Across
- 6. Impermanent, one of the three characteristics of existence. Buddhist teachings emphasize that all conditioned mental and physical phenomena are impermanent – nothing lasts, nothing stays the same.
- 8. symbol of creativity and fertility in the form
- 9. Mental or physical formation
- 12. Suffering; of pain, both mental and physical, of change, and endemic to cyclic existance; the first Noble Truth that acknowledges the reality of suffering
- 13. Interest and inquiry into experience. One of the seven factors of enlightenment
- 15. the passing of the soul at death into another
- 17. Mindfulness of breathing
- 20. origination The doctrine that all mental and physical phenomena arise and pass away depending on causes and conditions
- 22. a three-pronged spear; attribute of Shiva
- 24. The practice of giving; generosity. Dana is the first of the ten paramis, or qualities to be perfected in order to become a Buddha
- 25. of Shiva
- 26. serpent
- 28. Careful attention to mental and physical processes; a key ingredient of meditation; one of the five spiritual faculties; one of the seven factors of enlightenment; an aspect of the Noble Eightfold Path
- 29. animal mount of a deity which identifies the god or goddess
Down
- 1. A Buddhist monk
- 2. "to be made flesh"; that is, to be born into the world
- 3. A gladdening of the mind and body. One of the seven factors of enlightenment
- 4. to be born again as another form of life or into another class of human society
- 5. worshiper of Shakti, the Goddess
- 7. appearance of a deity in another form
- 10. Fully awakened one; specifically the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, who lived and taught in India 2,500 years ago; one of the three jewels of refuge
- 11. Awakening
- 14. the spouse of a deity
- 16. symbolic hand position
- 18. the breath of life; the vital breath or spirit
- 19. an object or physical characteristic used as
- 21. law; religious or moral duty
- 23. worshiper of Shiva; having to do with the
- 27. Enlightenment, awakening
- 30. The pattern of conditioned habits that we mistake for a sense of self
