

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Saint that reached nirvana; released from Samsara

2
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Bhikkhu

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Buddhist monk

3
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Bodhisattva

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Being wanting to be fully enlightened

4
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Buddha

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Enlightened one

5
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Dalai Lama

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Spiritual and political leader of Tibetans

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Dharma

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The truth; teaching of the buddha

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Eightfold Path

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Toward Nirvana, the right:

  1. Views
  2. Resolve
  3. Speech
  4. Conduct
  5. Livelihood
  6. Effort
  7. Mindfulness
  8. Concentration
8
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Five Precepts

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Moral precepts, to refrain from:

  1. Destroying life
  2. Taking what is not given
  3. Wrongful sex
  4. Wrongful speech
  5. Drugs and liquor
9
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Four noble truths

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Teachings from Buddha:

  1. Truth of sorrow
  2. Cause of sorrow
  3. Overcoming sorrow
  4. Path to follow
10
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Four Sights

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Lead Buddha to seek enlightenment:

  1. Sickness
  2. Old age
  3. Death
  4. Wandering hermit
11
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Impermanence

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Change is characteristic of everything that arises

12
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Karma

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All deeds and thoughts have consequences

13
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Mantra

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Powerful sacred words for meditation

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Nirvana

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Liberation form suffering and rebirth

15
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Parinirvana

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Complete liberation achieved at death

16
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Rebirth

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Belief that after death the accumulated karma with cause rebirth

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Samsara

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Rebirth cycle of existence

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Sangha

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Communities of buddhist monks and nuns

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Skandhas

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A person is a changing process in:

  1. Physical matter
  2. Sensations
  3. Perceptual Activities
  4. Impluses to actions
  5. Bits of consciousness
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Theravada

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Teaching of the elders

21
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Three refuges

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I take refuge in: the Dharma, Buddha, and the Sangha

22
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Vinaya

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Rules for Buddhist monastic life