Geography
The region we studied in Chapter 1 & 2 is broadly known as this.
What is South & Southeast Asia?
The ethical consequences of a person's life which determine his/her fate.
What is Karma?
Hinduism follows many deities, meaning it is this type of religion/belief system.
What is polytheistic?
This prince was born into wealth and eventually gave it up on his path to meditation and enlightenment.
Who is Siddhartha Gautama?
This architectural masterpiece was a tribute to Shah Jahan's favorite wife.
What is the Taj Mahal?
This is one of the largest countries in Asia and the location of the Taj Mahal.
What is India?
The liberation from reincarnation (it was also the name of a popular 90's grunge band)
What is Nirvana?
These are the three most important deities in Hinduism.
Who are Shiva, Vishnu, and Devi?
Stupas are 3-D versions of these sacred diagrams of the universe.
What are mandalas?
The Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus was originally called this.
This place is home to the Borobudur
What is Indonesia?
Walking around a stupa in a clockwise direction, a process intended to bring the worshipper into harmony with the cosmos.
What is circumambulation?
These religious texts introduced the concepts of samsara, karma, and moksha.
What are the Upanishads?
Life is suffering. The cause of suffering is desire. One can overcome and extinguish desire. The way to conquer desire and end suffering is by following the Buddha's Eightfold Path.
What are these statements known as?
What are the Four Noble Truths?
The Walking Buddha from Sukhothai, Thailand is distinctly Thai portrayal of the Buddha because of this.
What is the walking position instead of sitting or laying down?
This place is the home of the Walking Buddha
The life cycle of birth, death, and reincarnation
What is samsara?
At the core of all Hindu temples is this area, which houses images or symbols of the deity.
What is the Garbha Gribha or the "womb chamber?"
The two most commonly practiced forms of Buddhism are Theravada and Mahayana. Explain the distinct difference in how each school portrays iconography in art.
What is aniconic imagery in Theravada Buddhism and imagery of the Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism?
The miniature depiction of this person Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings reflects the cultural preference of Islam over Western ideals.
Who is Jahangir?
This home of the Schwedagon Pagoda has two different names. List both.
What are Myanmar and Burma?
The essential element of Buddhist sanctuaries, a grand circular mound housing relics of the Buddha.
What is a stupa?
These temples feature Shikhara (beehive-like towers) and smaller towerlike roofs over the mandapas (halls) while these temples having flat roofs of the pillared mandapas.
What are Northern and Southern?
The Eightfold Path lists these necessary steps which will help one on their way to Nirvana.
What are right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration?
These artworks, similar to the cylinder seals found in Mesopotamia and displaying images of animals and human figures in yoga poses, are reflective of a highly developed system of trade.
What are Indus Seals?