Vocab #3
Across
- 1. A hereditary class in Hinduism that doesn't allow association with other castes
- 4. A cycle of grasping at things, ideas, and habits
- 8. A Chinese political ideology to legitimize the rule of the Chinese king
- 10. An ancient Indian principle of non-violence to all living things
- 13. A pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties in China
- 19. The path to Nirvana with eight aspects that people have to practice
- 20. Career civil servants hired rather than appointed to the position
- 21. A cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order
- 22. a person sent on a religious mission to another country
- 24. A Hinduism term for a persons soul
- 25. An ancient Indian civilization from the 4th to 6th century CE that covered most of the Indian subcontinent
- 26. Supporters of both magic and proto-science in ancient China
Down
- 2. Built in ancient China to defend against northern attacks
- 3. A member of the highest Indian caste, the priesthood
- 5. loosely compacted yellow-gray deposit of windblown sediment
- 6. Subcontinent A region in southern Asia
- 7. The most ancient Hindu scriptures containing hymns, philosophy and ritual guidance
- 9. A member of people speaking an Indo-European language
- 11. A transcendent state received from being released from the cycle of rebirth
- 12. Iranian religion. Had dual cosmology of good and evil. Inspired God and Satan
- 14. The virtue of exhibiting the proper love and respect for parents and elders
- 15. Someone's actions in this or past lives that determine their fate in future lives
- 16. Person/Animal in what a certain soul is thought to have been reborn
- 17. A Chinese philosophic symbol describing opposite, but connected forces
- 18. The oldest Indian religion with the belief that the universe is God, and God is the universe
- 23. A state in which there is no suffering, desire, or sense of self