Unit 3 day 3

Question 1

4 Brahma Viharas

Answer 1

Loving kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity

Question 2

3 Jewels and refuge vow

Answer 2

1. Buddha (enlightened teacher) 2. Dharma (Enlightened teaching) 3. Sangha ( Enlightened community) The Buddhist path begins when one takes refuge in the Three Jewels

Question 3

3 Turnings of the wheel and Theravada ( Hinayana), Mahayana and Vajrayana

Answer 3

The first Jewel, Hinayana: The historical Buddha. Mahayana: Enlightened potential in all. Vajrayana: One’s own enlightened mind.
The second Jewel, Hinayana: Teachings of the historical Buddha. Mahayana: An enlightened wisdom potentially found everywhere. Vajrayana: One’s own enlightened speech.
The third Jewel, Hinayana: Monks and nuns. Mahayana: Monostatic AND lay community. Vajrayana: One’s own enlightened body.

Question 4

Bodhisattva

Answer 4

A person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.

Question 5

Tathagatha Garbha/ Buddha nature

Answer 5

It means the womb of the one thus-gone