Buddhism terms

2. Buddha’s teachings.
3. A Theravada Buddhist festival that celebrates the end of the monsoon season and is the largest almsgiving ceremony of the Buddhist year.
8. A summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from Samsara.
11. takes place upon the death of the body of someone who reached nirvana during their lifetime.
12. Symbolic sounds or words.
14. Practicing single-pointed meditation through mindfulness of breathing in order to calm the mind and its ‘formations’.
15. Tibetan translation of ‘guru’ meaning spiritual teacher.
16. Translates as compassion.
18. Loving-kindness meditation practiced in order to ‘cultivate loving-kindness’towards others.
20. Pain, suffering, disease and disharmony.

1. Can be translated as ‘craving’ or‘desire’,which can be either physical or mental.
4. – Enlightenment, total egolessness.
5. Path to the cessation of suffering, the middle path of the fourth noble truth.
6. Also known as Buddha Day, it commemorates the birth of the Buddha-to-be, Siddhartha Gautama
7. The demon that tempted Siddhartha Gautama while he was meditating.
9. – Translated as ‘community’ and referring to the Buddhist community of monks, nuns,and novices.
10. Meditation practiced in Theravada Buddhism that involves concentration on the body or its sensations.
13. These are the four teachings that form the essence of Buddha’s teachings
17. Stories relating to the past lives of the Buddha.
19. A being that has completely abandoned all delusions and their imprints.