Gautama’s four encounters with illness, old age, death and a holy man.
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What does Ascetic mean
A life free from worldly pleasures (especially sexual activity and consumption of alcohol), often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals
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What does Enlightenment mean
Wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception; this allows a Buddhist to be freed from the cycle of rebirth.
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What does Dukkha mean
Suffering; ill; everything leads to suffering; unsatisfactoriness
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What does Anicca mean
Impermanence, instability, not permanent
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What does Paticca samuppada mean
The concept of dependent arising. The belief that everything in existence is because other things are. The idea that everything is interconnected and that everyone affects everyone else
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What is the First Noble Truth
Dukkha: everything is suffering
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What is the Second Noble Truth
Tanah: suffering is caused by cravin
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What is the Third Noble Truth
Nirodh: to stop suffering, stop craving
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What is the Fourth Noble Truth
Magga: follow the Noble Eightfold Path
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What are the Three poisons
greed, hatred, ignorance
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What does Nibbana mean
Literally ‘blowing’ out. To reach a state of perfect peace where the individual experiences liberation from the cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
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What is the Noble Eightfold Path
The fourth Noble Truth. Magga. The Middle Way. The way to wisdom; mental training and the way of morality. Eight stages to be practised simultaneously.
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What are the Five aggregates
The five skandhas of form, sensation, perception, mental formation, consciousness. The idea that one’s being is composed of these five factors
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What does Sunyata mean
Literally ‘emptiness’. In Mahayana Buddhism, it refers to the absence of an intrinsic nature (or identity) in all phenomena
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What does Buddha-nature mean
In Mahayana Buddhism this refers to the fundamental nature of all beings, which means that all beings can attain Buddhahood.
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What does Buddhahood mean
Enlightenment.
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What does Arhat mean
perfected person. In Theravada Buddhism this is a term for a person who has attained nibbana
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What does Bodhisattva mean
A concept in Mahayana Buddhism. A being destined for enlightenment, who postpones final attainment of Buddhahood in order to help living beings
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