SS7G12a&b: Ethnic & Religious Groups in Southern & Eastern Asia

1. the way people live, including their traditions, customs, food, & language.
3. the idea that your good or bad actions affect what happens to you in the future.
4. based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha).
7. living in peace with the world around you, including other people & nature.
9. feeling pain or sadness; physical or emotional.
11. the belief that after someone dies, they are born again in a nee life.
13. focuses on spirits found in nature & ancestors.
15. A state of understanding where someone feels at peace & free from life’s problems.

1. more of a philosophy than a religion. It stresses respect, kindness, and honesty.
2. lessons or ideas shared by someone like a religious leader or philosopher.
5. things that people do regularly/years, often passed down through families or communities.
6. in Shintoism, these are spirits found in nature, like trees, rivers, or mountains.
8. a way of thinking about how people should live, what is right & wrong, & how to make a good society.
10. in Buddhism, the final goal of being free from suffering & the cycle of being reborn.
12. one of the oldest religions in the world with many gods, but Brahma,Vishnu, and Shiva are most important.
14. in Hinduism, the freedom from the cycle of being reborn, where a person’s soul becomes one with the universe.