LaMont World Religions Quarter A

For a Hindu, the individual soul or essence, the unseen presence of God 

For a Hindu, the  “credit” a human accumulates in this life through good actions 

the entire community of Buddhist monks, nuns, and lay people

The Hindu destroyer god, one of three primary forms of Brahman

Buddha’s vision of a sick person, old person, dead person, and holy beggar person

the opportunity for wholeness, forgiveness, eternal life achieved when God invites, we respond.

the Buddhist and Hindu belief in nonviolence in the face of injustice

A religious way of life involving separation from the world, living in community, contemplation

For a Hindu, liberation from the cycle of samsara to unlimited being, knowing, bliss

the branch of Buddhism that welcomes lay participation 

Hindu act of reverence through through invocations, prayers, songs, and rituals. 

The work of bringing two or more parties into “right relationship” 

a way of seeing and feeling what is true and real that leads to a particular way of acting. 

One of four spiritual disciplines or paths a Hindu can take to pursue moksha 

The state of peace, freedom, and enlightenment that is the spiritual goal of Buddhists

The Buddhist word for teacher or enlightened one 

The belief that Jesus is the physical embodiment of God

the belief in a single God while accepting the possible existence of other deities. 

The Hindu belief that the physical world is illusion; reality requires deeper "seeing"

A policy of nonviolent resistance to injustice through civil disobedience, noncooperation

the change  that occurs in us as God invites us to use our talents to build the kingdom

A monastic branch of Buddhism (confined to monks)

the gift of God’s presence inviting us to conversion, encountered in persons or events.

In Buddhism, the teachings of the Buddha 

For a Hindu, the repeating cycle of birth, death, new life until oneness with Brahman achieved

The Hindu creator god, one of three primary forms of Brahman

a transforming experience of God that invites a kingdom-building response

the denial of any distinction or duality between God and the world, between creator & creation

The Hindu preserver god, one of three primary forms of Brahman 

the doctrine or belief that there is only one God

Buddhist program of right thought, action to overcome selfish desire that causes suffering

An avatar, or human incarnation, of the Hindu god Vishnu.

Buddhist doctrine of “nonself” which holds that the self does not exist as a separate entity

the ideal world that God imagines for all and to which God invites all (Christian term)

The Buddhist belief that life’s inescapable suffering is caused by selfish desire