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- 2. a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths to which one is otherwise subject.
- 4. a period of ten years:
- 6. the sacred text of Islam, divided into 114 chapters, or suras: revered as the word of God, dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel, and accepted as the foundation of Islamic law, religion, culture, and politics.
- 7. Two or more timelines put together to compare different events in the same era.
- 8. the Christian religion, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches.
- 10. any of a series of teachers in Buddhism, of whom Gautama was the last, who bring enlightenment and wisdom.
- 12. A diagram that shows the relationship between concepts.
- 18. the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time:
- 21. any of the early followers of Jesus who carried the Christian message into the world.
- 22. the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
- 23. the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions.
- 26. a journey, especially a long one, made to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion:
- 27. something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
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- 1. also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship that play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity.
- 3. according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India in the 6th-5th centuries BCE
- 5. contains a single line with dates and events in chrono- logical order.
- 9. the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form.
- 11. They 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.
- 13. A period of 1000 years.
- 14. Order the arrangement of things following one after another in time:
- 15. the monotheistic religion of the Jews, having its ethical, ceremonial, and legal foundation in the precepts of the Old Testament and in the teachings and commentaries of the rabbis as found chiefly in the Talmud.
- 16. a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects.
- 17. he Arab prophet who, according to Islam, was the last messenger of Allah
- 19. the whole body of Muslim believers, their civilization, and the countries in which theirs is the dominant religion.
- 20. A period of 100 years.
- 24. a descriptive heading or caption, as of a chapter, section, or other part of a book.
- 25. The Holy Fathers Son.