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One of the Three Jewels, is the sum total of Buddhist teachings about how to view the world and how to live properly. |
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Another one of the Three Jewels, is the community of monks and nuns. |
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, the Buddha of the Western Paradise by his merit allows people to be reborn in the Pure Land; a bliss-body Buddha in Mahayana. |
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In Mahayana, someone of deep compassion who vows to not enter nirvana for the purpose of helping others is called a . |
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is the Buddhist term meaning suffering, sorrow, or misery. |
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In Zen Buddhism, a is a question that cannot be answered logically and is used to bring awakening. |
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Achieving , one gains inner peace and release from suffering and rebirth. |
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A text, especially one said to be the words of the Buddha, is called a . |
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The word for constant rebirth and its accompanying suffering is . |
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The virtue or quality of compassion or empathy is . |
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In Zen, is the enlightened awareness. |
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‘No self’; is the doctrine that there is no soul or permanent essence in people and things. |
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‘Meditation’; focusing of the mind; is also, sometimes, stages of trance. |
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A state of deep awareness, is the result of intensive meditation. |
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Constant rebirth and the attendant suffering, is the everyday world of change. |
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The term means impermanence, constant change. |
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In Theravada, a(n) has practiced monastic disciplines and reached nirvana, the ideal. |
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The three ‘baskets,' or collections, of Buddhist texts is known as the . |
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A shrine, usually in the shape of a dome, a(n) is used to mark Buddhist relics of sacred sites. |
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The three ‘bodies’ of the Buddha, the is the cosmic Buddha nature, the celestial Buddhas, and the historical Buddhas. |
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The term means enlightenment. |
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A Buddha (or bodhisattva), is expected to appear on earth in the future. |
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is a popular bodhisattva of compassion in Mahayana. |
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The Mahayana notion of emptiness, means that the universe is empty of permanent reality. |
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‘Thatness,’ or ‘thusness,’ ‘suchness’; is the uniqueness of each changing moment. |
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The is a circular design containing deities, geometrical forms, symbols and so on that represent totality, the self, or the universe. |
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A is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, often a monk. |
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The ‘diamond’ scepter used in Tibetan and other types of Buddhist ritual, the symbolizes compassion. |
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A is a symbolic hand gesture. |
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