buddhist beliefs

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    • buddhism
      a religion founded 2500 years ago by siddartha gautama
    • Buddha
      A title given to someone who has achieved enlightenment; usually used to refer to Siddhartha Gautama
    • 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
    • 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
    • meditiation
      a practice of calming and focussing the mind and reflecting deeply on the specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning
    • 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
    • mara
      A demon that represents spiritual obstacles, especially temptation
    • the three watches of the night
      The three realisations that 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 teachings of the Buddha
    • pali
      the language of the earlier buddhist scriptures
    • sanskrit
      The language used in later Indian Buddhist texts
    • dependant arising
      the ideas that all things arise in dependence upon conditions
    • the tibetan wheel of life
      An image that symbolises samsara, often found in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and temples
    • Nidanas
      12 factors that illustrate the process of birth, death and rebirth
    • samsara
      The repeating cycle of birth, life, death and rebirth
    • kamma
      A person's actions; the idea that skilful actions result in happiness and unskilful ones in suffering
    • nibanna
      a state of complete enlightenment happiness and peace
    • dukkha
      the first noble truth there is suffering
    • anicca
      impermanence the idea that everything changes
    • anatta
      the idea that people don't have a permanent self or soul
    • Five Aggregates
      the five aspected that make up a person
    • the four noble truths
      what the buddha taught about suffering
    • dukkha
      The first noble truth; there is suffering
    • Samudaya
      The second noble truth: there are causes of suffering
    • Nirodha
      The third noble truth; suffering can be stopped
    • magga
      The fourth noble truth; the way to stop suffering; the Eightfold Path
    • Theravada Buddhism

      The school of the elders; an ancient Buddhist tradition found in Southern Asia
    • Mahayana Buddhism

      An umbrella term to describe some later Buddhist traditions, including Pure Land Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism
    • tanha
      craving
    • the theee posions
      greed hatred and ignorance
    • nibbana
      A state of complete enlightenment, happiness and peace
    • Eightfold Path

      eight aspects that Buddhists practise and live by in order to achieve enlightenment
    • the threefold way
      The Eightfold Path grouped into the three sections of ethics, meditation and wisdom
    • Ethics (sila)

      A section of the threefold way that emphasises the importance of skilful action as the basis for spiritual progress
    • meditation samadhi

      A section of the threefold way that emphasises the role of meditation in the process of spiritual development
    • Wisdom (panna)

      A section of the threefold way that deals with Buddhist approaches to understanding the nature of reality
    • sunyata
      Emptiness; the concept that nothing has a separate independent self or soul
    • Buddha Nature

      The idea that everyone has the essence of a Buddha inside them
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