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2. the Confucian virtue of honoring elders in your family
8. the buddhist teaching of the means of attaing Nirvana through rightness of belief, resolve, speech, action, livelihood, effort, thought, and meditation
10. a region in south asia containing India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Bhutan
14. a pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties in china
17. the belief that after biological death, a person begins a new life in an organism
18. the universal self, identical with the eternal core of the personality that after death either transmigrates to a new life or attains release from the bonds of existance
19. The most ancient Hindu scripture
20. a loose deposit of yellowish silt-sized dust
22. someone who travels to foreign countries to perform charitable work
24. the ethical principle of not causing harm to other living things
25. a wall in northern china running west-to-east as a defense against Mongolia and Manchuria

1. the idea that a ruler must be just to keep the approval of the gods
3. the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering
4. one of the oldest monotheistic religions, having orginated in ancient Persia
5. the extinction of desire, hatred, and ignorance and, ultimately, of suffering and rebirth
6. the ultimate unchanging reality
7. a collection of the religion, culture, and philosophy of ancient india
9. liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth
11. the universal casual law by which good or bad actions determine the future modes of an individual's existance
12. an individual's duty fulfilled by observance of custom or law
13. the people speaking indo-europeon language who invaded northern india
14. an ancient Chinese belief that instructs believers on how to exist in harmony with the universe
15. the body of government officials who are employed in civil occupations that are neither political nor judicial
16. each of the hereditary classes of hindu society
21. all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites
23. a dynasty of Brahman kings of northern India of the 4th to 7th centuries