Across
- 3. ethical guidelines that ask followers to abstain from killing, stealing, sexual misconduct, lying, or using intoxicants
- 5. the act of renouncing worldly pleasures in order to detach oneself from desire for the material world so as to achieve enlightenment
- 8. the enlightened one
- 10. a tiered tower monument that serves as a place of worship, including the housing of sacred relics
- 12. No self/soul; you are simple a bundle of five processes
- 14. Sarira, objects, or remains of Buddha or other important Buddhists
- 15. one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism; the teachings of the path to enlightenment
- 17. A spiritual teacher who is deemed as qualified to pass on Buddhist teachings
- 18. the complete collection of scriptures in Theravada Buddhism
- 19. the encounters that caused Gautama Buddha to seek enlightenment. These encounters include an old man, a sick person, a corpse, and an ascetic
Down
- 1. One who is enlightened or working towards it, often while helping others also achieve enlightenment
- 2. A perfected person who has achieved enlightenment
- 4. Three Baskets (of Vinaya, Dutta, and Abhidhamma); the earliest record of the Buddha's teachings that form the foundation of Buddhism
- 6. the balancing of over-indulgence and asceticism. This is embodied in the Eightfold Path
- 7. Sacred scripture attributed to Gautama Buddha or his disciples
- 8. the object beneath which Siddhartha Gautama achieved enlightenment
- 9. one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism; the spiritual, practicing Buddhist community
- 11. peaceful liberation and enlightenment from Samsara, the cycle of death and rebirth
- 13. Highly detailed yet impermanent geometric designs that symbolize a celestial realm that is contemplated during meditation
- 16. Esoteric; a branch of Buddhism that emphasizes certain practices with the goal of more rapid enlightenment