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| the aryans who invaded india brought with them a(n) _____ religion |
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| horse sacrifice limited to (because of elaborateness & expense) |
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| most hymns written to in the vedas; personification of chaos |
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| teach all beings are expressions of brahman & people's problem is ignorance |
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| release from cycle of death and rebirth; goal of most indian religions |
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| epic poem about a great battle |
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| developer of the advaita vedanta system & prime opponent of indian buddhism |
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| roots in vedic literature, developed into its modern form in the 7th century ce. and outlawed by india's constitution in 1948 |
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| Religion where prayer and worship of the gods is worthless and irrelevant |
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| Tirthankaras (crossing builders) |
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| mahavira and other figures associated with the est of jainism |
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| jeremiah, confucius, and siddhartha gautama |
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| religious figures who were contemporaries of mahavira |
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| doctrine of ahimsa; are vegetarians |
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| conservative in its interpretation of the agamas |
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| siddhartha gautama was protected from sights of human misery and ugliness when he was young by... |
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| believe that when the dalai lama dies, he is reborn as a child |
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| having the self extinguished like a candle |
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| adherents of ________ use riddles in meditation and value simplicity |
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| focuses on the problem of suffering |
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| unique teaching of buddha that humans do not have... |
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| right speech, right concentration, and right effort |
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| in its early years spread from india to china |
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| based on the religious vision of _____, sikhs believe that "there is no muslim and there is no hindu" |
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| reject doctrine of ahimsa; free to eat meat |
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| sikhs believe that ____ was reincarnated in the gurus who succeeded him |
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| expected to abstain from alcohol |
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