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- 3. The permanent professional branches of a government's administration, excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians.
- 4. A Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu, advocating humility and religious piety.
- 5. A ruler must be just to keep the approval of the gods.
- 11. The religious or philosophical belief that the soul or spirit, after biological death, begins a new life in a new body that may be human, animal or spiritual depending on the moral quality of the previous life's actions.
- 14. A loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur.
- 18. A subregion of Asia, consisting at least of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
- 20. An attitude of respect for parents and ancestors in societies influenced by Confucian thought.
- 22. The sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
- 24. A major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, which developed from Vedic religion.
- 25. A division of society based on differences of wealth, inherited rank or privilege, profession, occupation, or race.
- 26. The path to nirvana, comprising eight aspects in which an aspirant must become practiced: right views, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
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- 1. A monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.
- 2. An individual's duty fulfilled by observance of custom or law.
- 6. A periodic alternation of society between despotism and anarchy.
- 7. These are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
- 8. A system of fortified walls with a roadway along the top, constructed as a defense for China against the nomads of the regions that are now Mongolia and Manchuria.
- 9. The belief that all things exist as inseparable and contradictory opposites.
- 10. A person strongly in favor of a program, set of principles, etc., who attempts to persuade or convert others.
- 12. A people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and who were thought to have settled in ancient Iran and the northern Indian subcontinent.
- 13. The most ancient Hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and containing hymns, philosophy, and guidance on ritual for the priests of Vedic religion.
- 15. A transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
- 16. The universal self, identical with the eternal core of the personality that after death either transmigrates to a new life or attains release (moksha) from the bonds of existence.
- 17. Respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others.in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist tradition
- 19. Highest ranking of the four varnas, or social classes, in Hindu India.
- 21. Rulers of the Magadha (now Bihar) state in northeastern India.
- 23. Liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth