Across
- 4. the four religious books of sacred knowledge and priestly rituals of the Brahmans composed in the first millennium B.C.E
- 6. the four foundations of mindfulness: contemplation of body, feeling, mind and mind-objects; the Buddha’s quintessential teachings on mindfulness
- 9. serpent
- 10. law; religious or moral duty
- 13. the auspicious power of wholesome action that brings positive karmic results
- 14. worshiper of Shiva; having to do with the worship of Shiva
- 15. the physical and mental energy needed for diligent mindfulness practice; the strong, courageous heart of energy
- 17. concentration; a deep state of meditation; one of the five spiritual faculties; one of the seven factors of enlightenment; an aspect of the Noble Eightfold Path
- 18. The pattern of conditioned habits that we mistake for a sense of self
- 19. action, deed; the law of cause and effect; intentional action, either wholesome or unwholesome that brings either pleasant or unpleasant results respectively
- 20. "womb chamber" the inner chamber, shrine of the Hindu temple
- 24. the doctrine that all mental and physical phenomena arise and pass away depending on causes and conditions
- 25. dome-like cap to the pyramidal tower of a South Indian Hindu temple or the entire tower of a North Indian temple
- 27. "to be made of flesh", that is, to be born into the world
- 28. the community of practitioners of the Buddhist path, or those beings who have attained direct realization of the nature of reality
- 29. a Buddhist monk
- 30. enlightenment, awakening
Down
- 1. "release" or "liberation" of the soul from reincarnation and its union with the Divine, the goal of Hinduism
- 2. one who has taken a vow to become a fully enlightened Buddha; someone known for an unbounded readiness and availability to help all sentient beings
- 3. symbolic hand position
- 5. physical and mental calm. One of the seven factors of enlightenment
- 7. the passing of the soul at death into another body
- 8. a heavy club used as a weapon and a symbol of authority; attribute of Vishnu
- 11. defilement; unwholesome qualities; a factor of mind that obscures clear seeing; a hindrance to meditation; also know as afflictive emotion
- 12. mental or physical formation
- 16. special, symbolic posture, seated or standing, used in yoga and in the representation of the gods
- 21. the third section of the Buddhist canon devoted to human psychology and philosophy
- 22. the spouse of a deity
- 23. a mind that is open to the experience of the moment, free of conceptual overlays
- 26. not self, insubstantiality, one of the three characteristics of existence