Across
- 2. A literary term: a person or thing that contrasts with and so enhances the qualities of another
- 6. Word choice
- 10. The belief that a person's soul is reborn into a new body after they die. The Sanskrit word for ________ is samsara.
- 11. The Illustrious One: _________ Buddha
- 14. The Buddha is the _______ one.
- 15. An ancient Indian language in which Buddhist and Hindu texts are written
- 16. Siddhartha's "shadow" who is now partaking on his own journey
- 17. A religion based on the teachings of the Buddha
- 20. The belief that good and evil done in past lives determines what a person's next life will consist of
- 22. The five _______: attachment, aversion, ignorance, pride, jealousy
- 26. Impermanence
- 28. Denial of the soul or the self
- 29. The number of "folds" on the path to enlightenment
Down
- 1. a distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition
- 3. According to the Four Noble Truths, all __________ comes from desire.
- 4. A state of perfect peace; nothingness
- 5. Deliverance; preservation from harm or loss
- 7. Arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences
- 8. Country in which Herman Hesse lived while writing this novel
- 9. a type of third-person narrator that knows thoughts of all characters
- 12. A sacred, mystical syllable that appears at the beginning and end of prayers
- 13. The Way of the Elders; A type of Buddhism founded in Southeast Asia
- 17. The Hindu caste that contains priests and religious scholars
- 18. The continuous cycle of death and rebirth
- 19. The color of the robes donned by the followers of the Buddha.
- 21. The word for a repeated phrase often used in meditation
- 23. wandering aesetics who seek to relinquish the self of all needs and wants.
- 24. Suffering, which is nature of human existence in the first noble truth
- 25. Hinduism and Buddhism both developed in the subcontinent of ________
- 27. Events that repeat over and over again; some see this ______ of death and rebirth as the path toward enlightenment.