World Religion Review

___ is the positive force in nature manifested in light, warmth, dryness, and maleness.

One of the Five Classics; an anthology of poetry written between 1000 BCE and 500 BCE

Suffering or stress.

The Vedas and Upanishads are sacred (holy) sanskrit writing of which religion?

One of the oldest religions in the world and is the world third largest religion today.

One of the Five Classics;  a complex manual of divination.

___ attempts to explain religious behavior by making use of current theories in Psychology.

The central Daoist principle which means non-action.

One of the Five Classics; a well-organized collection of music, agriculture, the conduct of rulers, & even divination.

The ____ takes on many functions. Three of these functions are Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu.

What is reincarnation?

The heart of the Tripitaka that contains over 10,000 sayings attributed to the Buddha.

It is regarded as the first sermon of the founder of Buddhism, Siddharta Gautama.

This used to be the core of the curriculum for the Chinese civil service examinations.

It describes religious phenomena in terms of their function in human societies.