Unit 3 Key Terms - Prepare to Suffer

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Across
  1. 1. The main character of a Biblical Book. He's the test subject in an experiment between God and Satan.
  2. 4. Simply understood this is a term that basically means everything is dependent on each other, or connected to each other. Sort of like if you sacrifice a goat you might become a sacrificed goat in a future life.
  3. 8. Suffering exists, suffering is caused by desire, there is a solution to the problem of suffering, the solution is the dharma
  4. 10. This term literally means something like "thirst" but is used to describe desire in Buddhism
  5. 11. In Buddhism the state of enlightenment which is really a state in which you no longer experience suffering
  6. 12. the "awakened one" or "enlightened one" the first person to reach the state of Nirvana and essentially the founding figure of Buddhism
  7. 13. These are characteristics that affect all things that exist: impermanence, dissatisfaction or suffering, and "non-essence" or the idea that there is no permanent unchanging soul in things.
Down
  1. 2. An idea in Catholicism and some other branches of Christianity which holds that humans have an innate predisposition to sin (or evil) as a consequence of Adam and Eve's disobedience in the Garden of Eden.
  2. 3. This term is often considered to be the opposite of "free will." It's simply the idea that all things are fated to happen and that humans don't have control over their own outcomes.
  3. 5. In Buddhism this is the term to refer to "teaching" while in Hinduism it means something like "actions" or "practice"
  4. 6. a problem in religious philosophy; assuming that there is one god and that god is all powerful, all good, and all knowing, why does evil exist?
  5. 7. This is a term used to refer to someone who has reached enlightenment but has chosen to stick around to help others. In some branches of Buddhism it's also used to refer to other lives of the Buddha.
  6. 9. This is the "goldilocks" zone in Buddhism, not too much and not too little. In latin it might be called "mediocre"
  7. 14. This is a fancy term to refer to the question of God's justice-essentially how can we understand why God punishes people and whether that is just?