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| Question | Answer |
| Himalaya Mts. | The highest mountains in the world. |
| Monsoon. | A seasonal wind pattern in southern Asia. |
| Harappa. | Harappa is an archaeological site in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 km west of Sahiwal. |
| Aryans. | relating to or denoting a people speaking an Indo-European language who invaded northern India in the 2nd millennium BC |
| Sanskrit. | an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived. |
| Varnas. | each of the four Hindu castes, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra. |
| Caste system. | a class structure that is determined by birth. Loosely, it means that in some societies, if your parents are poor, you're going to be poor, too. Same goes for being rich, if you're a glass-half-full person. |
| Hinduism. | a major religious and cultural tradition of South Asia, developed from Vedic religion. |
| Yoga. | a Hindu spiritual and ascetic discipline, a part of which, including breath control, simple meditation, and the adoption of specific bodily postures, is widely practiced for health and relaxation. |
| Reincarnation. | the rebirth of a soul in a new body. |
| Karma. | (in Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences. |
| Dharma. | the principle of cosmic order. |
| Buddhism. | is a nontheistic religion [note 1] or philosophy (Sanskrit: dharma; Pali: dhamma) that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha, commonly known as the Buddha ("the awakened one"). |
| Siddhartha guatama. | Indian mystic and founder of Buddhism. Born a prince, he began preaching at the age of 35 after developing the central tenets of Buddhism through intense meditation. |
| Nirvana. | (in Buddhism) a transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism. |
| Noble thruths. | the doctrines of Buddha: all life is suffering, the cause of suffering is ignorant desire, this desire can be destroyed, the means to this is the Eightfold Path |
| Eightfold path. | he path to nirvana, comprising eight aspects in which an aspirant must become practiced: right views, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, and concentration |
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