Across
- 3. a person's good or bad actions in one life determine his or her position, wealth, & social class in the next life
- 5. ultimate state of enlightenment, happiness, & peace; Hindu belief
- 7. a group of people who share a belief system
- 8. follower of Buddhism
- 10. ancient religion that began in India; dominant religion in India today
- 11. belief in more than one god
- 15. ethnic group from the Philippines
- 18. enlightened one; S. Gautama
- 20. built to help worship ancestors believed to have become kami after death
- 21. ancient Chinese philosophy; foundation of modern Chinese culture
- 22. follower of Hinduism
- 23. a social & class order system followed by Hindus
- 25. Hindu & Buddhist belief; cycle of birth, death, & rebirth
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- 1. founder of Buddhism
- 2. goal of Hindus; peace & freedom from the cycle of reincarnation
- 3. Shinto belief; spirit of a god
- 4. the study of the basic ideas about knowledge, right & wrong, reasoning, & the value of things
- 6. Hindu sacred text
- 9. holy book of Buddhism
- 12. mark the separation between the human world & the world of kami
- 13. ethnic group from Vietnam
- 14. founder of Confucianism
- 16. ethnic group from Indonesia
- 17. 4th largest religion in the world
- 19. belief system that is unique to Japan
- 24. a group of people who share common characteristics such as language, physical appearance, customs, & traditions