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| The principal of being nonviolent toward all living things |
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| Indo-Europeans who invaded N. India in the 2nd millennium BC, displacing the Dravidian and other aboriginal peoples. |
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| The spiritual Life in the principal of the universe. It is regarded as inherent in the real self of the the individual. A person's soul. |
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| A holy city for hindus on the on the Ganges R. |
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| Believing in one supreme god, but also believing in others. |
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| the tree that buddha went under and experienced nirvana |
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| A person who can reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings. |
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| The creator god in Hinduism. Heforms a triad with Vishnu and Shiva |
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| A lengthy commentary on the Vedas |
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| A title given to the founder of BUddhism. Siddhartha Gautama |
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| A widespread religion. No creator god and is central belief is the doctrine Karma |
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| The sum of a persons actions in previous states of existence. Is viewed as deciding their fate i future instances. |
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Each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society.
Brahman, priest
Kshatriya, Warrior
Vaishya, merchant/farmer
Sudra, slave |
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| Indian Emperor, founded the mauryan empire |
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| The principle of cosmic order. |
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| The path to nirvana. right views, intentions, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, concentration. |
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| a king (maybe). was a king who went to India. (ASK) |
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| The buddha holds a flower to many BUddhists and only one smiles and gets it. |
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The four central beliefs that containt the essence of Buddhist teaching:
There is suffering
Suffering has an origin
Suffering can cease
There is a path out of suffering. |
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The First Ashrama - "Brahmacharya" or the Student Stage
The Second Ashrama - "Grihastha" or the Householder Stage
The Third Ashrama - "Vanaprastha" or the Hermit Stage
The Fourth Ashrama - "Sannyasa" or the Wandering Ascetic Stage |
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The First Ashrama - "Brahmacharya" or the Student Stage
The Second Ashrama - "Grihastha" or the Householder Stage
The Third Ashrama - "Vanaprastha" or the Hermit Stage
The Fourth Ashrama - "Sannyasa" or the Wandering Ascetic Stage |
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| I twas established in 320 AC by Chandragupta I it began to disintegrate toward the end of the 5 century |
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| A belief in India, a religion. |
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| Chinese tribe close to Himalayas |
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| A people who came from the greater art of Europe/Asia into India. |
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| People who came from greece |
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| A religion by Muslims. Is monotheistic |
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| A religion where everyone suffers all throughout life. Also, no injury to anything, everything in life causes karma, even walking so must make good karma throughout entire life to make up for that. |
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| 1. (Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter) |
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| A great teacher who has attained liberation from karma. |
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| Wrote a famous Indian poem. |
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| a part of India like an area. |
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| compassion and Siddhartha's wife in the book. |
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| a book in the arthasastra |
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| One of the most popular gods, the eighth incarnation of the god Vishnu. |
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| A member of the Iranian dynasty that invaded the Indian subcontinent and established a powerful empire in the nw between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD |
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| One of the two great sanskrit epics. |
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| The supernatural powers wielded by gods and demons to produce illusions. |
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| A greek traveller who went to India |
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| An empire in India. took up almost all of India. |
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| People in hte Moghul empire. |
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| People in hte Moghul empire. |
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| Release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma |
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| Big water sheds, it is a flood. |
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| There was a woe whose son died and then was told to go and get a mustard seed from a family where nobody had died. she could not find it. therefore, everyone suffers. |
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| a transcendent state where your not suffering or desiring. |
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| the oldest principal of the vedas. a collection of 1028 hymns. |
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| a state of intense concentration received through meditation |
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| the cycle of death and rebirth. |
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| a term for ocean. ????????? |
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| followers of the greeks. next dynasty. |
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| extensive trade routes through china. |
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| a god associated with the powers of reproduction |
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| the person who became like a buddha in the story we read over break. |
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| a dome shaped structure, a buddhist shrine. |
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| a servant, the lowest caste |
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| the SE side of India. a region. |
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| the dravidian language of the people living in India |
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1) Brahmins,
2) Kshatriyas,
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| belonging in the caste below the lowest caste. |
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| the language of the muslims. |
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| one of the four social orders of Hinduism. |
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| the most ancient hindu scriptures. |
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| One of the eight incarnations of the Hindu god. |
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| a hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breathing control and meditation. |
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| the path that siddhartha gautama used to enter nirvana |
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| a story about krishna and ppl. a myth. |
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| a huge Indian Emperor, was in charge of much of the land in India. |
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| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, etc. |
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| the christian guy who went to india and made christianity a part of indian culture. |
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