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History Chp. 4
Question | Answer |
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Dharma | The moral duties of an individual that they must cultivate in life |
Karma | All the actions taken in a persons life |
Samsara | The cycle of reincarnation |
Siddartha Gautama | Born into high caste; parents kept him sheltered; saw suffering; set out to find enlightenment; sat under bodhi tree and was enlightened; Buddha- Enlightened One; |
Moksha | Union with Brahman |
Sati | Virtuous women who threw themselves into fire on husbands funeral pyre |
Four noble truths | 1. All life is suffering, sorrow and pain. 2. The cause of suffering is desire of things which are illusions 3. The only way to cure suffering is to overcome desire. 4. The way to overcome desire is to follow the Eightfold Path |
Mahayana | Buddhism for ordinary people; worship Buddha as god |
Laozi | Creator of Daoism; "Old Master"; wrote "The Way of Virtue" |
Filial piety | Respect for parents |
Hanfeizi | Creator of Legalism; very different philosophy |
Joint family | When parents children, grandchildren, uncles and other offspring live together in a common dwelling |
Shakti | A creative energy that only women supposedly possessed; completed husband |
The Analects | Collected sayings of Confucious |
Nirvana | Union with the universe |
Hinduism | -sacred texts: Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad-Gita (Mahabarata) - many gods (Shiva, Vishnu, brahma) - karma, dharma, moksha, samsara - ahimsa : nonviolence |
Buddhism | - Siddartha Guatama - Four Noble Truths - Eightfold Path: right views, right aspirations, right speech, righ conduct, right livelihood, right effort, right mindedness, right contemplation |
Caste system | -many castes - revolves life - different caste=different species - order/stability |
Confucianism | - 5 relationships: father to son, elder brother to younger brother, husband to wife, ruler to people, friend to friend - ruler good/ kind to people, people kind and respectful back to him - filial piety |
Daoism | -one with nature - no government - Laozi -"Those who know Daoism do not speak of it. Those who speak of it do not know it." |
Legalism | -Hanfeizi - "nature of man is evil" - strict laws and harsh punishments= archive order - ruler +power |
Indian village life | - joint family - sati/ shalt I -caste system - because of caste system, stable, well- oiled machine |
Philosophy | System of ideas |
Religion | Beleif/ worship of God/ gods |