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| First Buddhist monastic community |
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| What are the Three Jewels of Buddhism? |
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1. Buddha
2. Dharma
3. Sangha |
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| What are the Three Marks of Existence? |
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1. Ahatta - "No self"
2. Anicca - "Impermanence"
3. Dukkha - "Suffering" |
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| What are the 5 Karma precepts? |
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1. Do not take life.
2. Do not take what is not given
3. Do not engage in sensious misconduct
4. Do not use false speech
5. Do not drink intoxicants |
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1. To live is to suffer
2. Suffering is caused by desire
3. Suffering can be brought to cessation
4. The solution to suffering is the Noble Eightfold Path |
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| "Blowing out"; the ultimate goal which results in liberation from samsara |
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| Spiritual leader of Buddhism |
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| The moral law of cause and effect of actions; determines the nature of one's rebirth |
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| "Circle"; patterned icons that visually excite and are used to enhance meditation |
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| "Desire, thirst, or craving" |
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| "hrases or syllables chanted to evoke or enhance meditation |
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| Buddhist teaching that rejects both the pleasures of sensual indulgence and self-denial |
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| "Nonviolence"; the avoidance of violence toward other life-forms |
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| The non-living components of the Jain universe: space, time, motion, rest, and all other forms of matter |
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| "Those who garmet the sky" |
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| Bows that are binding for Jain ascetics: do not injure other lifeforms, avoid lying, do not steal, renounce sexual activity, and renounce possession |
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| Perfect and complete knowledge that is Jain enlightenment; liberation from samsara |
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| Jain universe depicted as having the shape of a giant man |
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