Buddhism

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 4. A commonly repeated word or phrase (6)
  2. 7. One of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through your own (9)
  3. 8. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (7)
  4. 9. An ancient Prakrit language that is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada Buddhism (4)
  5. 11. The endless cycle of birth and suffering and death and rebirth (7)
  6. 12. The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation (13)
  7. 14. A repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone (5)
  8. 15. Basic principles of the cosmos (6)
  9. 16. The effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation (5)

Down

  1. 1. The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes (13)
  2. 2. Any of various geometric designs symbolizing the universe (7)
  3. 3. A rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature or a group of aphoristic doctrinal summaries prepared (5)
  4. 5. Buddhist worthy of nirvana who postpones it to help others (11)
  5. 6. Contemplation of spiritual matters (10)
  6. 10. Native to eastern Asia (5)
  7. 13. One of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation (8)