First Test Flashcards
(45 cards)
Deviation
Practice of determining hidden significance or cause of event
future telling or supernatural
Totem
System of believes in humans are said to have kinship with spiritual beings
Monism
All reality is one unified a divine reality
Shamans
People who can transcend human limitations and communicate with varieties of spiritual beings
Native American land of dead
Spirit world
Souls
living through dreams
Upanishads
Collection of Hindu teaching about self and reality
Samsara
Rebirth cycle
Moksha
Liberation from bondage of karma
Laws of manu
Most authoritative of books
Dharma
Brahman
Ultimate reality in divine source and essence of universe
Tirahantaras
Ford builder
One who has total liberation and shows way across the ocean of suffering
Asceticism
Self discipline
Sanctity of life
The doctrine of life
2 traditions
eastern and western
all life is sacred with no distinction
Mohagana
Great vehicle
Badhisattua
One becoming Buddha
Theravada
Teaching of the elders
Tanha
Thirst
Desire
Arhat
Perfect being
Nirvana
Anatman
No self
Animism
Believe in spirits
Taboo
Full of secret power
Myth
Stories about sacred beings
Ancestor veneration
Practice based on belief that family has a continued existence
African religion God
Olomum
Sky god