Worship/ Puja

• Temple;

  • A place where Buddhists will come together and practice
• Gompa;

  • A hall of building where Buddhists can go and meditate
• Stupa;

  • A small building in a monastery that sometimes contains holy relics
• Shrine;

  • An area where a statue of a Buddha or Boddhisatva, which becomes a focal point for Buddhist's meditation and devotion.
• Buddha rupa;

  • A statue of the Buddha, often sitting cross-legged in mediation
• Monastery;

  • A place where Buddhist monks and nuns live
• Chanting;

  • Reciting from Buddhist scriptures
• Mantra;

  • A short sequence of sacred syllables
• Mala;

  • Prayer beads that are used to count the number of recitations in a mantra.
• Offerings;

  • Placing flowers and incense on the shrine
• Sacred texts;

  • A text containing the Buddha's teachings
• Bowing;

  • Bending the body three times in front of the shrine to recall the three refuges.
• Meditation;

  • The practice of calming and focusing the mind and reflecting deeply on specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning.
• For Theravada Buddhists it is customary to recite the five moral precepts (To abstain from taking life, To abstain from taking what is not freely given, to abstain from misuse of senses or sexual misconduct. To abstain from wrong speech, to abstain from intoxicants that cloud the mind.)
• Samatha mediation;

  • Theravada Buddhism, walking and breathing
  • develops attention skills
  • Kasinas
• Kasinas;

  • Basic visual objects of meditation
• Vipassana meditation;

  • 'insight meditation', a type that involves developing a better understanding of reality
  • Theravada Buddhism
  • Reflecting on three marks of existence
• Zazen meditation;

  • Zen Buddhism that requires awareness of the present moment.
  • Seated meditation
  • Zen Buddhism
  • Focusing on breathing
• Walking meditation;

  • Bare feet- connecting self to earth
  • Focuses on mind and body
• Visualisation meditation;

  • Tibetan Buddhists and Mahayana traditions
  • Will try to visualise details of an object in their mind
  • Deity visualisation, focuses on qualities and may imagine themselves as particular deities.