Buddhist Beliefs & Teachings (Key Terms)

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Across
  1. 3. A title given to someone who has achieved enlightenment (usually referring to Siddhartha Gautama)
  2. 6. The fourth noble truth: the way to stop suffering (the Eightfold Path)
  3. 7. The second mark of existence: impermanence; the idea that everything changes
  4. 10. A demon that represents spiritual obstacles, especially temptation
  5. 11. The third noble truth: suffering can be stopped
  6. 13. The first mark of existence and noble truth: there is suffering
  7. 14. An umbrella term to describe some later Buddhist traditions (including Pure Land, Tibetan and Zen Buddhism)
  8. 16. A practice of calming and focusing the mind, and reflecting deeply on specific teachings to penetrate their true meaning
  9. 17. The repeating cycle of birth, death and rebirth
Down
  1. 1. Popular stories/tales about the lives of the Buddha
  2. 2. The gaining of true knowledge about God, self or the nature of reality, usually through meditation and self-discipline
  3. 4. The Buddha’s teachings
  4. 5. The second noble truth: there are causes of suffering
  5. 8. The third mark of existence: the idea that people don’t have a permanent, fixed self/soul
  6. 9. A religion founded around 2500 years ago by Siddhartha Gautama
  7. 12. ‘The school of the elders’; an ancient Buddhist tradition found in Southern Asia
  8. 15. 12 factors that illustrate the processes of birth, death and rebirth
  9. 18. Living a simple and strict lifestyle with few possessions