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What is Amitabha Buddha?

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The Buddha worshipped by Pure Land Buddhists

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What is Anatta?

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no-self/no permanent identity

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What is Anicca?

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impermanence

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What is Arhat?

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One who has become enlightened; the ideal type for Theravada Buddhism

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What is ascetic?

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someone who gives up worldly pleasures to pursue a religion

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What is a Bodhisattva?

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a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.

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What is a Buddha?

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enlightened one

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What is a Buddha rupa?

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A statue of the Buddha, often sitting cross-legged in a meditation pose

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What is Buddhahood?

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When someone achieves enlightenment and becomes a Buddha

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What is chanting?

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Reciting from the Buddhist scriptures

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What is dependent arising?

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The idea that all things arise in dependence upon conditions

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What is Dhamma (Dharma)?

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Buddha’s teachings

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What is Dukkha?

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Suffering

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What is Engaged Buddhism?

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Buddhist movement that intertwines traditional mindfulness practice with active civil disobedience

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What is ethics (sila)?

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

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What is a festival?

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A day or period of celebration for religious reasons

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What is a Gompa?

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A hall or building where Tibetan Buddhists meditate

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What is greed?

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Selfish desire for something

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What is Jataka?

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The Jataka tales are popular stories about the lives of the Buddha

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what is kamma/karma?

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A persons actions, good (skilful) actions result in happiness and unskillful ones result in suffering

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What is karuna?

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compassion

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What is Magga?

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The path to end suffering

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What is Mahayana Buddhism?

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Newer form of Buddhism, more varied, incorporates ideas from other religions, others support is necessary to reach Nirvana; Spread to Japan, China, Tibet, and Korea

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What is Mala?

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Prayer beads that are used to count the number of recitations in a mantra

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What is mandala?
An intricate, colourful, sacred circle-shaped pattern
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What is mantra?
A short sequence of sacred syllables
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What is Mara?
A demon that represents spiritual obstacles, especially temptation
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What is mediation?
A practice of calming and focusing the mind and reflect deeply on specific teaching to penetrate their true meaning
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What is mediation (samadhi)?
A section of threefold way that emphasises the role of mediation in the process of spiritual development
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What is metta?
loving kindness
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What is mindfulness of breathing?
A meditation practice focusing on the experience of breathing
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What is a monastery (vihara)?
A place where Buddhist monks and nuns live
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What is Nibbana (Nirvana)?
A state of complete enlightenment, happiness and peace
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What is Nidanas?
12 factors that is illustrate the process of birth, death and rebirth
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What is Nirodha?
The truth of the end of suffering
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What is pali?
The language of the earliest Buddhist scriptures
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What is parinirvana day?
a Mahayana festival that commemorates the Buddha's passing away
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What is puja?
the act of worship
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What is Pure Land Buddhism?
A Mahayana form of Buddhism based on belief in Amitabha Buddha
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What is retreat?
a period of time spent away from everyday life in order to focus on meditation practice
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What is Samatha meditation?
a type of meditation that involves calming the mind and developing a deeper concentration
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What is samsara?
the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth
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What is Samudaya?
The truth of the cause of suffering
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What is sanskrit?
The language used in later Indian Buddhist texts
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What is a shrine?
An area with a statue of a Buddha or Bodhisattva, which provides Buddhists with a focal point for meditation and devotion
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What is stupa?
A small building in a monastery that sometimes contains holy relics
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What is Sukhavati?
The paradise where Amitabha Buddha lives, and where Pure Land Buddhists aim to be reborn
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What is Sunyata?
emptiness
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What is Tanha?
Selfish desire, cravings
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What is temple?
A place where Buddhists come together to practice
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What is a thangka?
A detailed painting of a Buddha or Bodhisattva
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What is the eightfold path?
eight aspects that Buddhists practise and live by in order to achieve enlightenment
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What are the "five aggregates"?
The five aspects that make up a person
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What are the five ascetics?
The Buddhas first five students; five monks who followed ascetic practices
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What are five moral precepts?
The five basic rules that Buddhists always try to follow to live ethically and morally
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What is the Four Noble Truths?
These truths offer Buddhists a way to understand and overcome suffering.
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What are the four sights?
Old age, illness, death and a holy man
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What are the four sublime states?
The four qualities of love, compassion, sympathetic, joy and equanimity which the Buddha taught that Buddhists should develop
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What are the six perfections?
The six qualities or virtues that Mahayana Buddhist try to develop in order to live as Bodhisattva
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What are the three poisons?
greed, hatred, ignorance - main cause of suffering
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What are the three watches of the night?
The three realisations that the Buddha made in order to achieve enlightenment
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What is the threefold way?
The Eightfold Path grouped into the three sections of ethics, meditation and wisdom
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What is the Tibetan Wheel of Life?
An image that symbolises samsara, often found in Tibetan Buddhist monasteries and temples
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What is Theravada Buddhism?
school of elders - an ancient Buddhist tradition found in Southern Asia
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What is unskillful?
Bad, ethical actions or behaviour
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What is Vipassana meditation?
A type of meditation that involves developing understanding of the nature of reality.
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What is visualisation?
Imagining or 'seeing' an object in one's mind
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What is Wesak?
A Theravada festival that celebrates the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and passing away
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What is Wisdom (panna)?
A section of the threefold that deals with Buddhist approaches to understanding the nature of reality
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What is zazen meditation?
A type of meditation in Zen Buddhism that involves awareness of the present moment.

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