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Hinduism and Budism
religions in the Indus river valley
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Vedas | Books of knowledge that contain the basic beliefs of Hinduism |
| Caste System | Organizes all of Indias Hindu people into hundreds of groups and levels. |
| Reincarnation | Cycle of birth, death and rebirth where each rebirth is a punishment or reward for the life one led before |
| Dharma | Laws and duties provided by the Vedas; includes hundreds of rules that tell the Hindus of each caste how to live. |
| Outcastes | People who married against the rules of their caste or did a job their caste was not permitted to do |
| Siddhartha Gautama | Buddha, born in 563 BC in a small kingdom of India, a prince who gave up all he had to become a monk to seach for the meaning of life. |
| Buddha | Awakened one |
| Karma | A force caused by a persons good and bad acts, affects a persons future lives |
| Eightfold path | A set of instructions on the proper way for Buddhists to live to end the suffering in their lives |
| The Middle way | A way of living where the laws of the eightfold path are not to strict or too easy |
| enlightenment | the path Buddha set his followers on |
| Buddhism | A religion that came about when Siddhartha Gautama, a rich prince of Northern India, sought a way to end suffering in the world by living according to the Four Noble truths and following the teachings of the Eightfold path. |