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Flashcards by ejimenezward, updated more than 1 year ago
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| himalaya mountain | A mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,400 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan. The Himalayas include nine of the world's ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest. |
| monsoon | A wind system that influences large climatic regions and reverses direction seasonally. |
| harappa | A locality in the Indus River valley of the Punjab in Pakistan. Archaeological finds dating back to the third millennium bc include the remains of a well-laid-out city and indicate a possible link between Indian and Sumerian cultures. |
| aryans | A member of the people who spoke the parent language of the Indo-European languages. No longer in technical use. |
| 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. |
| vamas | each of the four Hindu castes, Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaishya, and Shudra. |
| caste system | A caste system is a class structure that is determined by birth. |
| 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 | 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 | that encompasses a variety of traditions, beliefs and spiritual practices largely based on teachings |
| siddhartha | Also called Butsu, Gautama, Gautama Buddha. |
| nirvana | Buddhism. freedom from the endless cycle of personal reincarnations, with their consequent suffering |
| asoka | Buddhist king in India 269 |
| noble truths | one of the four main precepts of Buddhism and Buddhist philosophy, specif. that life is suffering, that the cause of suffering is desire, that there can be an end to suffering, |
| eight fold path | the eight pursuits of one seeking enlightenment, comprising right understanding, motives, speech, action, means of livelihood, effort, intellectual activity, and contemplation. |
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