Beliefs and Values Unit
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- Muhammad
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Messenger of God
Born in Mecca, Saudi Arabia (570 CE) - Ying-Yang
- it is a balance between harmony. (Yang Light/day, Yin darkness)
- Mosque
- Islamic Temple
- Sunni and Shi'ite
- Two groups that argues after Muhammad's death for Mecca
- Shahada, Salat, Zakat, Sawm, Hajj
- The Five Pillars of Islam
- Shahada
- testimony of faith
- Koran
- The Islamic holy book, has sayings from allah to Muhammad
- Ramadan
- Period where all the Islams fast from sunrise to sunset
- Hadj
- The pilgrimage all muslims are expected to make to Mecca At least once in their lives
- Islam
- In Arabic means submission to God
- How many people are Islam?
- approcimately 1/5 of the world's population
- Shari' ah
- a set of laws whichset out perimeters for human conduct.
- Ka' bah
- Most sacred shrine of Islam, originally built by Abraham in the center square in Mecca
- Muezzin
- The person who calls Muslims to prayer five times a day
- Minaret
- The Islamic Prayer Tower used to call the faithful to prayer
- Sawm
- Ramadan
- Zakat
- Gifts of Money to poor people and orphans
- Salat
- Prayer five times a day
- tHE hADITH
- mUHAMMAD'S tEACHINGS
- The Sharia
- Islamic Lawas combining Qur'an and Sunnah
- Acoording to Shinto how was the world created
- The world was created by chaos by the gods
- Torii
- Gateway to the spiritual world
- Ema
- Description of a wish, put inside temples
- Amaterasu
- The godess of the sun
- What does the Japanese flag represent?
- It represents respect to the godess of the sun
- Where can a Torii be found?
- Torii's can be placed anywhere, where people feel that there is great spiritual strength.
- Omikuji
- Fortune telling paper strips; found in shrines and temples
- Shimenawa
- rope made from straw made with zig-zag paper. Marks the boundary to something special. Often found on Torii gates.
- Yokozuna
- The highest ranked sumo wrestlers; during ritual ceremonies.
- What are shrines often made of?
- Cyprus (Own shrine)
- The Kojiki
- The record of Ancient Matters
- The Nihon Shoki
- Japanese chronicles
- What is the book for the followers of Shinto called?
- There is no book for the followers and how behave
- P'u
- Simple, unamusing attitude. 'uncarved block'
- Golden Rule (Taoism)
- Virtue is kind. [Be kind unto those who are kind, be kind to those who are unkind]
- The Tao
- "the way"
- Lao Tzu
- Creator of the Tao te Ching which is a sacred text to taoists
- Caste System
- This is how people were categorized in Hinduism and this was their social status
- Filial Piety
- Respecting your elders
- Japanese Flag
- This has a sun in the middle which represents the sun god Amaterasu
- Zen
- Japanese Buddhism that came form Korea 1000 years after it started in India
- Nandi the Cow
- This was the cow of Vishnu and Shiva which makes cows in Hinduism sacred
- Vishnu
- The creator of things in the world, and one of the two gods below the main god Brahma
- Shiva
- The destroyer of things in the world
- Heavenly Mandate
- The emperors duty to represent the people of his country
- Samsara
- The reincarnation cycle that is in both Hinduism and Buddhism
- Moksha
- The point at which you leave the reincarnation cycle. (In Hinduism for 1000 years) (In Buddhism you can then reach nirvana which is the god like level of life)
- Dharma
- Your duty in life for who you are and what you should do
- Kami
- It is a god like figure that anyone in shinto can become
- Imperial Examinations
- The exams scholars took to recieve a good job in the government in confucianism
- Geometric Shapes in Islam
- They feel that they should not put in living pictures
- Te
- Being yourself
- Chi
- The idea that vital energy can be used and increased by eating and doing certain things
- Wu Wei
- Allowing the Tao to take you on the path of least resistence
- Li
- Good mannered, worshipping
- ren
- charity, kindness, love
- In confucianism what comes first in a decision between family and the public
- family is always more important to confucists
- What is Buddha's real name before he became an ascetic?
- Siddhartha Gautama
- Asectism
- going out into forest looking for nirvana or enlightenment
- Asectism in Taoism
- To achiveve immortality
- The Eight Fold Path
- Right concentration, right thought, right effort, right action, right speech, right livelihood, right thought, right awareness
- The Four Noble Truths
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1. Life is unsatisfactory and full of suffering
2. Suffering is caused by people's greed and craving for things.
3. If people overcam their delfish desires and dtopped craving then dukkha would dissapear.
4. Nirodha can be achieved by following the Middle Way laid down in the eight fold path - Nirodha
- The Third Truth