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Religion and philosophy — 宗教と哲学

Sect and believer, scripture, discipline, enlightenment; philosophy, ethics, truth, existence. Read each word aloud with its reading, then write it once on the line — in kana if you cannot yet write the kanji.

しゅうは noun

宗派 sect, denomination

しんじゃ noun

信者 believer, follower

きょうてん noun

経典 scripture, sutra

せっぽう noun

説法 sermon, preaching

しゅぎょう noun

修行 ascetic practice, training

さとり noun

悟り enlightenment, realisation

かいりつ noun

戒律 religious precepts

ふきょう noun

布教 missionary work

てつがく noun

哲学 philosophy

しそうか noun

思想家 thinker

りんり noun

倫理 ethics

どうとく noun

道徳 morals, morality

ぜんあく noun

善悪 good and evil

しんり noun

真理 truth

そんざい noun

存在 existence, being

かんねん noun

観念 idea, notion; resignation

しんこうしん noun

信仰心 religious faith

れい noun

霊 spirit, soul

せい noun

聖 holy, sacred

きがん noun

祈願 prayer, supplication

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Religion and philosophy — from memory

Cover page 1. Write the Japanese for each meaning (kana is fine), then write what each word in part 2 means. Page 1 is the answer key.

1 Write the Japanese

missionary work

noun

believer, follower

noun

sect, denomination

noun

holy, sacred

noun

philosophy

noun

ethics

noun

thinker

noun

truth

noun

good and evil

noun

ascetic practice, training

noun

2 What does it mean?

霊

信仰心

悟り

祈願

説法

経典

戒律

道徳

存在

観念

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