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- 5. the administrative system of the traditional Chinese government which consists of all levels who run the day-to-day affairs in China.
- 6. an area in southern asia that is located on the indian plate
- 7. a Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-tzu ( fl. 6th century BC), advocating humility and religious piety.
- 8. (in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jainist tradition) respect for all living things and avoidance of violence toward others.
- 9. (in Indian religion) the eternal and inherent nature of reality, regarded in Hinduism as a cosmic law underlying right behavior and social order.
- 12. a Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interconnected forces.
- 14. In Confucianism, Chinese Buddhism, and Daoist ethics, a virtue of respect for one's parents, elders, and ancestors.
- 16. an important political theory in Chinese history. According to this theory, each dynasty of China rises to a political, cultural, and economic peak and then, because of moral corruption, declines, loses the Mandate of Heaven, and falls, only to be replaced by a new dynasty.
- 19. the four central beliefs containing the essence of Buddhist teaching.
- 20. a dynasty of Brahman kings of northern India of the 4th to the 7th centuries and especially to the art forms.
- 21. four canonical collections of hymns, prayers, and liturgical formulas that comprise the earliest Hindu sacred writings.
- 23. a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur, e.g., in eastern China and the American Midwest.
- 24. the spiritual life principle of the universe, especially when regarded as inherent in the real self of the individual.
- 25. (in Buddhism) a 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. It represents the final goal of Buddhism.
- 26. a member of the highest Hindu caste, that of the priesthood.
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- 1. a monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia founded by Zoroaster in the 6th century BC.
- 2. each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status.
- 3. the path to nirvana, comprising eight aspects in which an aspirant must become practiced: right views, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration.
- 4. a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
- 10. a Chinese political philosophy that was used in ancient and imperial China to legitimize the rule of the King or Emperor of China.
- 11. the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
- 13. a series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern borders of ancient Chinese states and Imperial China as protection against various nomadic groups.
- 15. (in Hinduism and Jainism) release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma.
- 17. a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, which developed from Vedic religion.
- 18. A group of people who were said to speak an archaic Indo-European language and migrated to india.
- 22. (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.