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AQA A LEVEL RELIGIOUS STUDIES > 003 Self, death and Afterlife - Buddhism > Flashcards

003 Self, death and Afterlife - Buddhism Flashcards

1
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What is the Buddhist perspective on rebirth according to Harvey?

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“it is not pleasant”

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Who is reborn?

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All unenlightened beings

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Does the process of life and rebirth have a purpose?

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No as it was not designed by anyone

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4
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What is a sensible purpose of life for Buddhists?

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A better rebirth

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What do most buddhists aim for?

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A better rebirth

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What is an arhat?

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A being who has reached enlightenment and is no longer reborn

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Finish this quote by the Buddha: “I am the teacher …

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supreme”

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What is a bodhisattva

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someone who sees their own enlightenment as being bound up with the enlightenment of all beings

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What is the Bodhisattva vow?

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“However innumerable sentient beings there are: I vow to save them”

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10
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Who can be an arhat according to TBs?

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A monastic

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What did Bhikku Bhodi argue were the buddha’s teaching on the ultimate goal?

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we should guide others to liberation

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12
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What is the parable of the jewel in the robe?

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we all possess the buddha nature but are unaware

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13
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What did Snelling describe Bodhisattvas as?

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spiritual heros

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What did Bhikkhu Bodhi argue about the bodhisattva goal?

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Mahayana elitism is the reason they believe in a better goal

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15
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What is an atman?

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A soul

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16
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What did the Buddha argue about the atman?

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He argued there is nothing that can be found in experience which points to the existence of a soul

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17
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What is anatta?

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No-self

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18
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What are the 5 aggregates (DEFINITION)

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The 5 elements that someone is made up of

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19
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What does skhandas mean?

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heaps

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20
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What happens if the 5 skhandas are subtracted from a person?

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nothing remains

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21
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What are the 5 skhandas?

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  • forms
  • sensations
  • perceptions
  • impulses
  • consciousness
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What is the Form skhanda?

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The physical elements which make up a body

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What is the sensations skhanda?

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feeling of senses contacting the outside world

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What is the Perceptions skhanda?

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What we become aware of through sensations

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What is the Impulses skhanda?

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from our internal will

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What is the consciousnes skhanda?

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basic awareness of being alive through thoughts and feelings

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27
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What analogy is used by Nagasena to describe anatta

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chariot

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28
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What is the chariot analogy?

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Chariot is used to refer to a collection of parts that form it

29
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What is the importance of rebirth?

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Everything transforms at rebirth

30
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What is the Buddhist term for dependent origination?

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Paticcassamuppada

31
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How can life be described as a chain?

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One event causes the next event and so on

32
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what are the 3 marks of existence?

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  • anicca
  • dukkha
  • anatta
33
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What does Samsara refer to?

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The perpetual cycle of birth, death and rebirth which binds all sentient beings

34
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Is samsara a place?

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no - it referes to a process

35
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What is the wandering through realms driven by?

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Volitional actions of individuals

36
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What is the role of the arhat in crossing samsara?

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an individual who has reached the shore of liberation

37
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What is the role of the bodhisattva in crossing samsara?

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bodhisattvas are like ferrymen who vow to guide all sentient beings across

38
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How does Samsara link to anicca?

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all conditions are ever changing which highligts the impermenant nature of all beings in samsara

39
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What is the bhavachakra?

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The wheel of becoming

40
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What is depicted in the inermost ring of the wheel of life?

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The 3 poisons; greed, hatred, delusion

41
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What is depicted in the second inermost ring of the wheel of life?

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bodhisattvas guided higher beings to the upper realms and lower beings decending to the lower realms

42
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What is depicted in the third ring of the wheel of life?

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The 6 realms

43
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What are the three higher realms?

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  • Devas - gods
  • Ashras - demi, gods
  • human
44
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What are the three lower realms?

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  • Ghosts
  • animals
  • hell
45
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What is depicted in the outermost ring of the wheel of life?

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12 links of dependent origination which shows how suffering arises

46
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What does the Buddha on the wheel of life depict?

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The Buddha is outside the wheel showing how he is liberated from suffering

47
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Who holds the wheel of life?

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Yama - lord of death

48
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Define karma

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action

49
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Finish the Buddha’s quote: “It is karma that differentiates beings …

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into low and high states”

50
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What things did the Buddha say were karmically determined (4)

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  • family
  • social status
  • personality
  • looks
51
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What is karma not?

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A system of reward and punishment determined by a god

52
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What is the buddhist term for skilful actions?

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kusala

53
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What is the buddhist term for unskilful actions?

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akusala

54
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What must a good moral choice be guided by?

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Intention

55
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Finish the quote: ““it is choice, O monks …

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that I call karma.”

56
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How does karma influence Buddhists? Hint: actions

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Helps Buddhists understand their own agency to shape their destiny by cultivating kusala (skilful or wholesome) actions

57
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How does karma influence Buddhists? Hint: 3 posions

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Helps to blow out the three poisons of craving, greed and ignorance

58
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Why is rebirth in the human realm better?

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Humans have a higher chance of attianing nirvana

59
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What are the three ways in which samsara can be described?

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  • literally
  • metaphorically
  • psychologically
60
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What is the literal interpretation of samsara?

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the realms of samsara are literal places which beings can be reborn into

61
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What is the metaphorical interpretation of samsara?

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the realms are not literal but are symbolic of emotional and mental states

62
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What is the psychological state of samsara?

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realms are not literal but reflect the mental states of humans

63
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Who is the Avalokiteshvara

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the bodhisattva of compassion

64
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where is the avalokiteshavara believed to be?

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at end of his bodhisattva career so has unlimited punya to share

65
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Who is the deemed to be the current avalokiteshvara?

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The 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso

66
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What is the Avalokiteshavara also called?

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Bodhisattva of the world’s sounds

67
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Why is Avalokiteshvara called the Bodhisattva of the World’s Sounds?

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because he perceives the sounds of suffering from living beings and delivers them from their trials when they call upon his name.

68
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How might Buddhists treat the Dalai Lama

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They might worship him in order to gain punya

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