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Buddhist: Beliefs and Teachings

Quiz by Lauren Partridge

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  • Q1
    What is the Buddha's name?
    Siddhartha Gautama
    Buddha
    Sidharrtha Gotama
    Sidharth Gotama
    30s
  • Q2
    What was Siddhartha's birth Mother called?
    Queen Maya
    Queen Suddhodana
    Queen of Nepal
    Queen Kaya
    30s
  • Q3
    What did King Suddhodana want to protect his son from?
    Darkness
    Hardship/Suffering
    Cruelty
    Death
    30s
  • Q4
    Which of these is the 2nd of the four sights?
    Sick man
    Dead Man
    Holy Man
    Old Man
    30s
  • Q5
    What does Renunciation mean?
    Letting go
    Separating yourself
    Moving on
    Abandoning
    30s
  • 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.
    30s
  • 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
    30s
  • Q8
    Which of these is NOT one of Mara's distractions?
    His three daughters
    Himself
    His Army
    An army of snakes
    30s
  • Q9
    Who did Siddhartha call to witness his enlightenment?
    Green Tara
    The Land
    The Moon
    Mother Earth
    30s
  • Q10
    What does Dharma (Dhamma) mean?
    His Followers
    The Buddha
    The teachings
    30s
  • 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
    30s
  • 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
    30s
  • Q13
    What does the wheel of life represent?
    Everything
    Life and Death
    Samsara
    Nibana
    30s
  • 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
    30s
  • Q15
    Which of these is not one of the five aggregates (Skandhas)?
    Consciousness
    Emotion
    Form
    Sensation
    30s

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