Vocab #3 Crossword

7. The rebirth of the soul into a new body
8. A region in southern Asia; it projects outward into the Indian Ocean
12. A member of a religious group which is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people
14. A religious text that originated in ancient India.
19. The path to nirvana comprising of eight aspects in which an aspirant must become practiced
21. A monotheistic pre-Islamic religion of ancient Persia
24. The release from the cycle of rebirth impelled by the law of karma
25. The sum of a persons actions in this and previous states of existence
26. A member of the highest Hindu Caste; that of priest-hood

1. The virtue of exhibiting the proper love and respect for ones elders, parents, and ancestors
2. The eternal and inherent nature of reality
3. A Chinese political theory that states each Chinese dynasty will rise to political, economic, and cultural peak and then falls due to moral corruption
4. The belief that emperors had the divine right to rule and that right was given to them by a god in heaven
5. People were promoted due to their "merit" or how well they scored on the exams and not based on their family or wealth
6. Comprise the essence of Buddha's teachings
9. A Chinese philosophical concept that describes opposite but interacting forses
10. A transendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of the self
11. Each of the hereditary classes of the Hindu Society
13. A series of fortifications that were built across the historical northern boarders of China
15. A diverse collection of Indo-European peoples speaking Indo-Aryan languages in the Indian subcontinent
16. A loosely compacted deposit of windblown sement (mainly found in China and the American Midwest
17. A Chinese philosophy based on the writings of Lao-Tzu
18. The respect of all living things and the avoidence of violence towards others
20. A major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia
22. The principal regarded as inherent in the real self
23. An Indian empire which existed from the early 4th century B.C.E to the early 6th century B.C.E