Hinduism & Buddhism Hope Springer & Kylie Holt

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