Across
- 4. respect for all living things
- 6. people of proto-indo european heritage as racial grouping in late 19th century
- 7. hereditary classes of Hindu society
- 11. ancient Persian religion monotheistic
- 12. service government officials who are employed in civil occupations that are neither political or judicial
- 14. region in southeast Asia
- 15. a collection of poems or hymns composed in archaic Sanskrit
- 16. ancient Indian empire which extended from early 4th century CE to early 6th century CE
- 22. release from the cycle rebirth impelled by the law of karma
- 24. the religious' belief that the soul or spirit after death begins a new life
- 25. wall wall across borders of China to protect against invaders
- 26. the universal law by which good or bad actions determine the future of an individual's existence
Down
- 1. a place of perfect peace and happiness like heaven
- 2. cycle the pattern of the rise and fall of dynasties in China
- 3. a person sent on a religious mission
- 5. a member of the highest Hindu caste
- 8. a unstratified geologically recent deposit if silty material
- 9. a major religious' and cultural tradition of South Asia
- 10. of Heaven the idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time
- 13. Fold path attaining Nirvana through belief resolve, speech, action, thought, and meditation
- 17. all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites
- 18. noble truths truth of suffering, end of suffering, path that leads to suffering
- 19. ancient Chinese belief system which emphasizes harmony with natural balanced order of the universe
- 20. Piety a Confucian concept defined from Chinese culture
- 21. the eternal and inherit nature of reality as a cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order
- 23. the spiritual life principle of the universe