Vocab 3

2. a virtue that involves showing love and respect for one's elders, especially parents, and can also extend to ancestors
3. persons actions and fate
6. Chinese protective wall
7. transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth.
9. ancient Persianrsian religion
10. an ancient Chinese belief system which emphasizes harmony with the natural, balanced order of the universe
12. dynasty of Brahman kings in northern India that ruled from 320–540 AD. The dynasty's court was a center of classical Indian art and literature
16. physiographical region in Southern Asia, mostly situated on the Indian Plate,
17. a collection of religious, cultural, and philosophical traditions from ancient India. It's characterized by several key beliefs, including:
18. cycle of rebirth through karma
20. Chinese yellow grains
24. a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote buddhism
25. a member of a people speaking an Indo-European (or specifically Indo-Iranian) language, or of an ancient people thought to have spoken the hypothetical proto-Indo-European language.

1. the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena
2. the four central beliefs containing the essence of Buddhist teaching
4. the rebirth of your life
5. path of rightness
8. the administrative system that runs the day-to-day affairs of the country
11. legitimize the rule of Chinese emperors and kings, and was a key part of Confucianism
13. respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others.
14. opposite complementary forces
15. the most ancient Hindu scriptures, written in early Sanskrit and contAryans hymns,
19. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
21. spiritual principal
22. path to nirvana
23. a political theory that describes the rise and fall of dynasties in Chinese history