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Concepts

The vocabulary the traditions think in, dharma, karma, mokṣa and friends.

Concepts

Dharma

The word that will not translate, that which holds things together; duty, law, order, rightness, and one's own particular place in all of it.
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Karma

Action and its consequence, the doctrine that nothing is wasted and nothing is exempt, working across lifetimes with impersonal precision.
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Mokṣa

Liberation, the fourth and highest aim of life; not a place reached but a case of mistaken identity corrected.