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| Where are the Aryans from? |
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| Asia Minor (Turkey and Greece) |
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| What religion is the Aryan religion similar to? |
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| Similar to the Greek and Roman gods |
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| What is the ancient language of India |
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| Ancient scripture from the Vedic Age of India, beginning of Hinduism 1500 BCE to 500 BCE |
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| How did the Aryans get into India |
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| Vedic God "Shining Father", Roman god Jupiter or Greek god Zeus Pater (relation) |
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| Vedic God of Storm and War |
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| Vedic God of Dawn and Renewal, Female |
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| Vedic Wind and Stom Gods (father and son) |
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| Vedic God of Sky and Justice |
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| Vedic God of Cosmic Order |
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| Vedic God of altered states and expanded consciousness through a psychedelic mushroom drink (immortality) |
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| Fire alter sacrifices and priestly chants memorized and passed down |
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| Rig Veda (hymns) Yajur Veda (ceremony) Sama Veda (chants) Atharva Veda (knowledge from the teacher (Atharva)) |
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| Population of Hindus (modern day) |
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| How do you become a Hindu? |
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| Original inhabitants of India Cities: Mohanjo-Daro and Harappa |
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| immortality drink (amarat) |
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| Celestial, Atmospheric, and Terrestrial |
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| 500 BCE "sit under a tree with guru" 128 books and chapters by different people and different times that emphasize meditations, fasting, silence, and avoidance of sex |
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| Brahmins, Chatitryas, Vaishyas, Shudras |
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| "arms" rulers and kinds, soldier class |
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| "thighs" traders, farmers, and servers |
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| "feet" manual laborers (parayas: untouchables) (Chandlas: illegit children) |
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| Infinite, eternal, unchanging, pure (main god from which all others are incarnate of) |
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| Self, soul, conciousness, eternal, unchanging, unborn, undying |
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| highest goal for Hindus, Atman becomes one with Brahman and released from the cycle of life and death |
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| Being born over and over until Moksha |
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| Illusion, referring to the empirical world of sense perception and though |
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| physical and moral order created by Brahman |
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| doing good deeds according to Dharma |
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| doing good deeds without expecting rewards |
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| Knowing Brahman as different from Maya |
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| concentration only on Brahman, becoming indifferent to anything |
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| student life, household life, forest life, and sayasin |
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| age 7, leave home and study |
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| age 14 to 40, marriage, family, living |
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| age 40+, devoted to Brahmin, live in forest |
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| complete devotion, freed from worldly possessions, freed from social responsibility |
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| Most sacred book, 18 chapters of Mahabhrata "songs of god". Explains all gods are incarnations of Brahman |
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| Arjuna and Krishna (incarnation of Vishnu) main characters. Arjuna is a prince and is in conflict and Krishna advises him to fight his friends. |
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| Pujas (worship), offerings, Japa, and Tapa |
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| brahman, vishnu, and shiva |
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| Born into 2nd caste (soldier) |
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| Buddha's beliefs about Hinduism |
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| Believed Hinduism had too many gods, was too ritualistic, too much focus on castes, and had too much emphasis on sacrifice |
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| Similarities between Buddhism and Hinduism |
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| Karma, Reincarnation, Ahinsa, Nirvana(moksha) |
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| Differences between Hinduism and Buddhism |
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| No gods in Buddhism, No castes in Buddhism, and Anatta (similar to Atman) is changing unlike Atman |
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| Siddhartha (overcome birth and death) Guatama (good soul) Buddha (awake and found wisdom) |
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| age 19, married. age 25 leaves home to meditate and fast and austerity. age 35 while sitting under a Banyan tree, he achieves wisdom |
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| life/existence is suffering (dukkha), suffering is caused by desire (tishna), Desire must be overcome, desire is overcome by joining monastic life (sanga) |
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| 3 jewels, I take refuge in Buddha, refuge in Dharma, refuge in Sanga |
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| Eightfold Path (middle path) |
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| right understanding, right intention, right speech, right action, right work, right effort, right meditation, right contemplation |
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| Buddhist sacred text (baskets) written 300 years after the death of buddha |
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| would not allow them into Sanga |
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| rules and regulations of monastic life |
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| Metaphysical and philosophical doctrines |
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| clean shaven, one cloth (orange and white), barefoot |
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| Hinayana or Theravada Sect |
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| Nirvana achieved by joining Sanga, Buddha was a human, become Arhat (perfect), Satta |
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| help others who are in Sanga is sharing compassion for others (karma), Buddha is divine being, divine nature (trikaya everything has divine cosmic buddha), goal is to become a boddhisatva |
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| helper who follows the footsteps of Buddha, refuses to enter Nirvana |
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| employs esoteric practices such as chants and rituals to gain super natural powers, lamas (teachers) |
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| Mahayana school of thought, tea ceremonies, haiku poems, flower arrangements |
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| change "everything is in flux" (Anata), Soul will change, our existence is dis-eased and discontent |
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| achieved by 5 skhandalas (desires) |
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| over come sense perception, thought, consciousness, desire, greed |
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