Buddhist Practices 1️⃣✅

Question 1

What is puja?

Answer 1

Any act that involves worship

Question 2

What is reciting mantras?

Answer 2

Repeating a mantra (a short phrase) over and over again to show devotion to the Buddha and further their understanding of his teachings

Question 3

What are mala beads?

Answer 3

A chain of beads used to count recitations

Question 4

What are the 2 types of meditation?

Answer 4

• Samatha meditation
• Vipassina meditation

Question 5

What is Samatha meditation?

Answer 5

Meditation that involves concentration and tranquility - foucusing on one thing & to clear your mind of everything else - commonly focusing on breathing. It is said that Samatha meditation is used as a ‘practise’ for vipassina

Question 6

What is vipassina meditation?

Answer 6

Meditation that is said to be more advanced. It is commonly called insight meditation and involves developing the understanding of the nature of reality

Question 7

What is the purpose of vipassina meditation?

Answer 7

To help Buddhists understand how all things are characterised by the three marks of existence and to develop greater wisdom and awareness of the natural world

Question 8

What is the purpose of samatha meditation?

Answer 8

Many people believe that alongside foucsing on one thing to develop a calm mind, another purpose of samatha meditaion is preperation for vipassina meditaiton

Question 9

What is the purpose of chanting?

Answer 9

To learn and remeber texts in order to pass them on to others

Question 10

What is zazen meditation?

Answer 10

A type of meditation that requires awarness of the present moment

Question 11

What is visualisation?

Answer 11

Imagining or ‘seeing’ something in ones mind.

Question 12

What is deity visualisation?

Answer 12

Trying to invision a being e.g. heavenly/ celestial Bodhisatvas or Amitabha Buddha to acess their qualities

Question 13

What 2 things can be used to help visualisation?

Answer 13

• Thangka - a detailed painting of the being you are trying to visualise
• Mandala - a pattern made from sand or drawn to symbolise impermanence

Question 14

What is a Thangka?

Answer 14

a detailed painting of the being you are trying to visualise

Question 15

What is a Mandala?

Answer 15

a pattern made from sand or drawn to symbolise impermanence

Question 16

What are the 4 sublime states?

Answer 16

• love
• compassion
• sympathetic joy
• equanimity

Question 17

What are the 6 perfections?

Answer 17

• Generosity
• Morality
• Patience
• Energy
• Meditation
• Wisdom

Question 18

What is wesak?

Answer 18

Wesak is a very important Buddhist festival and celebrates the buddhas birth, death and elightenment

Question 19

Give 3 ways in which wesak is celebrated?

Answer 19

• Visit a temple
• Make offerings to the Buddha
• Meditate

Question 20

What do you do in Theravada Funerals?

Answer 20

• transfer merit to loved ones in chance of a better rebirth
• little money is spent/ if any its donated to charity
• Shrine of deceased and Buddha
• Burial or Cremation

Question 21

What do you do in Tibetan Funerals?

Answer 21

• Sky burial - body is left for vultures to eat
• more common now to cremate the body
• Ceremonies involve prayers

Question 22

What do you do in Pure Land Funerals?

Answer 22

• Coffin may be placed facing the pure land in hopes of rebirth there
• Chant Amitabha Buddhas name when carrying coffin

Question 23

How long do Buddhists have to bury dead people?

Answer 23

49 days

Question 24

What does karuna mean?

Answer 24

Compassion

Question 25

What does metta mean?

Answer 25

Loving kindness

Question 26

What are the 4 sublime states?

Answer 26

1. Loving kindess 2. Compassion 3. Sympathetic joy 4. Equanimity

Question 27

What are 6 perfections?

Answer 27

1. Generosity 2. Morality 3. Patience 4. Energy 5. Meditation 6. Wisdom

Question 28

What are all the 5 moral precepts?

Answer 28

1. Abstian from taking life 2. Abstain from tsking what is not freely given 3. To abstain from sexual misconduct 4. To abstain from wrong speech 5. To abatain from intoxicants that cloud the mind

Question 29

What is parinivarna day?

Answer 29

Parinivarna day is the celebration of the buddha entering parinivarna (death and nivarna) and is celebrated in febuary

Question 30

What is the acient scripture that describes the buddhas last days?

Answer 30

Mahaparinivarna sutra

Question 31

What is a rupa?

Answer 31

Statue/ image of the Buddha

Question 32

What does sunyata mean?

Answer 32

emptiness

Question 33

What would a buddhist do on a retreat?

Answer 33

Take time away from normal lives to focus on buddhism - they could meditate, read over buddhist teachings (all in monastery/ gompa)

Question 34

What is a gompa?

Answer 34

tibetan momastery/ meditaion hall

Question 35

How is depended arising represented in buddhism?

Answer 35

Across the 12 nivarnas on the wheel of life.

Question 36

What are the 12 nirvanas?

Answer 36

Chain of caustation by which the cycle of birth, death and rebirth is created (samsara)

Question 37

What is nirvana?

Answer 37

A transcendent state in which there is neither suffering, desire, nor sense of self, and the subject is released from the effects of karma and the cycle of death and rebirth. It represents the final goal of Buddhism (enlightenment)

Question 38

What might a buddhist do to celebrate parinivarna?

Answer 38

Read/ study the mahaparinivarna sutra - a scripture describing the buddhas final days

Question 39

What is a Buddhist charity that shows karuna? (and what do they do)

Answer 39

Rokpa - runs schools in Nepal and tibet, helps families out of poverty through edcation

Question 40

What are the 3 segments of the 8 fold path?

Answer 40

Wisdom (view, intention) Morality (speech, action, livelihood) Meditation (effort, mindfulness, concentration)

Question 41

What are the sanscrit names for the 3 segments of the 8 fold path?

Answer 41

Wisdom - panna Morality - sila Meditation - samadhi

Question 42

What can Buddhists do to celebrate parinivarna day?

Answer 42

Read/ recite mahaparinivarna sutra and go on a retreat to Kushinagar in India, where they run workshops to help buddhists feel more connected to Siddhartha and understand his parinivarna

Question 43

What is the gompa that Buddhists could go to to celebrate Parinivarna day?

Answer 43

Kushinagar, in India

Question 44

What is a vihara?

Answer 44

A Buddhist monastery/ temple