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 |
-- Howard Culbertson,