Grade 6, Chapter 8

1. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
2. the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire
4. economic assistance to persons in need
8. person of exceptional holiness
9. Buddhist worthy of Nirvana who postpones it to help others
12. just preceding something else in time or order
14. education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge
16. someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country
18. the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
19. the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

1. repeated sequence of events
3. the residence of a religious community
5. having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization
6. a religious male living in a monastery and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
7. the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong
10. able to attract interest or draw favorable attention
11. someone who practices self-denial as a spiritual discipline
13. reflect deeply on a subject
15. something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
17. a member of a religious community of women, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.