Buddist Belifs

Question 1

What are the 5 stages of the Buddhas life

Answer 1

Birth
Life and luxury
4 sights
Ascetic life
Enlightenment

Question 2

Buddhas birth

Answer 2

Born without causing mother pain
He got up and walked straight after he was born
Roared like a lion

Question 3

Buddhas life of luxury

Answer 3

Know as siddhartha
Got anything he wanted
Hidden from outside life
Looked after by women

Question 4

The four sights

Answer 4

Sick man
Dead man
Old man
Holy man

Question 5

What do the 4 sights show

Answer 5

Everyone suffers from illness
Youth does not last forever
Life is not everlasting

Question 6

Buddha ascetic life

Answer 6

Abandoned luxury to focus on enlightenment
Pali Canon teaches:
-He ate little food
-met with many teachers
He found neither extreme luxury or extreme poverty will help you, he then found the middle way

Question 7

Buddhas enlightenment

Answer 7

Happened in India
Did meditation to overcome temptation
He gained knowledge of rebirth
Bodhi tree

Question 8

Influence of Buddha birth on Buddhists today

Answer 8

People go on pilgrimage to birth sight
Celebrate of festivals eg Wesak

Question 9

Influence of the 4 sights on Buddhists today

Answer 9

Help to reduce dukkha
People engage in Buddhist practices

Question 10

Influence of life of luxury on Buddhists today

Answer 10

Encourages Buddhists to not become very wealthy
People live a life guided by the middle way instead

Question 11

Influence of ascetic life on Buddhists today

Answer 11

Encourages a lifestyle around the middle way and 4 noble truths

Question 12

Influence of Buddha enlightenment on Buddhists today

Answer 12

People go on pilgrimage to site of enlightenment
Celebrate it at festivals eg Wesak

Question 13

What are the 3 marks of existence

Answer 13

Dukkha (suffering)
Anicca (impermanence)
Anatta (no fixed self)

Question 14

What does dukkha encourage Buddhist to do

Answer 14

Develop resilience
Respond to suffering
Develop compassion and wisdom

Question 15

What does the Buddha teach about suffering

Answer 15

“SUFFERING IS BIRTH, AGING, ILLNESS, DEATH”

Question 16

What does anicca influence Buddhists to do and why is it important

Answer 16

Doing puja practices - using a flower that will eventually die
Shows that everything is always changing

Question 17

What does Anatta encourage Buddhists to do

Answer 17

Believe in rebirth
Perform death rituals
“ALL THINGS ARE NOT-SELF”

Question 18

What analogy is used to explain Anatta

Answer 18

The chariot analogy
A chariot is something made of lots of little things together like a person

Question 19

What is dependant arising

Answer 19

All things exist because of other things

Question 20

Dependant arising ps influence on Buddhists

Answer 20

Will treat others with Karuna (compassion) and love (metta)
Will con side impacts of environmental damage

Question 21

What is Dhamma

Answer 21

Full collection of Buddhas teachings

Question 22

What are the 3 refugees/jewels

Answer 22

Buddha - the one teaching
Dhamma - the teachings
Sangha - those who follow the teachings

Question 23

What do the 3 jewels do

Answer 23

Give life meaning, purpose and satisfaction

Question 24

What happened after the Buddha died

Answer 24

500 enlightened monks formed a council to agree on the teachings of Buddha

Question 25

What are the 3 different Buddhist schools

Answer 25

Theravada Mahayana Vajrayana

Question 26

Theravada views on Buddha

Answer 26

A historical figure Can no longer meet him

Question 27

Mahayana view on Buddha

Answer 27

He is still active and in the world today

Question 28

Theravada important scriptures

Answer 28

Pali canon

Question 29

Mahayana important scriptures

Answer 29

Lotus sutra

Question 30

Personality’s of Theravada

Answer 30

Five aggregates

Question 31

Personality’s on Mahayana

Answer 31

Buddha-nature Buddhahood

Question 32

Human destiny of Theravada

Answer 32

Arhat

Question 33

Human destiny of Mahayana

Answer 33

Bodhisattva

Question 34

What are the 5 aggravates

Answer 34

Ways the interact with each other -consciousness -form -sensation -mental formations -perception

Question 35

What is sunyata

Answer 35

Emptiness

Question 36

What is Buddha nature

Answer 36

Everyone has the essence of Buddha in them

Question 37

What is buddhahood

Answer 37

When somebody becomes a Buddha by reaching enlightenment

Question 38

What is arhat

Answer 38

A perfect person or worthy one

Question 39

What is a bodhisattva

Answer 39

Somebody who has become enlightened and choose to help others by staying in the cycle of samsara “HOWEVER INNUMERABLE SENTIENT BEING ARE, I VOW TO SAVE THEM”

Question 40

Theravada view on life after death

Answer 40

Not reborn Nirvana

Question 41

Mahayana view on life after death

Answer 41

Reborn Earthly bodhisattvas remain in region between earth and nirvana

Question 42

What are the 6 perfections

Answer 42

All needed to become a bodhisattva -generosity -patience -meditation -morality -energy -wisdom

Question 43

What is Pur Lamd Buddhists

Answer 43

Collection of Mahayana schools

Question 44

What faith is Pure land based on

Answer 44

Amitabha buddha, a king who gave up his throne and achieved enlightenment

Question 45

What are the 5 practices of Pure Land Buddhists

Answer 45

Reciting scriptures Worshiping amitabha Mediation Making praise and offerings Chanting name of amitabha

Question 46

What are the 4 noble truths

Answer 46

Magga - the way to ending suffering is following the eightfold path Nirodha - there is a way to end suffering Samudaya - there is a cause to suffering Dukkha - there is suffering

Question 47

The Dali Lamas teaching about the 4 noble truths

Answer 47

“THE FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS ARE THE VERY FOUNDATION OF BUDDHIST TEACHING”

Question 48

What are the three poisons

Answer 48

They are the origin of suffering: Ignorance Greed Anger

Question 49

What is the end of suffering

Answer 49

Enlightenment / nirvana

Question 50

What does the Pali Cannon say about the three poisons

Answer 50

“GREED IS A ROOT OF WHAT IS UNSKILLFUL”

Question 52

What is the eightfold path

Answer 52

The middle way 8 practices to overcome suffering

Question 53

What are the 8 practices of the eightfold path

Answer 53

VSILAMC Right concentration Right mindfulness Right effort Right livelihood Right understanding Right intention Right speech Right action