Question 1

What is the Pali term for suffering or dissatisfaction?

Accepted Answer

dukkha

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anatta

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samsara

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anicca

Question 2

What is the Pali term for impermanence?

Accepted Answer

Anicca

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Anatta

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Nibbana

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Dukkha

Question 3

What is Tanha?

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craving

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pain

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enlightenment

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suffering

Question 4

What Pali term means the denial of a permanent, personal self?

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Anatta

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Samsara

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Dukkha

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Anicca

Question 5

The view that everything is dependent on something else

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Dependent origination

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Bardo Thol

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Mahayana Buddhism

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Three marks of existence

Question 6

Which one of the three poisons does the pig represent?

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ignorance

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attachment

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hatred

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greed

Question 7

Which one of the Three Poisons does the cockerel represent?

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craving

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hatred

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old age

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ignorance

Question 8

Which one of the Three Poisons does the snake represent?

Accepted Answer

hatred

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death

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craving

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attachment

Question 9

What realm is pictured here?

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God Realm

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Animal realm

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Hungry ghost realm

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Hell realm

Question 10

What realm is pictured here?

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Human realm

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Hell realm

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God realm

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Animal realm

Question 11

What realm is pictured here?

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Animal realm

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Hell realm

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Hungry ghost realm

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Human realm

Question 12

What realm is pictured here?

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hungry ghosts realm

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Hell realm

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Animal realm

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Human realm

Question 13

What realm is pictured here?

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hell realm

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hungry ghost realm

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human realm

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animal realm

Question 14

Where did Buddha give 1st sermon?

Accepted Answer

Deer Park in Sarnath

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Delhi

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Varanasi

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Bodh Gaya

Question 15

What is the First Noble Truth

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The truth of dukkha

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The truth of the cause of dukkha

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The path to the cessation of dukkha

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The truth of the cessation of dukkha

Question 16

What is the second noble truth?

Accepted Answer

The truth of the cause of dukkha

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The truth of dukkha

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The path to end dukkha

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The truth of the cessation of dukkha

Question 17

What is the Third Noble Truth?

Accepted Answer

The truth of the cessation of dukkha

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The truth of dukkha

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The truth of the cause of dukkha

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The path to end dukkha

Question 18

What is the fourth noble truth?

Accepted Answer

The path to end dukkha

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The truth of the cessation of dukkha

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The truth of dukkha

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The truth of the cause of dukkha

Question 19

PRAJNA

Accepted Answer

Until Thoughts Stop Acting Like Excited Monkeys: Confusion!

Question 20

What is the Monastic Sangha?

Accepted Answer

Buddhist monks and nuns

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A Buddhist place of pilgrimage

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A Buddhist Sutta

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A type of Buddhist meditation

Question 21

What is the Lay Sangha?

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Buddhist community that are not monks or nuns

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The place of Buddha's birth

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The place where Buddha died

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Buddhist monks and nuns

Question 22

What were the Four Sights?

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sick man, old man, dead man, holy man

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old man, tired man, stressed man, ugly man

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busy man, sick man, old man, dead man

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sad man, happy man, sick man, dead man

Question 23

What did Siddhartha try and do at first to solve the problem of dukkha?

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Six Years Asceticism

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Gave money to the poor

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Taught the dhamma

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Became enlightened

Question 24

Who tried to distract Siddhartha so that eh wouldn't become enlightened?

Accepted Answer

Maara

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Myra

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Masala

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Mulla

Question 25

What is the name of the Buddhist sutta that cover the Buddha's first teaching?

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Setting in Motion the wheel of Dhamma

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Spreading the enlightenment

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Buddha's first teaching

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The beginnings of Buddhism

Question 26

What is the name of the more traditional type of Buddhism that relies on the Pali canon

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Theravada

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Mahayana

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Zen

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Tibetan

Question 27

The less traditional type of Buddhism that means literally the 'Great Vehicle'

Accepted Answer

Mahayana

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Zen

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Theravada

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Pure Land

Question 28

What is the Bodhisattva vow?

Accepted Answer

not to become enlightened until everyone else is

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to be reborn into the Pure Land

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to achieve enlightenment in this lifetime

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to abstain from sexual misconduct

Question 29

Type of Buddhism founded by Bodhidharma in China 6th Century CE

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Zen

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Mahayana

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Tibetan

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Theravada

Question 30

Type of meditation praticed by Zen Buddhists.

Accepted Answer

zazen

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vipassana

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pure land chanting

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metta

Question 31

What is puja?

Accepted Answer

Buddhist worship

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Buddhist meditation

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Buddhist festival

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Buddhist temple

Question 32

What is a mantra?

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a word or sound that is chanted to help meditation

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An enlightened being

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A Buddhist temple

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Buddhist prayer beads

Question 33

- chanting spreads Buddhas protective force

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Mantras (3)

Question 34

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Accepted Answer

- Unites Sangha

Question 35

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- Best known mantra = 'Om Mani Padme Hum' which gains blessings from Avalokitesvara

Question 36

- often found as a focus for Puja

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Rupa (4)

Question 37

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Accepted Answer

- focus for Dhyana

Question 38

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Accepted Answer

- vary according to culture

Question 39

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Accepted Answer

- illustrate things needed for enlightenment

Question 40

- stopping maddened elephant

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Fearlessness Mudra

Question 41

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Accepted Answer

- being fearless in following Magga

Question 42

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Accepted Answer

- taking refuge in Tiratana

Question 43

- need to follow Buddha

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Dhyana under Bodhi tree Mudra

Question 44

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Accepted Answer

- open palms = openess to receiving Dhamma

Question 45

- thumb touches one of four fingers

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Teaching - Mudra

Question 46

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Accepted Answer

- Four Noble Truths - Focus on 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th

Question 47

- develops calmness & mindfulness

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Dhyana Purposes (3)

Question 48

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Accepted Answer

- makes person become better by removing 3 Poisons

Question 49

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- helps to release person from Tanha

Question 50

- carried out by anyone

Accepted Answer

Dhyana - Samatha (3)

Question 51

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- focus on every breath

Question 52

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- stops distraction

Question 53

- needs to be taught

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Dhyana - Vipassana (6)

Question 54

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- v. common in Zen

Question 55

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- Aids mental development

Question 56

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- Focused concentration on seeking enlightenment

Question 57

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- Lotus position

Question 58

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Accepted Answer

- eyes half-open

Question 59

May/June

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When is Wesak (Buddha day)?

Question 60

birth, enlightenment & parinibbana of Buddha

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What does Wesak celebrate?

Question 61

light = symbol of enlightenment

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Why do Buddhists carry lanterns and candles?

Question 62

- attention paid to Bhikkus/unis

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Lay people visit the vihara (4)

Question 63

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Accepted Answer

- chant Tipitaka

Question 64

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Accepted Answer

- lay people observe 5 additional Pansil

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