Buddhist Beliefs and Practices

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  1. 5. A perfected person. In Theravada Buddhism this is a term for a person who has attained nibbana
  2. 6. Coloured patterns of sand
  3. 9. Ritual Puja. A ceremony that involves meditation, prayer and offerings.
  4. 11. A concept in Mahayana Buddhism. A being destined for enlightenment,
  5. 12. Wisdom or understanding enabling clarity of perception; this allows a Buddhist to be freed from the cycle of rebirth
  6. 13. The Sanskrit form of kamma. Literally 'action'. Deliberate actions that affect the believer's circumstances in this and future lives; cause and effect
  7. 16. Monasteries. Buildings that house monks and nuns
  8. 18. No fixed self, no soul; the Universal Truth that the soul is insubstantial; that people change in the course of their lives; denial of a real or permanent self.
  9. 19. This refers to the belief that when a person dies he / she is reborn and that this process of death and rebirth continues until nibbana is attained
  10. 22. Burial Body is eaten by vultures in Tibet
  11. 23. A life free from worldly pleasures (especially sexual activity and consumption of alcohol), often with the aim of pursuing religious and spiritual goals.
  12. 25. Buddhist place of community worship
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  1. 1. The Sanskrit form of nibbana
  2. 2. Tower that contains relics or bones
  3. 3. postpones final attainment of Buddhahood in order to help living
  4. 4. impermanence, no self).
  5. 7. Arising Paticcasamupada. The belief that everything in existence is because other things are. The idea that everything is interconnected and that everyone affects everyone else
  6. 8. Three Refuges Buddha, Dhamma, Sangha.
  7. 10. Anicca. The idea of instability, nothing being permanent
  8. 12. Sometimes known as the Three Universal Truths: dukkha, anicca, anatta
  9. 13. Compassion – showing concern for others
  10. 14. Prayer beads
  11. 15. Suffering; ill; everything leads to suffering; unsatisfactoriness.
  12. 17. Impermanence, instability, not permanent.
  13. 20. Path The fourth Noble Truth. Magga. The Middle Way. The way to wisdom; mental training and the way of morality. Eight stages to be practised simultaneously.
  14. 21. A Buddhist festival celebrating the Buddha's birth. For some Buddhists it also celebrates his enlightenment and death
  15. 24. Three Universal Truths Dukkha, anicca, anatta (unsatisfactoriness, impermanence, no self). Also known as the Three Marks of Existence.