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Flashcards by Alice Gorodetsky, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alice Gorodetsky
about 11 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| SHILPA | art and craft |
| SHASTRA | rules science and basic knowledge |
| RASA THEORY | the viewer's essence must be moved enough in order for something to be considered art |
| RASIKA | the viewer |
| NATYA SHASTRA | the science of dance |
| DHARMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) | virtue |
| ARTHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) | wealth |
| KAMA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) | love |
| MOKSHA (AIM OF HINDU LIFE) | liberation |
| VEDA | knowledge |
| RIGVEDA | text from 1300 BCE 10 hymns by Indra (war) and Agni (fire) |
| ARYA | noble |
| MANTRA | a verse |
| MUDRA | gesture |
| BRAHMIN | vedic priest |
| KSHATRIYA | vedic warrior |
| VAISHYA | vedic merchant |
| SHUDRA | vedic manual laborer |
| THE BUDDHA | came from the SHAKYA clan found enlightment under pipal/bodhi tree gave first sermon in deer park four signs- age, sickness, death, renunciation |
| DHAMMA | Buddhist Doctrine |
| SAMGHA | buddhist monastic community |
| BHIKKU | Buddhist monks |
| STUPA | mound or heap of earth |
| PRADAKSHINA | circumambulation |
| VIHARA | Bhuddist Monastary |
| CHAITYA GRIHA | prayer hall |
| CHATTRA | The umbrella on top of a stupa which symbolizes the pipal tree under which the Buddha found enlightenment. |
| HARMIKA | Fence around the chattra on a stupa. |
| TORANA | Gates found around the stupa in the four cardinal directions which symbolize the far reaching scope of Bhuddism. |
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