Buddhist: Beliefs and Teachings
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- Q1What is the Buddha's name?Siddhartha GautamaBuddhaSidharrtha GotamaSidharth Gotama30sEditDelete
- Q2What was Siddhartha's birth Mother called?Queen MayaQueen SuddhodanaQueen of NepalQueen Kaya30sEditDelete
- Q3What did King Suddhodana want to protect his son from?DarknessHardship/SufferingCrueltyDeath30sEditDelete
- Q4Which of these is the 2nd of the four sights?Sick manDead ManHoly ManOld Man30sEditDelete
- Q5What does Renunciation mean?Letting goSeparating yourselfMoving onAbandoning30sEditDelete
- Q6What 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.30sEditDelete
- Q7What 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 skandhasThe five preceptsThe middle way (8FP)The four noble truths30sEditDelete
- Q8Which of these is NOT one of Mara's distractions?His three daughtersHimselfHis ArmyAn army of snakes30sEditDelete
- Q9Who did Siddhartha call to witness his enlightenment?Green TaraThe LandThe MoonMother Earth30sEditDelete
- Q10What does Dharma (Dhamma) mean?His FollowersThe BuddhaThe teachings30sEditDelete
- Q11Why is the Dharma important?The is the story of the Buddha's lifeIt gives meaning to lifeMonks recite itIt is a rule book30sEditDelete
- Q12What is dependent arising?Everything is impermanentEverything depends on supporting conditions and is a constant process of changeEverything has no selfEverything stays the same30sEditDelete
- Q13What does the wheel of life represent?EverythingLife and DeathSamsaraNibana30sEditDelete
- Q14Which story is linked with the concept of Anicca?Kisa Gotami (The Story of the Mustard seed)The Mad KingThree on a logThe Life of the Buddha30sEditDelete
- Q15Which of these is not one of the five aggregates (Skandhas)?ConsciousnessEmotionFormSensation30sEditDelete
- Q16These words are parts of which teachings? - Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha and MaggaThe five PreceptsThe three marks of existenceThe Eightfold PathThe Four Noble Truths30sEditDelete
- Q17'The way of the elders' is the name for which school of Buddhism?TheravadaMahayana30sEditDelete
- Q18Pure Land, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism- are all part of which school of Buddhism?MahayanaTheravada30sEditDelete
- Q19What does the word Arhat mean?buddhaEnlightened PersonPerfected personSaint30sEditDelete
- Q20Who do Pure Land Buddhists worship?Amitabha BuddhaSiddhartha GautamaGreen TaraBuddhists don't worship!30sEditDelete