Buddhism

Question 1

Buddhism is the ___ largest religion

Answer 1

4th

Question 2

What is the Buddhism the first for?

Answer 2

Missionary purpose

Question 3

Who founded Buddhism?

Answer 3

Sidartha Gautama

Question 4

What are the 2 primary paths of Buddhism?

Answer 4

Mahayana and Theravada

Question 5

Where did Buddhism start?

Answer 5

India

Question 6

Great vehicle

Answer 6

Mayahana

Question 7

Teaching of the elders

Answer 7

Theravada

Question 8

What is the problem in Buddhism?

Answer 8

Suffering

Question 9

Suffering

Answer 9

Dukkha

Question 10

What is the goal of Buddhism?

Answer 10

Nirvana

Question 11

Extinguish suffering and escape Samsara

Answer 11

Nirvana

Question 12

When was Siddhartha Gautama born? Born as a ____

Answer 12

Lumbini 563 BCE, prince

Question 13

At what age did Siddhartha leave the palace?

Answer 13

29

Question 14

What did Siddhartha find outside of the palace?

Answer 14

Sickness, death, old age, ascetic

Question 15

What did Siddhartha learn when he was with the 5 ascetics?

Answer 15

Breath control fasting, unmoving meditation

Question 16

When and how did Siddhartha reach enlightenment?

Answer 16

age 35, meditated under the ficus tree

Question 17

What did Siddhartha teach the 5 ascetics for the first time when he was enlightened?

Answer 17

4 Noble truths

Question 18

Enlightened beings, shared Buddhism

Answer 18

Arhat

Question 19

When and how did Siddhartha die?

Answer 19

483 BCE, suspected food poisoning

Question 20

Buddha’s teachings, the truth, one of the 3 jewels

Answer 20

Dharma

Question 21

What are the 4 noble truths?

Answer 21

1. All life entails suffering
2. Suffering is caused by desire
3. to eliminate suffering, eliminate desire
4. to eliminate desire, follow 8 fold path

Question 22

What is in the 8 fold path?

Answer 22

Right speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness, concentration, understanding, thought

Question 23

ethical conduct/morality

Answer 23

1-3

Question 24

mental disposition, meditation

Answer 24

4-6

Question 25

wisdom/ prajna

Answer 25

7-8

Question 26

What are the 3 marks of existence?

Answer 26

impermanence, suffering, anatman/anatta

Question 27

Everything is always changing

Answer 27

impermanence

Question 28

Dukkha is inescapable

Answer 28

Dukkha

Question 29

No soul

Answer 29

Anatta/Anatman

Question 30

Physical body, senses, feelings, perceptions of good/neutral sensory outputs, consciousness, mental dispositions

Answer 30

Skandhas

Question 31

After death nirvana for enlightened beings

Answer 31

Parinirvana

Question 32

Buddha's sermons

Answer 32

Sutras

Question 33

Commentaries on Buddha's teachings

Answer 33

Shastras

Question 34

What are the texts for Theravada school?

Answer 34

Pali Canon

Question 35

Early manuscripts were written on palm leaves and kept in 3 baskets based on the subject matter?

Answer 35

Tipitaka

Question 36

Monastic discipline

Answer 36

Vanaya-pitaka

Question 37

discourses

Answer 37

Sutta-pitaka

Question 38

Further teachings

Answer 38

Abhidhamma-pitaka

Question 39

What are the main texts for the Mahayana school?

Answer 39

None; recognize poli canon and sutras

Question 40

Can lead to enlightenment and opportunity to achieve the 8 fold path; can also lead to right views and intentions

Answer 40

Meditation

Question 41

Who is meditation essential for?

Answer 41

Sangha and Laity

Question 42

Common people

Answer 42

Laity

Question 43

element that is necessary for enlightenment

Answer 43

Prajna

Question 44

Most common meditation in Theravada school; purpose is to encourage detachment from desire, increase insight, eliminates ignorance

Answer 44

Mindfullness meditation (Vipassana)

Question 45

Sitting motionless, not thinking; purpose is to clear the mind

Answer 45

Soto zen

Question 46

Master asks students a question, students respond genuinely, spontaneously, unrehearsed; purpose is to create an opportunity for awakening unrealized knowlege

Answer 46

Rin Zai zen

Question 47

Eureka moments

Answer 47

Satori

Question 48

What places are considered pilgrimages?

Answer 48

Lumbini Nepal, Bodh Gaya India, Sarnath India, Susingara India

Question 49

Where Buddha was born

Answer 49

Lumbini, Nepal

Question 50

Site of Buddha's enlightenment

Answer 50

Bodh Gaya, India

Question 51

Buddha's 1st sermon

Answer 51

Sarnath, India

Question 52

Buddha reaches parinirvana

Answer 52

Kusingara, India

Question 53

School that believes the only way to get nirvana is to follow the middle path; emphasizes personal self

Answer 53

Theravada

Question 54

School that believes when you reach enlightenment you can stay in paramitas and help others achieve nirvana; ; emphasizes global enlightenment

Answer 54

Mahayana

Question 55

What are the 2 sub-schools of Mahayana?

Answer 55

Pureland, Ch'an and zen

Question 56

Who founded pureland buddhism?

Answer 56

Amita Buddha

Question 57

Focused on laity, believes in pureland paradise in wester parmitas by showing great devotion to Amita Buddha

Answer 57

Pureland Buddhism

Question 58

Believe in individual enlightenment, rejects Mahayana belief in Boddhisattavas, Theravada view of the cosmos

Answer 58

Ch'an and Zen

Question 59

where did Ch'an and Zen Buddhism originate?

Answer 59

China

Question 60

Thunderbolt vehicle, no unified texts, students work closely with teacher and Boddhisattava; emphasize to reach nirvana now

Answer 60

Vajrayana

Question 61

Sounds

Answer 61

Mantra

Question 62

Vision

Answer 62

Mandala

Question 63

Movement

Answer 63

Mudras

Question 64

Not taught or shared with the public

Answer 64

Esoteric

Question 65

Serves as the occasion to review, correct, and certify the proper standards of monastery discipline in Theravada Schools

Answer 65

Uposatha

Question 66

What are the 3 jewels?

Answer 66

Buddha, Dharma, Sangha

Question 67

the Buddhist community of monks, nuns, novices, and laity.

Answer 67

Sangha