Vocab #3

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  1. 2. The hereditary classes of Hinduy society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status
  2. 5. A large body of religious texts orginally in Ancient India
  3. 8. A loosley compacted yellow-ish grey deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur
  4. 9. A person sent on a religious mission especially one sent to promot christanity in a foreign country
  5. 11. An ancient Indian empire
  6. 12. The path to nirvana comprising eight aspects in which an aspirant must become practiced
  7. 14. A chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China
  8. 18. The ultimate state of Soteriological release
  9. 20. A member of the highest Hindu caste that of the priesthood
  10. 22. A Chinese philisophical concept that describes opposite forces which are interconnected
  11. 23. The sum of a persons actions in this and previous states of existence
  12. 24. A person or animal in who a particular soul is believed to have been reborn
  13. 25. The four central beliefs containing the essence of Buddhist teaching
  14. 26. a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asis which delveloped from Vedic relgion
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  1. 1. A chinese political theory that states that each dynasty will rise and fall and be replaced by a new one.
  2. 3. The transcendent state attained as a result of being released from the cycle of rebirth
  3. 4. The professional branches of governemnt excluding military and judicial branches and elected politicians
  4. 6. A chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-Tzu advocating humility and religious petty
  5. 7. A series of fortificaton along the northern boarders to keep intruders out
  6. 10. A physiographical region in Southern Asia
  7. 13. In the Hindu Buddhist, and Jainist tradition of respecting all living things
  8. 15. The spiritual life principle of the universe
  9. 16. The eternal and inherent nature of reality regarding in Hinduism
  10. 17. Used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times
  11. 19. A vritue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors
  12. 21. A monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoriaster in the 6th century B.C.