Hinduism & Buddhism Hope Springer & Kylie Holt
Across
- 4. a three-pronged spear; attribute of Shiva
- 5. Enlightenment, awakening
- 6. Action, deed; the law of cause and effect; intentional action, either wholesome or unwholesome that brings either pleasant or unpleasant results respectively
- 8. A Buddhist monk
- 10. Mindfulness of breathing
- 11. with the two representing the female and male principles of the universe
- 12. a round disk thrown as a weapon in ancient India; attribute of Vishnu
- 14. Enlightened one; someone whose mind is completely free from the defilements; a person who is no longer bound to cyclic existence
- 16. Suffering; of pain, both mental and physical, of change, and endemic to cyclic existance; the first Noble Truth that acknowledges the reality of suffering
- 17. A term referring to the group of meditation practices that aim at samadhi
- 19. worshipper of Vishnu, having to do with the worship of Vishnu
- 20. the passing of the soul at death into another body
- 23. The tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment in Bodh Gaya, India – a fig tree popularly called Pipal (Ficus Religiosa)
- 25. a heavy club used as a weapon and a symbol of authority; attribute of Vishnu
- 26. A Buddhist nun
- 28. often represented as a goddess beside
- 30. special, symbolic posture, seated or standing, used in yoga and in the representation of the gods
- 32. symbolic hand position
Down
- 1. the breath of life; the vital breath or spirit
- 2. of breathing
- 3. "womb chamber" the inner, shrine of a Hindu temple.
- 7. "release" or "liberation" of the soul from reincarnation and its union with the Divine the goal of Hinduism
- 9. Spiritual friend. In the Theravada Buddhist meditation tradition, teachers are often referred to as spiritual friends
- 12. the religious and moral duties of the person
- 13. the Goddess; female energy and power of a
- 15. Not self, insubstantiality, one of the three character of existence
- 18. A mind that is open to the experience of the moment, free of conceptual overlays; first made popular by the Zen teacher Suzuki Roshi
- 21. Piti A gladdening of the mind and body. One of the seven factors of enlightenment
- 22. an object or physical characteristic used as an identifying symbol
- 24. A spiritual path that avoids extremes of self-mortification and self-indulgence, as discovered and taught by the Buddha
- 27. symbol of creativity and fertility in the formof the male sexual organ
- 29. the four religious books of sacred knowledge and priestly rituals of the Brahmans composed in the first millennium B.C.E.
- 31. serpent