Buddhist Ethics

2. - Bad, unethical actions or behaviour.
6. - The four qualities of love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity which the Buddha taught that Buddhists should develop.
14. - The idea that everyone had the essence of a Buddha inside them.
15. - For Theravada Buddhists someone who has become enlightened.
17. - Compassion; feeling concerned for the suffering of other people and wanting to relive their suffering.
18. - For Mahayana Buddhists, someone who has become enlightened but chooses to remain in the cycle of samsara to help others achieve enlightenment as well.
20. - A place where Buddhists come together to practice.

1. - When someone achieves enlightenment and becomes a Budhha.
3. - Good, ethical actions or behaviour.
4. - Loving-kindness; showing a benevolent, kind, friendly attitude towards other people.
5. - Prayer beads that are used to count the number of recitations in a mantra.
7. - "Help", "Friend"
8. - The paradise where Amitabha Buddha lives, and where PureLandBuddhists aim to be reborn.
9. - A Mahayana form of of Buddhism based on belie in Amitabha Buddha.
10. - Oldest branch of Buddhism, "the School of the Elders". - Ancient Buddhist tradition found in southern Asia.
11. - An act of worship.
12. - A person's actions; the idea that skilful actions result in happiness and unskilful ones result in suffering.
13. Buddhism - An umbrella term used to describe some later Buddhist traditions including Pure Land Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism.
16. - A short sequence of sacred syllables.
19. five agregates - The five aspects that make up a person.