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buddhism
a religion founded
2500
years ago by
siddartha gautama
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Buddha
A title given to someone who has achieved
enlightenment
; usually used to refer to Siddhartha Gautama
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the four sights
Old age, illness, death and a holy man; these four sights led the
Buddha
to leave his life of
luxury
in the palace
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jataka
The
Jataka
tales are popular stories about the lives of the
Buddha
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ascetic
living a simple and strict lifestyle with few
pleasures
or possessions someone who follows
ascetic
practices
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meditiation
a practice of calming and focussing the mind and reflecting deeply on the specific
teachings
to penetrate their true
meaning
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enlightenment
the
gaining
of true knowledge about your self or the nature of reality usually through meditation and self discipline in buddhists Hindu and Sikh traditions gaining freedom from the cycle of
rebirth
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mara
A demon that represents
spiritual obstacles
, especially
temptation
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the three watches of the night
The three realisations that the
Buddha
made in order to achieve
enlightenment
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the
five ascetics
The
Buddha's
first five students; five monks who followed
ascetic
practices
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dharma
the teachings of the
Buddha
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pali
the
language
of the earlier
buddhist
scriptures
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sanskrit
The
language
used in later Indian
Buddhist
texts
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dependant arising
the ideas that all things arise in
dependence
upon
conditions
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the tibetan wheel
of
life
An image that symbolises
samsara
, often found in
Tibetan Buddhist monasteries
and temples
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Nidanas
12 factors that illustrate the process of
birth
,
death
and rebirth
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samsara
The repeating cycle of
birth
, life,
death
and rebirth
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kamma
A person's
actions
; the idea that skilful actions result in happiness and
unskilful
ones in suffering
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nibanna
a state of complete
enlightenment
happiness and
peace
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dukkha
the first
noble
truth there is
suffering
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anicca
impermanence the idea that
everything
changes
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anatta
the idea that people don't have a
permanent self
or
soul
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Five
Aggregates
the five
aspected
that
make up
a person
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the four noble truths
what the
buddha
taught about
suffering
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dukkha
The first
noble
truth; there is
suffering
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Samudaya
The
second noble truth
: there are causes of
suffering
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Nirodha
The
third
noble truth;
suffering
can be stopped
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magga
The fourth noble truth; the way to stop suffering; the
Eightfold Path
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Theravada
Buddhism
The school of the elders; an ancient Buddhist tradition found in
Southern Asia
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Mahayana
Buddhism
An umbrella term to describe some later Buddhist traditions, including
Pure Land
Buddhism,
Tibetan
Buddhism and Zen Buddhism
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tanha
craving
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the theee posions
greed
hatred and
ignorance
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nibbana
A state of complete
enlightenment
, happiness and
peace
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Eightfold
Path
eight aspects that Buddhists practise and live by in order to achieve
enlightenment
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the threefold way
The Eightfold Path grouped into the three sections of
ethics
,
meditation
and wisdom
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Ethics (
sila
)
A section of the threefold way that emphasises the importance of
skilful
action as the basis for
spiritual
progress
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meditation
samadhi
A section of the threefold way that emphasises the role of
meditation
in the process of
spiritual development
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Wisdom
(panna)
A section of the
threefold
way that deals with Buddhist approaches to understanding the nature of
reality
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sunyata
Emptiness; the concept that nothing has a separate independent
self
or
soul
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Buddha
Nature
The idea that everyone has the essence of a
Buddha
inside them
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