SE Asia Belief System

What is a religious group?

• The way a group of people live. Includes the way they dress, where they live, what they eat, and their religion

• A group of people who share common characteristics such as language, physical appearance, customs, and traditions; the cultural ideas and beliefs have been a part of their community for generations.

• A group of people who share a belief system in a God or gods, with a specific set of rituals and literature

• The holy book of Buddhism

What is an ethnic group?

• A group of people who share a belief system in a God or gods, with a specific set of rituals and literature

• The way a group of people live. Includes the way they dress, where they live, what they eat, and their religion

• Ethnic religion in Japan that believes in natural spirits called kami

• A group of people who share common characteristics such as language, physical appearance, customs, and traditions; the cultural ideas and beliefs have been a part of their community for generations.

What does culture mean?

• The way a group of people live. Includes the way they dress, where they live, what they eat, and their religion

• A group of people who share common characteristics such as language, physical appearance, customs, and traditions; the cultural ideas and beliefs have been a part of their community for generations.

• A group of people who share a belief system in a God or gods, with a specific set of rituals and literature

• Philosophy in China that developed an intricate system of ethics

What is Buddhism?

• Ethnic religion in Japan that believes in natural spirits called kami

• Major religion in Southeast Asia that believes in reincarnation, karma, and nirvana. Founded by Siddhartha Gautama

• Major religion in India that is polytheistic, and believes in reincarnation and karma, and the idea that everyone as a soul called atman.

• Philosophy in China that developed an intricate system of ethics

What is Shintoism?

• Ethnic religion in Japan that believes in natural spirits called kami

• Major religion in Southeast Asia that believes in reincarnation, karma, and nirvana. Founded by Siddhartha Gautama

• Major religion in India that is polytheistic, and believes in reincarnation and karma, and the idea that everyone as a soul called atman.

• Philosophy in China that developed an intricate system of ethics

What is Hinduism?

• Ethnic religion in Japan that believes in natural spirits called kami

• Major religion in Southeast Asia that believes in reincarnation, karma, and nirvana. Founded by Siddhartha Gautama

• Major religion in India that is polytheistic, and believes in reincarnation and karma, and the idea that everyone as a soul called atman.

• Philosophy in China that developed an intricate system of ethics

What is Confucianism?

• Ethnic religion in Japan that believes in natural spirits called kami

• Major religion in Southeast Asia that believes in reincarnation, karma, and nirvana. Founded by Siddhartha Gautama

• Major religion in India that is polytheistic, and believes in reincarnation and karma, and the idea that everyone as a soul called atman.

• Philosophy in China that developed an intricate system of ethics

What is reincarnation?

• The idea that when a person dies that their spirit will be reborn

• The idea that when someone does something good or bad it will come back to them. 

• Hindu social and class system. Someone born in one caste can not rise to a different caste.

• Belief that everything in nature has a spirit or god: may be ancestors that died and now become part of nature.

What is karma?

• The idea that when a person dies that their spirit will be reborn

• Hindu social and class system. Someone born in one caste can not rise to a different caste.

• The idea that when someone does something good or bad it will come back to them.

• Belief that everything in nature has a spirit or god: may be ancestors that died and now become part of nature. 

What is Moksha?

• The holy book of Buddhism

• The goal of Hindus; to achieve peace and freedom from the cycle of reincarnation

• Hindu social and class system. Someone born in one caste can not rise to a different caste. 

• The ultimate state of enlightenment, happiness, and peace in Buddhism