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    • Buddhism
      a religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama 2500 years ago
    • Buddha
      a title given to someone who has achieved enlightenment; usually used to refer to Siddhartha Gautama
    • The four sights

      old age, illness, four sights, and a holy man; these led the Buddha to leave his life of luxury in the palace
    • Jataka
      the Jataka tales are popular stories about the lives of the Buddha
    • ascetic
      living a simple and strict lifestyle with few pleasures or possessions; someone who follows ascetic practices
    • meditation
      a practice of calming and focusing the mind, and reflecting deeply on specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning
    • Enlightenment
      the gaining the true knowledge of God, self, or the nature of reality. In buddhism, you are freed from the cycle of samsara and gain nibbana.
    • Mara
      a demon that represents spiritual obstacles, especially temptation
    • the three watches of the night
      the three realisations the Buddha made in order to achieve enlightenment
    • the five ascetics
      the Buddha's first five students; five monks who followed ascetic practices
    • Dharma
      the Buddha's teachings
    • dependent arising
      the idea that all things arise in dependence upon conditions
    • The Tibetan wheel of life
      an image that symbolises samsara
    • nidanas
      12 factors that illustrate the process of birth, death, and rebirth
    • samsara
      the repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth
    • kamma (karma)
      a person's actions; the idea that skillful actions result in happiness and unskillful ones in suffering
    • nibbana (nirvana)

      a state of complete enlightenment, happiness and peace
    • Dukkha
      the first noble truth; there is suffering
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