Buddhism Definitions

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Buddha
Title given to someone who has achieved enlightenment
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The Four Sights
Old Age, Illness, Death, Holy Man
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Jataka
Popular Stories about the lives of the Buddha
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Ascetic
Living a simple and strict lifestyle with few pleasures.
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Meditation
A practice of calming and focusing the mind.
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Enlightenment
The gaining of knowledge about God, self, or the nature of reality.
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Dhamma
The Buddha's teachings
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Pali
The language of early Buddhist scriptures
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Sanskrit
Language used in later Buddhist texts
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Dependent Arising
The idea that all things arise in dependence of certain conditions
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Nidanas
12 factors that illustrate birth, death and rebirth
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Samsara
The repeating cycle of life, death and rebirth
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Karma
A person's actions. Skillful actions result in happiness.
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Nirvana
A state of complete enlightenment, happiness and peace.
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Dukkha
The first noble truth: there is suffering.
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Anicca
Impermanence; the idea that everything changes
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Anatta
The idea that people do not have a permanent, fixed self or soul
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Five Aggregates
The five aspects that make up a person.
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Four Noble Truths
Four Truths the Buddha taught about Suffering.
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Samudaya
Second Noble Truth; there are causes of suffering.
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Nirodha
Third Noble Truth; suffering can be stopped.
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Magga
Fourth Noble Truth; the way to stop suffering.
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Tanha
Craving
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The Three Poisons
Greed, hatred and ignorance; the main causes of suffering
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Eightfold Path
Eight aspects that Buddhits practise and live by in order to gain enlightenment
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Threefold Way
Eightfold Path grouped into three sections of ethics, meditation and wisdom.
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Arhat
Theravada Buddhists term for someone who has become enlightened.
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Bodhisattva
Mahayana Buddhists term for someone who has become enlightened but chooses to remain in the cycle of samsara to help others achieve enlightenment.
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