Vocabulary
A Hindu worship ceremony.
What is puja?
Around 400 BCE, this young prince became a great religious leader after experiencing a profound "awakening."
Who is Siddartha Guatama?
This country is the homeland of Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism.
What is India?
Do your ______. Get good _______. Escape _______. That's called _________.
What is dharma, karma, samsara, and moksha?
The law of cause and effect, of one's actions having an impact on one's future life.
What is karma?
These scenes led the Buddha to conclude that life is marked by suffering and impermanence.
What are the 4 Passing Sights?
This Muslim majority country shares a north-western border with India.
What is Pakistan?
Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva
What is the Trimurti?
The law of birth, death, and rebirth, or the process of reincarnation.
What is samsara?
This activist relied on Hindu principle of non-violence in his effort to gain India's independence from Britain.
Who was Mohandas Ghandi?
The large primarily Buddhist island country off the Southern tip of India.
What is Sri Lanka?
What is the Tridevi?
The end of personal suffering and the experience of unchanging peace.
What is nirvana?
This emperor was responsible for the spread of Buddhism beyond India during the 4th century BCE.
Who is Asoka?
North of India, this country was once part of a small Hindu kingdom in which the Buddha was born.
What is Nepal?
According to the Buddha, existence is marked by these 3 realities.
What suffering (dukkha), impermanence (annica), and 'not self' (anatta)?
A sacred Hindu story about Prince Arjuna and Krishan.
What is the Bhagavad Gita?
This ancient civilization thrived during the "pre-vedic" and practiced religious beliefs that evolved into Hinduism as we know it today.
What is the Indus Valley Civilization.
Despite it's early spread in this country, Buddhism became less significant here because of the spread of Islam and the resilience of Hinduism.
What is India?
What is a bodhisattva?