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Hindu Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Vedas | Scripts of the Eternal Revealed |
| Atman | Individual Soul |
| Karma | The Law of Cause and Effect |
| Samsara | Endless Rounds of Existence |
| Moksha | The release from the cycle of Birth Life and Rebirth |
| Brahman | Supreme principle of life |
| Brahma | The Creator God, one of the Hindu Triad |
| Brahmin | Member of the top Caste in India |
| Vishnu or Visnu | Preserver |
| Shiva or Siva | Destroyer |
| Asana | Body Postures |
| Mudras | Hand Positions |
| Mantras | Chanting Holy Words |
| Avatars | Incarnations of a Supreme reality |
| Nirvana | "Blow out the candle" |
| Hinduism | The Worlds Oldest Extant Religion |
| Parvatii | Shiva's consort |
| 4.32 billion years | Kalpa |
| A day in the life of Brahma | Kalpa |
| Buddism's favorite flower | Lotus |
| Budda to be/ reached enlightenment but choose to say in the cylce to help others | Bodhisattva |
| Cranial Bump | Ushnisha |
| The International Style of Buddhist sculpture | Gupta |
| Budda's Mother | Queen Maya |
| Sage of the Shaka-Clan | Shakyamuni |
| Two Major types of Buddism | Theravada, Mahayana |
| Where Budda first preached | Sarnath |
| A fully enlightened being in Buddism | Budda |
| To pray by walking in a circle | Circlambulation |
| The type of buddism that goes to Japan | Mahayana |
| In Asia, Life is? | Suffering,Illusion,Impermanant |
| Budda's princely name | Siddhartha Gautama |
| International Style | Gupta |
| Name 5 features associated with vishnu | 1.Conch Shell 2.Discus 3.Varaha 4.Krishna 5.Preserver |
| Name at least 5 Iconographic points of the Budda's Image | 1.Ushnisha 2.Urna 3.Mudra 4.Asana 5.Mantra 5.Long earlobes |
| Path of Elders | Therevada |
| Greater Path | Mahayana |
| Name Budda's 4 Noble Truths | 1.Life is suffering 2.Cause of suffering is too much desire 3.To end suffering you must end desire 4.To end desire you must follow the 8 fold path(middle way) |
| Name the Budda's 4 encounters | 1.sick man 2.old man 3.dead man 4.religious man |
| Therevada | belives in one original buddah who was enlightened at 29 |
| Mahayana | belives in many buddah's and in bodhisatvas |
| Nmae the 4 most important places in Historical Buddah's life | 1.Lumbini 2.Bodh Gaya 3.Sarnath 4.Kushinagara |
| Lumbini | Buddha's birthplace |
| Bodh Gaya | Buddah's enlightenment |
| Sarnath | Buddah's first sermon |
| Kushinagara | Buddah's release from the cyle into Nirvana |
| WHen Brahma sleeps there is? | Chaos |
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