LaMont World Religions Quarter A

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

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

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

The belief that Jesus is the physical embodiment of God

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

The Buddhist word for teacher or enlightened one 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

the branch of Buddhism that welcomes lay participation 

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

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

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

In Buddhism, the teachings of the Buddha 

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

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

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

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

The Hindu destroyer 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

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

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

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

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

A monastic branch of Buddhism (confined to monks)

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

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