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| Himalayas | the, a mountain range extending about 1500 miles (2400 km) along the border between India and Tibet. Highest peak, Mt. Everest, 29,028 feet |
| monsoon | the seasonal wind of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter. |
| harappa | a village in Pakistan: site of successive cities of the Indus valley civilization. |
| aryans | Ethnology. a member or descendant of the prehistoric people who spoke Indo-European. |
| sanskrit | an Indo-European, Indic language, in use since c1200 b.c. as the religious and classical literary language of India. |
| varnas | a seaport in NE Bulgaria, on the Black Sea. |
| caste system | the rigid Hindu system of hereditary social distinctions based on castes. |
| hinduism | the common religion of India, based upon the religion of the original Aryan settlers as expounded and evolved in the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Bhagavad-Gita, etc., having an extremely diversified character with many schools of philosophy and theology, many popular cults, and a large pantheon symbolizing the many attributes of a single god. Buddhism and Jainism are outside the Hindu tradition but are regarded as related religions |
| yoga | a school of Hindu philosophy advocating and prescribing a course of physical and mental disciplines for attaining liberation from the material world and union of the self with the Supreme Being or ultimate principle. |
| reincarnation | the belief that the soul, upon death of the body, comes back to earth in another body or form. |
| karma | Hinduism, Buddhism. action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results, good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation: in Hinduism one of the means of reaching Brahman. |
| buddism | ? |
| siddhartha | ? |
| nirvana | (often initial capital letter). Pali nibbana. Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering, as a result of the extinction of individual passion, hatred, and delusion: attained by the Arhat as his goal but postponed by the Bodhisattva. |
| 4 nobel truths | The Four Noble Truths (Sanskrit: catvāri āryasatyāni; Pali: cattāri ariyasaccāni) are "the truths of the Noble Ones," which express the basic orientation of Buddhism: this worldly existence is fundamentally unsatisfactory, but there is a path to liberation from repeated worldly existence. |
| eight fold path | the eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation. |
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