key terms :buddhism

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buddha

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founder of Buddhism
Means awakened one
Enlightened one

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theravada buddhism

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“the way of the elders” Buddhism in Southeast Asia aim is to become an arahant

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mahayana buddhism

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Broad School of leader Buddhist traditions

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pure land Buddhism

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a mahayana school believing in the amitabha buddha 

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sangha

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Buddhist community, but sometimes used to mean monks, nuns

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dhamma

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Buddhist teachings

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paticca samuppada

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principle of dependent origination

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the three marks of existence

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anicca-impermanence
anita-no fixed self
dukkha-suffering

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dukkha

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Suffering or dissatisfaction

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samudaya

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Causes of suffering

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tanha

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Craving, desire

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three poisons

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Greed, ignorance, hatred

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nirodha

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End of suffering and it causes

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nibbana

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Enlightenment – escape from Samsara by discovery of true knowledge

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The middle way

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Neither a path of denial or a path of luxury built a midway. Achieved by following the noble eight: the way to end suffering.

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samsara

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Cycle of birth, death and rebirth as shown in Buddhist wheel of life

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kamma

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Actions and the consequences of those actions that keep us in Samara

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sila

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ethics

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samadhi

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meditation

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panna

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wisdom

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khandas

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5 aggregates or elements that make a human being

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sunnata

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emptiness , includes the idea of no separate self

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tathagatagarbha

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Buddha nature, each of us poses the essence of the Buddha within us

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arahant

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enlighten being” one who is worthy”

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bodhisattva

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A person who is able to reach Nirvana but delays doing so through compassion for suffering beans and I desire to help free them from Samsara

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pancha sila

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Five precepts

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paramitas

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six perfections Wisdom/ethics/meditation/energy/patient/generosity

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merit

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The accumulation of positive karma through good days acts and thoughts

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rebirth

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actions of a person lead to a new existence of death in the cycle of samsara

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karuna

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compassion

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metta

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loving kindness