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        | presuppositions, cannot be answered, they lead to storytelling, and they are distracting
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        | Pali word for dharma, teachings, the way, how things are (no core, marked by Three Marks of Existence) |  | 
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        | worthy and accomplished, free from all snares, laid down the burden, attained nirvana |  | 
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        | full ordained male Buddhist monastic |  | 
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        | wisdom used to extinguish afflictions and bring about enlightenment |  | 
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        | emptiness, things are devoid of a core or innate essence |  | 
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        | spiritual friendship/encouraging friendship |  | 
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        | calm abiding, a meditation practice designed to improve voluntary attention, serenity |  | 
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        | insight into the impermanent nature (anicca) of mind and body |  | 
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        | come and see, the idea that a teaching should be tested out for oneself |  | 
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        | In Theravada Buddhism: a being whose aim it is to become fully enlightened; In Mahayana Buddhism: a being who compassionately refrains from entering nirvana to save others |  | 
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        | Old man, diseased man, corpse, mendicant |  | 
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        | Birth, Awakening, Teaching, Death |  | 
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        | There is suffering, There is the origin of suffering, There is the cessasion of suffering, The way to the cessation of suffering |  | 
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        | Theravada (Southeast Asia [Sri Lanka, Thailand, Burma]), conservative tradition, 250 BCE, Pali Canon, (sutta usually considered Pali), Mahayana (East Asia), turn of the century to Middle Ages, Chinese Canon, sutras, Vajrayana (Tibet) Sixth to twelth centuries, “Diamond Vehicle”, Tibetan Canon |  | 
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        | Sound View, Sound Inclination, Sound Speech, Sound Action, Sound Livelihood, Sound Effort, Sound Awareness, Sound Concentration |  | 
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        | skillful means for bringing a practicioner to Ultimate Reality |  | 
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        | bulk of what we call person, “five existential functions”, appearance, feeling, perception, conceptual fabrication, cognizance, or, form, sensation, perception, mental formation, and consciousness   rupa, vedana, samjna, samskaras, vijnana |  | 
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        | Anicca (impermanance), Dukkha (suffering/unsatisfactoriness), Annata (no permanent essence/no-Self) |  | 
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        | Dependent arising, phenomena rise together in a mutally dependent web of cause and effect |  | 
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        | Desire, the origin of suffering |  | 
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        | the field within which human life is properly lived, scope given by immediate experience (our only real way of knowing the world) |  | 
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        | 480 - 400 BCE Name: Siddartha Gautama
 Clan Name: Shakya
 Born: Lumbini
 Father: King Suddohana
 Wife: Yashodara
 Leaves palace: At 29
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