| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| LAMAS | Teachers of karma |
| SANSKRIT | Source of the word "karma" |
| SIN | Judeo-Christian version of bad karma |
| samsara | the indefinitely repeated cycles of birth, misery, and death caused by karma |
| karmic | (Sanskrit) relating to karma, the moral quality of actions regarded as determining the nature of a future existence |
| nirvana | the final beatitude that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness |
