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Buddhism Key Words: Insight
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- 1SamsaraThe cycle of life, which includes birth, living, death and returning to life. The term can be literally translated as ‘continuous movement’.
- 2Punabbhava/ punarbhavaRebirth – as distinct from reincarnation.
- 3The Six Realms of ExistencePlaces where the Buddhist can be reborn.
- 4NarakaThe realm of Hell, where souls go when they have accumulated particularly bad karma.
- 5PretaThe realm of the hungry ghosts, where souls go when they have excessive cravings and attachments.
- 6TiryagyoniThe realm of the animals, similar to the hellish realm.
- 7ManusyaThe realm of humans. Not brilliant, but at least it offers the possibility of reaching nirvana.
- 8AsuraThe realm of the demi-gods - who are mainly defined by anger and jealously.
- 9DevaThe realm of the gods. Very pleasant. However, when death arrives, they are always unprepared.
- 10Karma/ KammaThe action, not the result. The effects of karma are spoken of as the ‘fruits’ or the ‘result’ of karma.”
- 11Phalas and SamskarasKarmic fruits. Phalas appear immediately; Samskaras may take until another life.
- 12Karmic seeds and karmic fruitsConsequences of actions, the one germinating and growing into the other.
- 13Paticcasamuppada/ PrtityasamutpadaThe doctrine of dependent origination. Holds that all physical and mental states are dependent on other such states in the sense of being caused by them.
- 14The Twelve NidanasA chain of twelve causes that cause rebirth and dukkha. Only nirvana is independent of the chain of causes.
- 15Annica/ anityaOne of the Three Marks of Existence. Impermanence. The idea that everything is changing, nothing lasts.
- 16Anatta/ anatmanOne of the Three Marks of Existence. There is no permanent self. I am always changing.
- 17Dukkha/ duhkhaOne of the Three Marks of Existence. ‘Suffering’ or ‘unsatisfactoriness’.
- 18The Questions of King MilindaA Buddhist text that dates from about 100BCE. Takes the form of a number of questions from King Milinda to a monk called Nagasena, together with the answers.
- 19The five skandhas(1) Matter/body, (2) feelings/sensations, (3)
perceptions, (4) mental formations, and (5)
consciousness. These go to make up our notion of ‘self’.
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