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| peaceful, utopia; Theravada Buddhism |
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| "you can't care about things you can't control"; Stoicism |
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| Protestant reformer, no way to "earn" one's way to Heaven |
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| (devotion) the path to god or liveration in Hinduism that stesses love and devotion to a deity rather than study or meditation |
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| Japan; Mahayana (the greater vehicle) Amitabha (Amida): the Buddha of infinite light |
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| (aka The Buddha) earn and transfer merit to others |
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| Pure Land in medieval Japan; became the most poplular and influential school |
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| disciple of Honen; came to believe that recitation of the Nembutsu was itself an act of merit and therefore self-assertion |
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| Spanish nun; experience ectasy |
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| Orthodox Hinduism text; duties of the four castes or classes and the duties of the four stages of life |
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| priests, warriors, famers/producers and laborers |
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| law, morality and religion; Islam |
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| The Five pillars of the Faith |
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| Muslim's obligations; Confession, Prayer, almsgiving, fasting, pilgrimage |
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| the traditional path of life, or "way" prescribed for the religious Jew; tradition of legal decisions and prescriptive rules |
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| the moral, sincere, religious (pious) response to God's command |
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| "day of atonement" the holiest day of the year for Jews in which they confess their faults and ask for forgiveness of God and their fellows |
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| traditional spring festival celebrating new life; also a festival of freedom commemorating the Exodus of Israel from bondage in Egypt |
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| family service at table on the eve of the holiday |
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| rite of passage at the advent of puberty; bar meaning son and mitzvah meaning God's commandment; a sign of allegiance to the Torah |
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| meaning "to yoke or join" the physical and mental discipline conjoined with certain philosophical principles that constitues on of the six orthodox philosophies of India |
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| constitues two eteranal substances: indestructible matter and souls |
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| came up with Samkhya philosphy |
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| means union, absorption, a full comprehension of being |
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| liberation from suffering |
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| fourth Noble Truth preached by the Buddha was the way leading to cessation of suffering |
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| psychologist ("peak experiences") humanistic psychology movement learder; psychic wholeness |
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| means no place; refers to something or place that is perfect |
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| supernaturalism; expereince w/ the Ultimate |
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| enlightenment or acquireing a new point of view |
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| has to do with the end, or goal (the telos), of personal life or history and not simply with its temporal conclusion |
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| meaning "to uncover or reveal" |
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| the lower world; a rather joyless underworld where the sade lived a half conscious, twilight existence |
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| The Western Paradise of the Buddha Amitabha |
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| paradise or Pulre Land where the faithful are born |
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| the goal of is release from the illusion of a self or "I" and union with the Infinite without individual consiousness |
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| menas "to put together," "to unite," or "to compose." |
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