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Buddhism Key Terms Pairs Pairs! Cut out the pairs and challenge your classmate to a game of pairs! There are a number of key terms each of which correspond to a teaching or belief. The key concepts are those that are underlined and the others are general words to help your understanding of the concepts. Can you figure them out? Practicing Doctrine of single-pointed impermanence – Non-injury to living meditation through which states nothing things; the doctrine of mindfulness of Anicca ever is but is always in Samatha Ahimsa non-violence. breathing in order to a state of becoming. calm the mind. ‘Foe Destroyer’. A person Phenomena arising who has destroyed all The Buddhist doctrine together in a mutually delusions through Anatta of no-self. Pratitya interdependent web of Arhat training on the spiritual cause and effect. path. They will never be reborn again in Samsara. A person who has Loving-kindness generated spontaneous meditation practiced bodhichitta but who Pain, suffering, disease Metta in order to ‘cultivate has not yet become a and disharmony. Bodhisattva Dukkha loving-kindness’ Buddha; delaying their Bhavana towards others. parinirvana in order to help mankind. Meditation practiced in (Skandhas – Sanskrit): Theravada Buddhism The four sublime The five aggregates involving states: metta, karuna, which make up the Brahmavihara Khandas Vipassana concentration on the mudita and upekkha. self, as we know it. body or its sensations. © WJEC CBAC LTD 2016 Pairs! A being who has completely abandoned Liberation and true Path to the cessation all delusions and their cessation of the cycle of suffering – the Buddha imprints. In general, Enlightenment of Samsara. Also Magga middle path of the ‘Buddha’ means referred to as Nirvana. fourth noble truth. ‘Awakened One’. Gaining the highest level of “Great vehicle” (to enlightenment where one “Action”. Actions that salvation). The name gains omniscient wisdom one makes throughout given to the more Buddhahood and whose function is to Karma their life will determine Mahayana bestow mental peace on all their future. progressive strands living beings. of Buddhism. Techniques that The virtuous acts of Compassion, one encourage and develop concentration, clarity, generosity, charity and of the four Dana Karuna Meditation emotional positivity, and giving of alms. Brahmavihara. a calm seeing of the true nature of things. A Theravada Buddhist A collection of festival that celebrates Loving-kindness, sayings of the the end of the monsoon one of the four Dhammapada Kathina season and is the largest Metta Buddha. almsgiving ceremony of brahmavihara. the Buddhist year. A summary of the Eightfold path of Buddhist The collective Sympathetic joy, practices leading Lakshana term for the Three Mudita one of the four Path to liberation from Marks of Existence. Brahmavihara. Samsara. © WJEC CBAC LTD 2016 Pairs! (Nekkhamma) – giving The Mahayana The Five Moral up the world doctrine that states all Precepts basic to and leading a holy sentient beings have Pancha Sila Renunciation life with a freedom Tathagatagarbha most schools of the potential to reach from lust, craving and Buddhism. Buddhahood. desire. The six perfections “Way of the Elders”, practiced by The continual cycle the name given to Bodhisattvas. They the only surviving are wisdom, patience, of birth, death and Paramitas Theravada school of generosity, meditative Samsara rebirth. awareness, effort and conservative precepts. Buddhism. Nirvana-after-death; Translated as takes place upon the ‘community’ and Equanimity, death of the body of referring to the one of the four Parinirvana someone who reached Sangha Buddhist community Upekkha nirvana during their of monks, nuns, and Brahmavihara lifetime. novices. A Buddhist A ceremony in which Monument monastery or dwelling offerings and other housing some place devoted to the acts of devotion are teaching and learning Puja performed in front of Stupa relic(s) of the Visharas of the Buddha’s holy beings. Buddha. message. Emptiness, a major Also known as Buddha Being reborn as a doctrine of Day, it commemorates result of Mahayana Buddhism the birth of the that all things are Rebirth circumstances that Sunyata Wesak Buddha-to-be, empty or permanent happened before. Siddhartha Gautama. essence. © WJEC CBAC LTD 2016.
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