PHILOSOPHY 33: ADDITIONAL REVIEW ITEMS FOR YOUR MIDTERM

You should be able to identify each of the following and explain why they are important:

Arjuna and Krishna
Ashoka
Bergson, Freud, Marx
Bodhidharma
Brahman, Vishnu, Shiva
Confucius, Mencius, Xun Zi (Hsun Tzu)
Dalai Lama
Ganesha
Gandhi
Hui Neng
Lao Zi, Zhuang Zi (Chuang Tzu)
Nagarjuna
Nagasena
Shankara
Siddhartha Gautama
Thomas Merton
Wittgenstein

You should be able to explain the meaning of each of these terms:

ahimsa
atman and brahman
karma yoga, bhakti yoga
bodhisattva
brahmin, khshatriya, vaisya, shudra, dalit (harijan)
dharma, artha, kama,  moksha
dao (tao)
guru
jiriki, tariki 
karma
mantra
mandala
maya
purusha and prakriti
ri, yi, and li
wu wei

You should be able to point out key differences in the following traditions:

Advaita Vedanta and Samkhya/Yoga
Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism
Rinzai and Soto Zen

Again, be sure to review the study questions in both the lectures and the separate review pages for each tradition.