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buddism
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Religious Studies
Undergraduate 1
02/20/2013

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anatman
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no eternal elf
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anitya
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impermanance
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arhant
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a worthy one who has followed to the buddha's path to liberation
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bhikshu
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a monk or nun who renounces wordliness for the sake of foloowing liberation
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bodhisattva
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a person dedicated to liberating others from sufferring
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deity yoga
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vajrayana meditation on a deity in order to develop qualities
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dharma
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the teachings and laws for conduct given by the buddha
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dukkha
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discomfort,sufferring ,frustration ,disharmony
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karma
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actions,laws and effect
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kensho
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a sudden experience of enlightend awareness
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koan
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a question used by zen teachersw to boggle the student mind
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lama
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a high vajrayana teacher
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mahayanna
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the great vehicle ...the biddist school that stress the atruistics wish to become perfectley awakened in order to free all living beings from sufferring
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nirvana
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liberation from mental affliction , sufferring and rebirth
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samsara
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cyclic exsistence ,the continual round birth ,death and rebirth
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sangha
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the monastic community , more broadly , a dharma community
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stupa
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monument containing buddhist relics or images
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theravada
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the remaining orthodox school of buddism ,which adheres to the earliest scriptures
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triple gem
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the buddha ,the dharma , and the sangha
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vajryanana
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a branch of mahayanna buddism practiced in the tibetan diaspra that incorprates deity yoga
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zazen
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sitting meditation in zen schools
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zen
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a chinese and japenese school emphasizing that all things have buddha nature
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