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Buddhist: Beliefs and Teachings

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  • Q1
    What is the Buddha's name?
    Siddhartha Gautama
    Buddha
    Sidharrtha Gotama
    Sidharth Gotama
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  • Q2
    What was Siddhartha's birth Mother called?
    Queen Maya
    Queen Suddhodana
    Queen of Nepal
    Queen Kaya
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  • Q3
    What did King Suddhodana want to protect his son from?
    Darkness
    Hardship/Suffering
    Cruelty
    Death
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  • Q4
    Which of these is the 2nd of the four sights?
    Sick man
    Dead Man
    Holy Man
    Old Man
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  • Q5
    What does Renunciation mean?
    Letting go
    Separating yourself
    Moving on
    Abandoning
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  • Q6
    What is an ascetic?
    Someone who starves themselves.
    Someone who is religious.
    Someone who lives a simple and strict lifestyle with few pleasures or possessions.
    Someone who is naked.
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  • Q7
    What key teaching is the following quote discussing? "Realising the practice of such austerities was not the path to enlightenment he went about gathering alms in villages and townships"?
    The five skandhas
    The five precepts
    The middle way (8FP)
    The four noble truths
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  • Q8
    Which of these is NOT one of Mara's distractions?
    His three daughters
    Himself
    His Army
    An army of snakes
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  • Q9
    Who did Siddhartha call to witness his enlightenment?
    Green Tara
    The Land
    The Moon
    Mother Earth
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  • Q10
    What does Dharma (Dhamma) mean?
    His Followers
    The Buddha
    The teachings
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  • Q11
    Why is the Dharma important?
    The is the story of the Buddha's life
    It gives meaning to life
    Monks recite it
    It is a rule book
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  • Q12
    What is dependent arising?
    Everything is impermanent
    Everything depends on supporting conditions and is a constant process of change
    Everything has no self
    Everything stays the same
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  • Q13
    What does the wheel of life represent?
    Everything
    Life and Death
    Samsara
    Nibana
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  • Q14
    Which story is linked with the concept of Anicca?
    Kisa Gotami (The Story of the Mustard seed)
    The Mad King
    Three on a log
    The Life of the Buddha
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  • Q15
    Which of these is not one of the five aggregates (Skandhas)?
    Consciousness
    Emotion
    Form
    Sensation
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  • Q16
    These words are parts of which teachings? - Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha and Magga
    The five Precepts
    The three marks of existence
    The Eightfold Path
    The Four Noble Truths
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  • Q17
    'The way of the elders' is the name for which school of Buddhism?
    Theravada
    Mahayana
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  • Q18
    Pure Land, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism- are all part of which school of Buddhism?
    Mahayana
    Theravada
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  • Q19
    What does the word Arhat mean?
    buddha
    Enlightened Person
    Perfected person
    Saint
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  • Q20
    Who do Pure Land Buddhists worship?
    Amitabha Buddha
    Siddhartha Gautama
    Green Tara
    Buddhists don't worship!
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