Hinduism and Buddhism- Kenya Owens

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  1. 4. the four religious books of sacred knowledge and priestly rituals of the Brahmans composed in the first millennium B.C.E
  2. 6. the four foundations of mindfulness: contemplation of body, feeling, mind and mind-objects; the Buddha’s quintessential teachings on mindfulness
  3. 9. serpent
  4. 10. law; religious or moral duty
  5. 13. the auspicious power of wholesome action that brings positive karmic results
  6. 14. worshiper of Shiva; having to do with the worship of Shiva
  7. 15. the physical and mental energy needed for diligent mindfulness practice; the strong, courageous heart of energy
  8. 17. concentration; a deep state of meditation; one of the five spiritual faculties; one of the seven factors of enlightenment; an aspect of the Noble Eightfold Path
  9. 18. The pattern of conditioned habits that we mistake for a sense of self
  10. 19. action, deed; the law of cause and effect; intentional action, either wholesome or unwholesome that brings either pleasant or unpleasant results respectively
  11. 20. "womb chamber" the inner chamber, shrine of the Hindu temple
  12. 24. the doctrine that all mental and physical phenomena arise and pass away depending on causes and conditions
  13. 25. dome-like cap to the pyramidal tower of a South Indian Hindu temple or the entire tower of a North Indian temple
  14. 27. "to be made of flesh", that is, to be born into the world
  15. 28. the community of practitioners of the Buddhist path, or those beings who have attained direct realization of the nature of reality
  16. 29. a Buddhist monk
  17. 30. enlightenment, awakening
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  1. 1. "release" or "liberation" of the soul from reincarnation and its union with the Divine, the goal of Hinduism
  2. 2. one who has taken a vow to become a fully enlightened Buddha; someone known for an unbounded readiness and availability to help all sentient beings
  3. 3. symbolic hand position
  4. 5. physical and mental calm. One of the seven factors of enlightenment
  5. 7. the passing of the soul at death into another body
  6. 8. a heavy club used as a weapon and a symbol of authority; attribute of Vishnu
  7. 11. defilement; unwholesome qualities; a factor of mind that obscures clear seeing; a hindrance to meditation; also know as afflictive emotion
  8. 12. mental or physical formation
  9. 16. special, symbolic posture, seated or standing, used in yoga and in the representation of the gods
  10. 21. the third section of the Buddhist canon devoted to human psychology and philosophy
  11. 22. the spouse of a deity
  12. 23. a mind that is open to the experience of the moment, free of conceptual overlays
  13. 26. not self, insubstantiality, one of the three characteristics of existence