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Eight-fold Path

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Thought
Understanding
Speech
Action
Livelihood
Effort
Mindfulness
Concentration
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Three-fold Path

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Ethics
Meditation
Insight/wisdom

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Maitreya

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The coming Buddha

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When will the next Buddha come?

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When the Dharma is lost

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Anicca/anitya

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Impermanence

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Four noble truths

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Dukkha
Trishna
Cessation
Path

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Dukkha

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Unsatisfactoriness of samsaric existence
Suffering
“Understand me”

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Trishna

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Thirst/craving
Clinging to what we do have, yearning for what we don’t have
“Abandon/overcome me”

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Cessation

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Cessation of Dukkha

“Realize me”

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Path

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The Way-from here to there

“Develop/cultivate me”

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Nirvana/Moksha

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Liberation/enlightenment

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Samsara

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The cycle of suffering

Death and rebirth

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Brahmanas

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“Conservatives”
Hereditary priests
“Technicians of the sacred”

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Shramanas

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“Strivers”
“Radicals”
Rejection of Vedas and Brahmanic authority
Wanderers

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Dhammacakkappavattana Suttra

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Buddha’s first teaching

Setting of the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion

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Dhamma/Dharma

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The truth taught by the Buddha

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The Three Jewels

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The Buddha, the Dharma, the Sangha

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Buddha

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Awakened one

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Sangha

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The community

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Jataka

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Births

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Siddhartha Gautama

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The Buddha

Lived around the 5th century BCE (480-400 BCE)

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Seven ways Buddhists recalled the Buddha after his death

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The Dharma 
Pilgrimage 
Relics
Images
Masters of the Dharma
Arhats
Maitreya
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Four pilgrimage sites

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Birth (Lumbini)
Awakening (Bodhgaya)
1st sermon (Sarnath)
Death (Kusingara)

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Masters of the Dharma

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Lineage

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Ananda
Buddha's right-hand man
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Arhats
Guardians of Buddhism | 16, 18, or 500 in number
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Two dimensions of Buddhist Meditation
Samatha | Vipassana
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Samatha
"Calming" or "centering" Mindfulness of breathing Calming practices
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Vipassana
"Insight" Mindful awareness of impermanence Contemplation of the Buddha
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Four Brahma Viharas
Loving-kindness (metta) Compassion (karuna) Sympathetic joy (mudita) Equanimity (upekkha)
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Six elements
``` Earth Fire Water Air Space Consciousness ```
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Anatta/anatman
No-self | Non-substantiality of the self
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Five Precepts
Abstention from: 1. Taking life 2. Taking the not-given 3. Sexual misconduct 4. False speech 5. Intoxication
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The Wheel of Life
The "Three Poisons" Two orders of conditionality Six realms of existence Twelve-fold chain of cause and condition
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The "Three Poisons"
Greed (the rooster) Hatred (the snake) Delusion (the pig)
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Two orders of conditionality
Ascending and descending
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Six realms of existence
``` Gods Titans Humans Animals Hungry ghosts Denizens of hell realms ```
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Twelve-fold chain of cause and condition
``` Ignorance Predispositions Consciousness "Name-and-form" Six sensory faculties Contact Feeling Craving Grasping Becoming Rebirth Old age and death ```
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Buddha-anusmrti
Recollection of the Buddha
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Key characteristics of Mahayana
``` Expansiveness Universality Literature Cosmology Buddhology Soteriology Doctrines Methodology ```
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Cosmology
Universe is infinite Buddhas are everywhere The opportunity for buddhas is everywhere
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Mahayana
The "Greater Vehicle"
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Shunyata
Emptiness
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Three "own natures"
Interdependent Constructed Fulfilled (perfect, pure)
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Lumbini
The Buddha's birth-place
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Bodhgaya
Location of the Buddha's awakening
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Sarnath
Location of the Buddha's first sermon
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Kusingara
Where the Buddha died
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Arada Kalama and Rudraka Ramaputra
The Buddha's teachers
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Five Dhyana Factors
``` Initial thought Sustained thought Rapture Bliss One-pointedness ```
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Samskaras
Karma-formation | The tendency or disposition to act in that same way again
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Three marks of existence
Anicca (impermanence) Anatta (no-self) Dukkha (dissatisfactoriness)
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Vedas
Aryan hymns of praise to the gods
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Karma
A specific action
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Mara
Demon that tempted Buddha by trying to seduce him with three beautiful women "Causing death"
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Tanha
Craving
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Arati
Discontentment
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Raga
Attachment/passion/desire
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Jainism
Living a life of harmlessness and renunciation | Non-violence toward all living beings
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Angulimala
Serial killer who encounters the Buddha and becomes his student and an arhat
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Karma-vipaka
Result or fruition
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Soteriology
Theory of liberation/salvation | Conception of the goal (nirvana)
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Avalokitesvara
Embodiment of compassion | Bodhisattva who has vowed to postpone his own buddhahood until he has assisted every sentient being in achieving nirvana
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Prajna-paramita
The perfection of wisdom
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Bodhicitta
"Heart-mind of awakening" | Wish to attain enlightenment motivated by compassion for others
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Bodhisattva
A buddha/the Buddha's past lives Someone on the path to nirvana Someone who has compassion for all sentient beings
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Yogacara
Final, definitive understanding
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Tathagata-garbha
A buddha within | The in-dwelling buddha
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Eight types of consciousness
Sense-consciousnesses: 1. Eye 2. Ear 3. Nose 4. Tongue 5. Body Mind-consciousnesses: 6. Mind (perception) 7. Manas (self-consciousness) 8. Storehouse consciousness (karmic seeds)

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