Vocab #3

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Across
  1. 2. Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration
  2. 3. opposite sides, elements, or extremes
  3. 6. the Hindu and Buddhist doctrine of refraining from harming any living being
  4. 11. a body of social, cultural, and religious beliefs and practices native to the Indian subcontinent
  5. 13. a Chinese mystical philosophy traditionally founded by Lao-tzu in the sixth century b.c. that teaches conformity to the Tao by unassertive action and simplicity
  6. 15. the innermost essence of each individual
  7. 17. a person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission
  8. 18. a member of the subgroup of Indo-European speakers ancestral to speakers of Indo-Aryan and Iranian languages
  9. 21. reverence for parents considered in Chinese ethics the prime virtue and the basis of all right human relations
  10. 25. the basic doctrines of Buddhism specifying that all life is subject to suffering
  11. 26. a Hindu principle of doing deeds that will affect how you are reincarnated
  12. 27. an Ancient Chinese concept where the ruler gains power through the will of God
Down
  1. 1. a wall built by the Ming Dynasty to protect the kingdom from Mongol invasion
  2. 4. where a dynasty is born, grows powerful, and then declines due to corruption, losing the "Mandate of Heaven" to a new dynasty that begins the cycle anew
  3. 5. rebirth in new bodies or forms of life
  4. 7. a member of the highest priestly class of Hindu society
  5. 8. a collection of ancient Hindu scriptures
  6. 9. the administrative service of a government or international agency exclusive of the armed forces
  7. 10. the release of a person's soul from Karma
  8. 12. an individual's duty fulfilled by observance of custom or law
  9. 14. a Hindu principle of being released from karma and attaining Nirvana
  10. 16. a large landmass on an Indian tectonic plate
  11. 19. a Buddhist principle that serves as a guide to liberation from suffering and is composed of eight practices: Right View, Right Resolve, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood
  12. 20. one of the classes into which the Hindu people of India were formerly divided
  13. 22. a Persian religion founded in the sixth century b.c. by the prophet Zoroaster
  14. 23. a type of fine-grained, wind-deposited sediment
  15. 24. an Indian Empire that was considered the Golden Age of India