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(DMS) Buddhism
Buddhism
Question | Answer |
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Siddhartha Guatama | The Indian prince who sat beneath a Bodhi tree for 49 days and became the "Enlightened One", or the Buddha. |
The Buddha | The "Enlightened One" |
Four Noble Truths | One of the first teachings of Buddha that described that life was full of suffering, that suffering was caused by desires, and that the only way to escape suffering was to follow the Eightfold Path. |
The Eightfold Path | Guidelines to living that described how a Buddhist can escape suffering in life. |
Buddhism | The religion based on the teachings of the Buddha. |
Enlightenment | The elimination of the desire for worldly things. |
nirvana | Enlightenment; the elimination of the desire of worldly things. |
karma | "What goes around comes around." The Buddhist belief that a person's actions effect their life. |
reincarnation | Rebirth; lives are like "passing of a flame from one candle to the next". |
Nepal | The place where Siddhartha Gautama was born and Buddhism originated. |
meditation | Focused religious thought. |
nontheism | A religion that does not emphasize the worship of god/gods. |