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    Component 3 – Short Course – Key Terms (Buddhism)

    Learners should be able to explain and apply these terms in relation to the
    themes:

    1. Anicca – The Buddhist doctrine of impermanence – which states nothing ever is but is
    always in a state of becoming.
    2. Anatta – The Buddhist doctrine of no-self.
    3. Dukkha – Pain, suffering, disease and disharmony.
    4. Khandas – (Skandhas – Sanskrit): The five aggregates which make up the self, as we know
    it.
    5. Bodhisattva – A person who has generated spontaneous bodhichitta but who has not yet
    become a Buddha; delaying their parinirvana in order to help mankind.
    6. Mahayana – “Great vehicle” (to salvation). The name given to the more progressive strands
    of Buddhism.
    7. Theravada – “Way of the Elders”, the name given to the only surviving school of
    conservative Buddhism.
    8. Arhat – ‘Foe Destroyer’. A person who has destroyed all delusions (the foe) through train-
    ing on the spiritual path. They will never again be reborn in samsara.

    Other useful terms:

    1. Aggregates – A whole formed by combining several elements. A person of the desire realm
    or form realm has five aggregates: form, feeling, discrimination, compositional factors and
    consciousness.
    2. Ahimsa - Non-injury to living things; the doctrine of non-violence.
    3. Akanishta – A Pure Land where Bodhisattvas attain enlightenment.
    4. Bhikkhu – A Buddhist monk.
    5. Bhikkhuni – A Buddhist nun.
    6. Bodhichitta – Sanskrit term for ‘mind of enlightenment’.
    7. Brahmavihara – The four sublime states: metta, karuna, mudita and upekkha.
    8. Buddha – A being who has completely abandoned all delusions and their imprints. In
    general, ‘Buddha’ means ‘Awakened One’.
    9. Budhahood – Gaining the highest level of enlightenment where one gains omniscient
    wisdom and whose function is to bestow mental peace on all living beings.
    10. Dhammapada – A collection of sayings of the Buddha.
    11. Eightfold Path – a summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from
    Samsara.
    12. Enlightenment – Liberation and true cessation of the cycle of Samsara.
    13. Karma – (Kamma – Pali): “Action”. Actions that one makes throughout their life will
    determine their future.
    14. Karuna – Compassion, one of the four Brahmavihara.
    15. Lakshana – The collective term for the Three Marks of Existence.
    16. Lama – Tibetan translation of ‘guru’ meaning spiritual teacher.
    17. Magga – Path to the cessation of suffering – the middle path of the fourth noble truth.

    © WJEC CBAC LTD 2016


    Component 3 – Short Course – Key Terms (Buddhism)

    Learners should be able to explain and apply these terms in relation to the
    themes:

    18. Meditation – techniques that encourage and develop concentration, clarity, emotional
    positivity, and a calm seeing of the true nature of things.
    19. Metta – loving-kindness, one of the four brahmavihara.
    20. Milindapanha – The ‘Questions of Milinda’ – the record of dialogue between the Buddhist
    Monk Nagasena and the Greek King Milinda.
    21. Mudita – Sympathetic joy, one of the four Brahmavihara.
    22. Nirvana – enlightenment, total egolessness.
    23. Pancha Sila – The Five Moral Precepts basic to most schools of Buddhism.
    24. Paramitas – The six perfections practiced by Bodhisattvas. They are wisdom, patience,
    generosity, meditative awareness, effort and precepts.
    25. Parinirvana – Nirvana-after-death; takes place upon the death of the body of someone who
    reached nirvana during their lifetime.
    26. Pratityasamutpada – ‘dependant origination’, states that all things arise because of other
    things: cause and effect. A pragmatic teaching applied to dukkha.
    27. Rebirth – Being reborn as a result of circumstances that happened before.
    28. Renunciation – (Nekkhamma) – giving up the world and leading a holy life with a freedom
    from lust, craving and desire.
    29. Samsara – The continual cycle of birth, death and rebirth.
    30. Sangha – Translated as ‘community’ and referring to the Buddhist community of monks,
    nuns, and novices.
    31. Siddhartha Gautama – The ‘Buddha’, ‘Awakened One’, Siddhartha is a Sanskrit term which
    means ‘one who achieves his goal’.
    32. Sunyata – Emptiness, a major doctrine of Mahayana Buddhism that all things are empty or
    permanent essence.
    33. Tathagatagarbha – the Mahayana doctrine that states all sentient beings have the potential
    to reach Buddhahood.
    34. Upekkha – equanimity, one of the four Brahmavihara.

    Visit http://kadampa.org/reference/glossary-of-buddhist-terms for a more comprehensive


    glossary of terms relating to Buddhism.

    © WJEC CBAC LTD 2016

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