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Details Title: Ethnomusicology Description: Religious terms for Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam Total Flash Cards: 30 Created: 02/12/2006 19:48:06	To study from this set of flash cards, or to create your own your own study flash cards, register HERE. If you are already a registered user, CLICK HERE.
Cards Term Sanskrit Definition language of Aryans of Indo-European origins (Hindu) Term Nada Brahma Definition sacred causal sound; underlying foundation of all musical sound (Hindu) Term mantra Definition recited meditation and sacred utterance, vehicle of thought (h) Term bhajan Definition devotional songs in various Indian languages and styles; loosely organized songs (h) Term Brahmans Definition custodians of vedas; highest caste; supreme being/truth (h) Term Ramayana Definition lower class religious text, very long; humanly created fifth veda; part of smrti (h) Term sruti Definition the four vedas; devine compositions (h) Term dharma Definition justice, faith, duty; religous and social obligations (h) Term bhakti Definition devotion to God; devotional music cultivated through lineages (h) Term raga Definition Indian modal system (h) Term Theradvada Definition most orthodox division of Buddhism; make salvation attainable through monastism (b) Term karma Definition reincarnation; pay for last life (b) Term samigha/samgha Definition order of monks/ disciples (b) Term paritta Definition apotropaic chants in theravada schools; spells used in ceremonies (b) Term nirvana Definition ultimate reality, provisional and relative usefulness; found in Mahayana (b) Term mudra Definition hand symbols w/ isoteric meanings (b) Term mu'yu Definition fish-shaped musical instrument box; chinese instrument (b) Term tantra Definition offshoot of Mahayana; rigerous mental disciplines (b) Term shakuhachi Definition bamboo flute (Japanese); importance lies in silence and space (b) Term Bodhisattva Definition path of becoming enlightened (b) Term mizmor/psalm Definition sacred hymn (j) Term shofar Definition ram's horn instrument (j) Term ta'amim Definition hebrew; notation signs for language (j) Term hazan/cantor Definition learned singers of hymns (j) Term piyyut Definition new form of metrical hymn for Sephardic Jews; created outside of the temple (non-sacred) (j) Term Bar'mitzvah Definition age 13; son of commandments; coming of age ceremony; ability to lead prayers (j) Term payatan Definition poet, musician, voluntary reader of ritual (j) Term Ladino Definition spanish/Jewish Sephardic language (j) Term cantillation Definition liturgical chanting; singing of scripture (j) Term hassidim Definition modern form of Jewish tradition; more joyful worship of God