TERMS AND GUIDE QUESTIONS
FOR FILM
List of chapters for discussion in order
of viewing Disc One, Part One:
Disc One, Part Two: 7. Three Levels of Suffering Disc One, Part One: 12.
The Four
Noble Truths, A Sequence for Practice 13.
Buddha’s
Insight into the Nature of Suffering 14.
The Twelve
Links Disc Two, Part
Four:
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Dependent
origination (pratītyasamutpāda): the twelve-link causal
process in a person’s unenlightened existence. The links are: 1. Ignorance, 2. Mental patterns,
3. Consciousness, 4. Body and Mind, 5. The Six Senses, 6. Sensual contact, 7.
Feeling, 8. Desire, 9. Clinging, 10. Existence,
11. Rebirth, 12. Aging and Death. Karma:
good and bad actions that facilitate the process of cause and effect in one’s
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Dukkha:
suffering. Dharma: “protection” through the
integration of the Buddha’s teachings in everyday life. Nargarjuna (ca. 2nd-3rd
cent.) South Asian native, a leading Buddhist thinker and founder of the Madhyamika
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#1.
What are the three levels of suffering in Buddhist thought? What is the significance of suffering?
#2.
Why are the Four Noble Truths taught in the order, in which they are presented?
#3. If everything is emptiness, then in what
state do we exist?