India Creative vocab

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Across
  1. 2. - a Buddhist shrine, usually dome-shaped
  2. 5. -a large landmass that is smaller than a continent
  3. 6. -to focus one's thoughts to gain a higher level of spiritual awareness
  4. 9. -leaders/prices of the Indo-Aryan clans or tribes
  5. 11. -practicing nonviolence toward all living things
  6. 12. -a force that describes the form that people will be reborn into in their next lives
  7. 13. -an Indian prince
  8. 14. -the universal sport worshiped by Hindus
  9. 16. -untouchable, preformed unclean jobs like street sweepers, waste handlers, and dead body handlers
  10. 20. -the release from the pain and suffering of rebirth and becoming on with the universal sport. The ultimate peace in Hinduasim
  11. 21. - the governor of a province in ancient Persia
  12. 23. -In Buddhism, a state of perfect happiness and peace
  13. 24. -a religion founded in ancient India by the religious teacher Buddha
  14. 25. - a symbol in a writing system based on pictures
  15. 27. - a person who travels the holy sites
  16. 28. -ancient sacred writing of India
Down
  1. 1. -the first written language of India
  2. 3. -laws written in local languages on slabs of rocks or pillars so people could read them
  3. 4. -a branch of Buddhism that view Buddha as a great teacher, not a deity
  4. 7. -a branch of Buddhism
  5. 8. -a social group is born into and cannot change
  6. 10. -obedience to the moral law
  7. 15. -the rebirth of the soul
  8. 17. -ancient Sanskrit word for teacher or guide
  9. 18. -a religion of ancient India that does not believe in a supreme being, but emphasizes nonviolence and respect for all living things
  10. 19. -a major religion that developed in ancient India
  11. 20. -seasonal wind,especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia
  12. 22. -fortress
  13. 26. -native; originating in a particular place