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- - - - Dharma means the belief that one should live according to his or her own moral duties appropriate to one's station in life.
    - - Each person must live several lives, learning along the way, before achieving a final supreme goal of Absolute called Moksha. It is reached only when the individual has overcome all evils and all earthly desires.
    - - Samsara means reincarnation. Hindus believe that life is a ceaseless cycle of events with no beginning or end. Death and birth are both just phases of the cycle.
    - - the rebirth of a soul in a new body.
    - - Karma is the belief that everything a person does has a consequence. Both good and bad deeds have an effect on a person's happiness or misery.
  - - - the Buddha describes the Noble Eightfold Path as the middle way of moderation, between the extremes of sensual indulgence and self-mortification: Monks, these two extremes ought not to be practiced by one who has gone forth from the household life.
    - - The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East and the West
    - - Meditation
        
        Mindfulness of body, sensations, mind and mental phenomena. The Four Immeasurables – including compassion karuna and loving-kindness Metta.
      - Monk
        
        In buddhism, a monk is religious leader typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
      - Enlightenment
        
        In Buddhism, enlightenment is when a Buddhist finds the truth about life and stops being reborn because he has reach Nibana and once you get to Nibana you are not born again. Buddhists believe a person can become enlightened by following the Middle Way.
      - a religion, originated in India by Buddha (Gautama) and later spreading to China, Burma, Japan, Tibet, and parts of southeast Asia, holding that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to halt the endless sequence of births and deaths.
    - - The Buddha is the same person as Siddhartha Gautama. He became The Buddha by finding the path to Enlightenment.
    - - The Noble Eightfold Path is an early summary of the path of Buddhist practices leading to liberation from samsara, the painful cycle of rebirth.
    - - Siddhartha Gautama is the person who founded Buddhism. He became known as The Buddha by finding the path to Enlightenment and he went from pain and suffering to rebirth and towards the path of Enlightenment. #
    - - The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha's teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.
    - - In Buddhism, the term parinirvana is commonly used to refer to nirvana-after-death, which occurs upon the death of the body of someone who has attained nirvana during his or her lifetime.
    - - It is the ultimate spiritual goal in Buddhism and marks the soteriological release from rebirths in samsāra.
    - - The lethal war with Kalinga transformed the vengeful Emperor Ashoka to a stable and peaceful emperor and he became a patron of Buddhism. ... Nevertheless, his patronage led to the expansion of Buddhism in the Mauryan empire and other kingdoms during his rule, and worldwide from about 250 BCE.
    - - A mudra is a symbolic or ritual gesture in Hinduism and Buddhism. While some mudras involve the entire body, most are performed with the hands and fingers.