East and West
The Greek philosopher and inventor of rational dialog that developed in Classical Athens.
Who was Socrates?
Practiced mainly in Tibet, China, Korea and Japan, this type of Buddhism was embodied in the ideal of the boddhisatva.
What was Mahayana Buddhism?
Roughly 95% of the world's Hindus live in this country.
What is India?
The original scripture of the Tao.
What was the Tao Te Ching?
The branch of science that deals with the structure of matter and how matter interacts in the universe.
What is Physics?
The imperial Chinese template for a harmonious society.
What was Confucianism?
Rendered in Sanskrit as dukkha, this core concept of the Four Noble Truths drove Buddhist practice.
What was suffering (or desire)?
Sanskrit for "color," this layer of related occupations is the description for each caste.
What is varna?
Viewed as a contemporary of Confucius, this 5th century BCE sage initiated the school of Taoism.
Who was Lao Tzu?
In role playing games, the number measuring the amount of damage a creature, character, or object can take.
What are hit points?
The chosen people.
Who were the Jews?
The collective name for the practices which lead one to liberation from Samsara.
What is the Noble Eightfold Path?
This is the name for the Hindu canon, including the most famous edition called Bhagavad Gita.
What are the Vedas?
This was the poetic term applied to all matter and creation under Heaven.
What was the Ten Thousand Things?
A component of the universe whose presence is discerned from its gravitational attraction rather than its luminosity
What is dark matter?
The Buddhist Jew who went around baptising the poor in the Eastern Mediterranean.
Who was Jesus Christ?
Leaving his comfortable life, this bhikku's dharma was transmitted across East and Southeast Asia.
Who was Siddhartha Gautama?
The supreme existence or absolute reality.
What is brahman?
Opposing and complementary forces found within the Tao.
What was yin and yang?
Onboard the starship Enterprise, these were members of the Security and Tactical Division, often performing dangerous and lethal tasks.
Who were the Red shirts?
Coined by German philosopher Karl Jaspers, this refers to the period between 900 and 300 BCE, when the intellectual, philosophical, and religious systems that came to shape subsequent human society and culture emerged.
What was the Axial Age?
This "School of the Elders" is viewed as adhering to the Buddha's original intentions.
What is Theravada?
Siddhartha was a born-member of this caste.
What was Kshatriya?
Combined with Buddhism, Taoism would be reinterpreted in Japan as this.
What is Zen?
Princess Leia's home planet.
What was Alderaan?