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| Nobal ones invaded india between 2000-1500 bce. Forced Dravidians into southern Asia. Although the dravidians into southern asia. Although the Aryan class system (caste system) dominated all of india they never fully conquered the south. |
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| (H) experiential Sanatana Dharma |
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| aka Hinduism is the Dominate religion |
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| (H) experiential Trimurti |
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| Hindu Gods Creation (brahma), Maintenance (Vishnu) and destruction (shiva) – the great trinity. |
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| refers to creative aspect of the universal consciousness or GOD. |
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| the Destroyer" or "the Transformer"[3] among the Trimurti. regarded as the patron god of yoga and arts. known to have untamed passion, which leads him to extremes in behavior. the symbol of sensuality |
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| essence of all beings, the master of—and beyond—the past, present and future, the creator and destroyer of all existences, one who supports, preserves, sustains and governs the universe and originates and develops all elements within |
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| (H) experiential Kali(Durga)- |
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| the Hindu goddess associated with empowerment. Goddess of Time and Change, the Dark Mother is one such deity with whom devotees have a very loving and intimate bond, in spite of her fearful appearance. In this relationship, the worshipper becomes a child and Kali assumes the form of the ever-caring mother |
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| The 8th incarnation of lord visnu in hinduism |
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| (H) doctrinal Karma Marga |
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| the way to self-realization through selfless action |
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| (H) doctrinal Jnana Marga |
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| approach to salvation by way of knowledge |
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| (H) doctrinal Bhakti Marga- |
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| path of devotion to diety, love and faith. |
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| (H) doctrinal Stages of Life- |
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1st Ashrama - "Brahmacharya" or the Student Stage (education until 25)
2nd Ashrama - "Grihastha" or the Householder Stage (married resumes responsibility til 50)
3rd Ashrama - "Vanaprastha" or the Hermit Stage (goes into forest live in hut pray take wife but lil contact with family renounce retire from everything
4th Ashrama - "Sannyasa" or the Wandering Ascetic Stage (becomes virtually merged/ devoted to God no home, no attachments, no fears, hopes duties responsibility. ) |
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| emancipation, liberation or release |
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| incarnation", but more accurately as "appearance" or "manifestation |
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| the immortal essence or soul of a living organism (human, animal, fish or plant etc.) which survives physical death |
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| law explaining cause- and effect. Fully explains us as physical emotional and intellectual beings. Karma is separate from the spiritual nature of humans. The attachment caused by desire must be overcome if ultimate transformation is to occur. Desire holds karma chain together. We are spiritually ignorant we need to be enlightened to our true nature. Our ultimate goal is to break the karmic attachment and escape the cycle. Become enlightened to wake up to who we are spiritually. |
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| the repeating cycle of birth, life and death |
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| (H) doctrinal Reincarnation |
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| concept that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions |
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| - "to be able" meaning "Power" or "empowerment |
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| the illusion of a limited, purely physical and mental reality in which our everyday consciousness has become entangled, a veiling of the true Self. Maya is not real, since it disappears on the dawn of knowledge of the Supreme Self. |
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| cause no injury, do no harm… nonviolence, and it applies to all living beings including animals |
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| ignorance, delusion, unlearned, unwise and opposite of, Vidya (Knowledge) |
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| (H) practices Laws of Manu |
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| (H) practices Suttee(Sati)- |
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| the burning to death of a widow on her husband's funeral pyre |
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| prayer ritual performed by Hindus to host, honour and worship one or more deities, or to spiritually celebrate an event |
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| meaning, sense, goal, purpose or essence, |
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| universal human duty, duties, rights, laws, conduct, virtues and ‘‘right way of living |
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| (groups assigned by birth not personality). The Hindu conception of the social order is that people are different, and different people will fit well into different aspects of society |
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| 1 varnas. traditional hindu societies of india, Nepal and the far east. individual belonging to the hind priest, artist, teachers, technicians class and also individuala belonging to the Brahmin tribe caste into which the person was born |
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| 2 varnas. (those with governing functions),. Kshatriya constitute the ruling and military elite. Their role was to protect society by fighting in wartime and governing in peacetime |
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| 3 varnas. roles in agriculture and cattle-rearing but over time they came to be landowners, traders and money-lenders |
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| 4 varnas least important. perform functions of serving the other three varna |
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| former name for any member of a wide range of low-caste Hindu groups and any person outside the caste system |
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| are a large body of texts originating in ancient India. the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism |
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| (H) scriptures Upanishads |
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| collection of Vedic texts[1] which contain the earliest emergence of some of the central religious concepts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. The Upanishads are considered by Hindus to contain revealed truths (Sruti) concerning the nature of ultimate reality (brahman) and describing the character and form of human salvation (moksha) |
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| (H) scriptures Bhagavad Gita |
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| literally meaning The Song of the Bhagavan is a 700-verse scripture that is part of the Hindu epic Mahabharata. It is a sacred text of the Hindus |
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| (the chief hero of the Bhagavad-Gita.) the most important of the five princes in the Mahabharata. Krishna served as his charioteer in the battle with the Kaurava |
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| - A virtuous king named Rama is banished to the forest, where he has many adventures, then he rescues his wife Sita from the evil king of Sri Lanka with the help of his friends. |
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| one who is awake/ woken up to reality, Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal around 2,500 years ago. He did not claim to be a god or a prophet. He was a human being who became Enlightened, understanding life in the deepest way possible. |
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| the birth name of the founder of Buddhism |
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| at the age of twenty-nine, he left his kingdom and newborn son to lead an ascetic life and determine a way to relieve universal suffering. For six years, Siddhartha submitted himself to rigorous ascetic practices, studying and following different methods of meditation with various religious teachers. But he was never fully satisfied. One day, however, he was offered a bowl of rice from a young girl and he accepted it. |
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| specific observations made Buddha which led to a realization. an old man, a sick man, a corpse and an ascetic. |
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| religious site and place of pilgrimage where Gautama Buddha is said to have obtained Enlightenment |
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| (B)Eperiental Eightfold Path |
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| Right View, Right Intention, Right Action, Right Speech, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, Right Concentration |
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| (B) Experiental Four Noble Truths |
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the central doctrine of the Buddhist tradition
The truth of suffering (Dukkha)
The truth of the origin of suffering (Samudāya)
The truth of the cessation of suffering (Nirodha)
The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering (Magga) |
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| (B) Doctrinal "the middle way" |
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| he encouraged people to follow a path of balance rather than extremism |
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| translated as "suffering", "anxiety", "stress", or "unsatisfactoriness |
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| literally means "thirst," and is commonly translated as craving or desire |
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| literally means "action" or "doing". process of karmic action and result |
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| literally means "blowing out" or "extinguishing, Buddhist view, when these fires are extinguished, suffering (dukkha) comes to an end, and one is released from the cycle of rebirth (samsara). |
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The teaching of The Five Aggregates or The Five Skandhas, is an analysis of personal experiences and a view on cognition from a Buddhist perspective. They are called aggregates as they work together to produce a mental being. As Heart Sutra says, Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva illuminates and sees the emptiness of the Five Skandhas.
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| (B) Doctrinal Bodhisattva |
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| enlightenment (bodhi) being (sattva). anyone who directs their attention, their life, to practicing the way of life of a buddha is a bodhisattva |
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| (B) Doctrinal Anatman/anatta |
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| no self a human being, or any living being for that matter, does not have a permanent soul in his/herself and that our inner being is constantly changing, whether we notice or not. When the Buddha taught that our inner being is constantly evolving, he meant that because our everyday experiences in life are different, we are not bound to act the same all the time |
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| (B) Doctinal Impermanence(anicca) |
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| All compounded things are impermanent Compounded things are, of course, any thing that can't be divided into parts |
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| (B) Practices Ten Precepts |
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1. I undertake the precept to refrain from destroying living creatures.
(I shall not kill any beings)
2. I undertake the precept to refrain from taking that which is not given.
(I shall not steal)
3. I undertake the precept to refrain from sexual misconduct.
(If I am a monk or a nun, I will abstain from all sexual activities. If I am a layperson, I would only be with my spouse, restraining from all sexual thought, sexual speech, and sexual actions with whom who is not my spouse, or have sex in the inappropriate time )
4. I undertake the precept to refrain from faulty speech.
(I shall not lie, talk with double tongue, bear false witness against others, talk of others short-comings and faults, making jokes, or talk about irrelevant subjects that have no benefit for my quest to become enlightenment)
5. I undertake the precept to refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs which impairs the function of my body and mind.
(I shall not consume drug, alcohol, and other addictive materials)
6. I undertake the precept to refrain from eating at the inappropriate time.
(I shall not indulge myself with food and neglect my mind)
7. I undertake the precept to refrain from dancing, singing, music, going to see worldly acts.
(I understand that if I still love to indulge myself with such activities, then I will not be able to escape the cycle of life and death)
8. I undertake the precept to refrain from adorn my body with earthly possession.
(I will not indulge my senses and will not covers my temporary form with faulty material. Instead, I will adorn my Dharma body with Dharma merits from my Bodhi thoughts, deeds, and right meditations)
9. I undertake the precept to refrain from lying on a high or luxurious sleeping place.
(I will not rest while I haven’t reached the enlightenment stage. I will not rest while other sentient beings are still suffering in three miserable realms. I will not enter nirvana and forshaken sentient beings)
10. I undertake the precept to refrain from accepting gold and silver (money).
(I will refrain from accepting and possess any material and wealth since they belongs to sentient beings. I understand that if I do not conquer my greed, I shall not be able to escape the cycle of life and death. I will not dwell in heaven with my great merits while sentient beings are still suffering in other three miserable realms) |
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| (B) Practices The Three Refuges |
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are the three things that Buddhists take refuge in, and look toward for guidance
1 Buddha- can mean the historical Buddha (Siddharta) or the Buddha nature — the ideal or highest spiritual potential that exists within all beings
2 Dharma- The teachings of the Buddha, the path to Enlightenment.
3 Sangha- The community of those who have attained enlightenment, who may help a practicing Buddhist to do the same. Also used more broadly to refer to the community of practicing Buddhists, or the community of Buddhist monks and nuns |
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| oldest surviving branch of Buddhism. "the Teaching of the Elders |
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| association", "assembly," "company" or "community" and most commonly refers in Buddhism to the monastic community of ordained Buddhist monks or nuns |
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| an ordained male Buddhist monastic. female monastic is called a Bhikkhuni. Their lifestyle is shaped to support their spiritual practice, to live a simple and meditative life, and attain Nirvana |
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| - Great Vehicle, is the form of Buddhism prominent in North Asia, including China, Mongolia, Tibet, Korea, and Japan. Arising out of schisms—about both doctrine and monastic rules—within Indian Buddhism in the first century C.E., the Great Vehicle considers itself a more authentic version of the Buddha's teachings. |
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| (B) Scriptures Tripitaka- |
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| Tripitaka means "three baskets," from the way in which it was originally recorded: the text was written on long, narrow leaves, which were sewn at the edges then grouped into bunches and stored in baskets |
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| the teachings of the Buddha |
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