Across
- 1. a religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the teaching of Siddhārtha Gautama that suffering is inherent in life and that one can be liberated from it by cultivating wisdom, virtue, and concentration
- 4. to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another
- 6. sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own
- 11. a person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission
- 12. a major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single sovereign authority
- 14. when someone dies they are reborn into the next life
- 15. the dominant religion of India that emphasizes dharma with its resulting ritual and social observances and often mystical contemplation and ascetic practices
- 18. one of a class of Vedic treatises dealing with broad philosophical problems
- 19. the incarnation of a Hindu deity
- 20. a land that is its own but too small to be a contenent
Down
- 1. a Hindu of the highest caste traditionally assigned to the priesthood
- 2. a group of people moving from one contenent to another
- 3. a periodic wind especially in the Indian Ocean and southern Asia
- 4. a fortress that commands
- 5. a place or state of oblivion to care, pain, or external reality
- 7. the innermost essence of each individual
- 8. being eight times as great or as many
- 9. the Hindu and Buddhist doctrine of refraining from harming any living being
- 10. an individual's duty fulfilled by observance of custom or law
- 13. to engage in mental exercise
- 16. one of an ancient Indian people that established an empire taking in most of northern India and lasting from 321 to 184 b.c.
- 17. one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes