Chinese Buddhism
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- Siddhartha Gautama
- Founder of Buddhism, The Buddha (6th c BC?)
- Samsara
- reincarnation, multiple lives
- Karma
- record of good deeds
- Nirvana
- enlightenment, extinction of the bad
- sangha
- church that buddha organized his disciples into
- darma
- discipline of buddhist monks, the duties towards good kharma
- paranirvana
- death when cycle of lives has ended, beyond human comprehension, enlighenment
- Theravada (Hinayana)
- Buddhist sect in which monks seek personal enlightenment, beggers, not everyone can achieve enlightenment, but can work towards it by helping monks
- Mahayana
- Primary sect of buddhism that reaches china just as it is starting up; iconographic, many buddhas (Amitaba, buddha of paradise--pure land; future Buddha = Maitreya; etc.), all can achieve nirvana, four sects
- Bodhisattva
- mahayana being that altruistically refrains from nirvana to help others along the way to enlightenment
- Han Mingdi
- 1st century emperor that dreams about buddhism and sends Xuanzang to india to bring it back
- Sutra
- cannonical writings/records of buddha's sermons
- Xiongnu
- northern tribe; declares that it is okay for chinese converts to enter monasteries
- Kumarajiva
- 300s ad translator that brings buddhism to chinese people
- Lotus Sutra
- primary text of the Mayahana sects, focuses onthe final revelations that all people can achieve nirvana