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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
almost 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Samsara | The cycle of life, which includes birth, living, death and returning to life. The term can be literally translated as ‘continuous movement’. |
| Punabbhava/ punarbhava | Rebirth – as distinct from reincarnation. |
| The Six Realms of Existence | Places where the Buddhist can be reborn. |
| Naraka | The realm of Hell, where souls go when they have accumulated particularly bad karma. |
| Preta | The realm of the hungry ghosts, where souls go when they have excessive cravings and attachments. |
| Tiryagyoni | The realm of the animals, similar to the hellish realm. |
| Manusya | The realm of humans. Not brilliant, but at least it offers the possibility of reaching nirvana. |
| Asura | The realm of the demi-gods - who are mainly defined by anger and jealously. |
| Deva | The realm of the gods. Very pleasant. However, when death arrives, they are always unprepared. |
| Karma/ Kamma | The action, not the result. The effects of karma are spoken of as the ‘fruits’ or the ‘result’ of karma.” |
| Phalas and Samskaras | Karmic fruits. Phalas appear immediately; Samskaras may take until another life. |
| Karmic seeds and karmic fruits | Consequences of actions, the one germinating and growing into the other. |
| Paticcasamuppada/ Prtityasamutpada | The doctrine of dependent origination. Holds that all physical and mental states are dependent on other such states in the sense of being caused by them. |
| The Twelve Nidanas | A chain of twelve causes that cause rebirth and dukkha. Only nirvana is independent of the chain of causes. |
| Annica/ anitya | One of the Three Marks of Existence. Impermanence. The idea that everything is changing, nothing lasts. |
| Anatta/ anatman | One of the Three Marks of Existence. There is no permanent self. I am always changing. |
| Dukkha/ duhkha | One of the Three Marks of Existence. ‘Suffering’ or ‘unsatisfactoriness’. |
| The Questions of King Milinda | A Buddhist text that dates from about 100BCE. Takes the form of a number of questions from King Milinda to a monk called Nagasena, together with the answers. |
| The five skandhas | (1) Matter/body, (2) feelings/sensations, (3) perceptions, (4) mental formations, and (5) consciousness. These go to make up our notion of ‘self’. |
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