Definitions

  =__Vocab List__ =  ===Please add the terms and their definitions you have researched from your readings so that all students can determine the explicit and implicit meaning of the articles .===


 * **Term ** || **Definition** ||
 * Transient || Populations not necessarilly related or part of a cultural group that move readily for schools/work etc ||
 *  Mahayana ||  One of two existing schools of Buddhism ( founded in India ) ||
 *  Taoism ||  A variety of religious concepts influencing East Asia ||
 *  Doctrine ||  A particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government. //E.g. Catholic doctrines// ||
 *  Brahmin || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> //(Hinduism)// A person usually from an old, respected family, because of wealth, weilds considerable social, economic and political power. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Nirvana || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Diaspora || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> The scattering of the Jews to countries outside of Palestine after the Babyloanian captivity. ||
 * Perennial || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Lasting or active throughout the year or longer. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Upanishads || //(Hinduism)// Any of a group of philosophical treaties contributing to the theology of ancient hinduism. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Uphanishad || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Hindu scriptures that constitute the core teachings of vendata. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Aryan || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">A tribe of indo- europeans at 1700 BC ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">Transient || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console',Monaco,monospace;">passing with time or being brief and short lived. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Socrates || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Greek philosopher whose indefatigable search for ethical knowledge challenged conventional mores ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Diaspora || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> refers to the movement of any population sharing common ethnic identity  ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">Yahweh || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif';">the God of the Israelites, his name being revealed to Moses as four Hebrew consonants (YHWH) called the Tetragrammaton ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Confucianism || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> the system of ethics, education and statesmanship. ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Vedic Mythology || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Vedic mythology occupies a very important position in the study of the history or religions. Its oldest source presents to us an earlier stage in the evolution of beliefs based on the personification and worship of natural phenomena, than any other literary monument of the world. The earliest stage of Vedic mythology is not so primitive as was at one time supposed, but it is sufficiently primitive to enable us to see clearly enough the process of personification by which natural phenomena developed into gods, a process not apparent in other literatures. The mythology, no less than the language, is still transparent enough in many cases to show the connexion both of the god and his name with a physical basis. ||
 * <span style="color: rgb(144, 0, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(3, 2, 2);">Dravidian || <span style="color: rgb(3, 3, 3);"><span style="color: rgb(3, 2, 2);"><span style="color: rgb(13, 12, 14);">A member of one of the large aboriginal races of India - they were pushed south by the Caucasians and are now mixed with them.   ||
 * Bodhisattva || A person who has attained enlightenment but postpones Nirvana to help others reach it ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Neoplatonism || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> A philosophical system founded on Platonic doctrine founded on Platonism with elements of Oriental mysticism with later influences on Christianity. It holds that all existence consists of emanations from the One with whom the soul may be reunited ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Marxism || <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> Marxism is a term used to refer to a hugely diverse set of social, economic, historical, philosophical and cultural theories, only some of them derived from the thought of German philosopher Karl Marx. Broadly speaking, marxist theories focus upon the inequalities of wealth which the capitalist economic system brings, and point to the effects of this exploitative system upon people and cultures. The Marxist analysis of this situation and its products is ultimately designed to bring about its replacement with a fairer, socialist system. ||