Solve these clues to fill the grid.
- Restored to new life and vigor
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- A ___ between factions in the same country
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- The Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that a person may be reborn successively into one of five classes
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- A member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas (plural)
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- To destroy or damage seriously, as of someone's reputation
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- The Chinese ___ that established the first centralized imperial government and built much
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- Belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India (plural)
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- Ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
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- Imperial ___ that ruled China and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy
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- Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis
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- After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
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- The beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation
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- Force that pulls objects toward the Earth
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- The religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal
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- A Buddhist and Hindu and especially Jainist doctrine holding that all forms of life are sacred
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- Philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life
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