A tool for learning about world religions

Word Scramble 3: World Religions

Based on material about Buddhism and Native American religions in chapters 6 and 8 of Neighboring Faiths by Winfried Corduan

Challenge: Even if you do not have the book, can you unscramble these words and make sure they are matched up with the right clues?

1. uLtraoSuts ________________________	A sacred scripture which came out of Mahayana Buddhism
2. mlaaiDaaL ________________________	The spiritual leader of the largest Buddhist group in Tibet
3. raMtan ________________________	A powerful word that is chanted over and over in Buddhism
4. rlbFtTheuNrusoo ________________________	The basic ideas regarding suffering and desire which are at the heart of Buddhism
5. Maudr ________________________	The position of the hands of a Buddha statue or painting
6. isteVqiusno ________________________	The seeking of visions in Native American religion
7. ithcdsgonaGn ________________________	Five-day-long events by Native Americans in the late 1800s that brought visions, healing, supernatural powers, and contact with the dead.
8. arniavN ________________________	A non-state that literally means "blown out."
9. leEtinnhtgmen ________________________	The ultimate goal of Buddhism during which a person enters a purely spiritual state and comes to realize his place of non-self in fundamental nothingness
10. ahhatiruumdaGtdaSa ________________________	An Indian prince who abandoned a life of luxury and royal pomp to eventually become the Buddha
11. vtadahBosti ________________________	A Buddha-the-making
12. ePbohtEidahgltoflN ________________________	A rigorous life of concentrated effort that includes such things as the right view, the right intention, the right speech, the right action, and the right livelihood.
13. ramaSsa ________________________	The cycle of reincarnations in Hinduism and Buddhism
14. glovNabseae ________________________	An idea from nineteenth-century romanticism that people in a culture untouched by Western civilization lived in a state of purity and innocence, in harmony with the world of spirit and nature