Buddhism/jainism Quiz

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The story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama

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Siddhartha's father did his best to shield him from the vicissitudes of life, according to tradition, he built special towers supplied with all that the boy would need and kept him in them. Story of Siddharta talking to his charioteer – to be understood in more naturalistic terms – young man coming to term with what life is like – gradually dawning on him that it doesn’t last forever & he wants to find the meaning of life

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The four passing sights: definition etc.

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Despite his father's efforts, Siddhartha could not be protected from life's ills. Siddhartha became deeply disturbed by the realization that (a) all grow old, (b) all succumb to disease of one form or another, (c) all die and (d) some people seem at peace with themselves despite these things.

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The four passing sights: List them

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old age, disease, death, the holy man (monk)

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Yashodara

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Siddhartha's wife, princess Yashodara, his cousin. He married her at 16.

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Rahula

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Siddhartha's son whom he had with Yashodara at age 29

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What demonic figure tempted Siddhartha to abandon his quest during meditation?

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Mara

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Buddhists do not necessarily view Mara in literalistic terms. Mara may be symbolic of Siddhartha's own internal conflicts to return to a life of normalcy, to his wife and son, for example. Also Mara is symbolic of the temptation to remain satisfied with a "spiritual high" and not to press on to deeper levels of awareness.

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Note

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Buddha sat under the ______ - a peepul tree - determined not to budge until he found that for which he was searching.

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Bodhi tree

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As Siddhartha resisted Mara he came to the threshold of enlightenment, nirvana, and he realizes that there is a middle path between ______ and a life of seeking pleasure, ______. With this Siddhartha became the Buddha, also known as one who is _____.

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asceticism, hedonism, awake

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Buddha decided to come back from _____ and enlighten the world.

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nirvana

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The four noble truths that the Buddha preached are set out in the manner of a physician diagnosing a _____ and then offering the ____.

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disease, cure

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The four noble truths: List

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suffering (dukkha), the cause of suffering, the cessation of suffering, the noble eight-fold path

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The first of the noble truths says that Life is _____. The doctrine of suffering covers the entire gamut of ills, from minor physical pains to the deepest anxiety about existence. t is not a denial that we sometimes experience pleasure and happiness. Yet as we mature we realize that all happiness is precarious and transitory, inseparable from a melancholy penumbra of awareness, however dim,of the inevitability of old age, disease, and death.

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suffering

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The second noble truth says that their is a cause of suffering which is the ____ or _____ for what we _____ (3 words). The craving is traced to the five aggregates.

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craving, aching, do not have

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The third noble truth says that there is a _____, a stopping of suffering (_____). There are two forms of nirvana, residual (living being continues to exist in an earthly life) and nonresidual (the being is utterly extinguished). Nirvana can only be ____ rather than fully ____.

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cessation, nirvana, experienced, explained

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The fourth noble truth says that the way to the cessation of suffering is to follow the noble ______.

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eight-fold path

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The noble eight fold path includes what three groupings?

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wisdom (prajna), morality (sila), and contemplation (samadhi)

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The wisdom group includes right _____ and right _____.

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understanding, thought

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The morality group includes right ____, right ____, and right ____

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speech, action, livelihood

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The contemplation group includes right _____, right ____, and right ______

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effort, mindfulness, contemplation

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prajna

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wisdom

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sila

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morality

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samdhi

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contemplation

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being informed of buddhist teaching and testing it against experience

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right understanding

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self-examination of our motives, from the most obvious to the most subtle, so that we gradually excise all forms of self centered cravings for power, wealth or happiness

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right thought

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one is to watch what one says, to utter words that heal and build up people rather than to use words that cause harm and tear people down

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right speech

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one refrains from causing harm to others (including animals), to refrain from taking what does not belong to you, to refrain from misuse of the sense, to refrain from lying, and to refrain from self-intoxication through drugs and alcohol.

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right action

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one seeks ways of making a living that help rather than harm others. one is to avoid business in arms, in living beings, in meat, in intoxicants, and in poison.

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right livelihood

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generic effort towards non-attachment and being awake in each moment

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right effort

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the two sides of meditative practice and experience

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right mindfulness and concentration

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The three marks of existence:

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suffering, impermanence, no-self (anatman)

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The substantial self according to Buddhism is an ____.

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illusion

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Just as there is no permanent self, so all of existence is _____, in the sense that no substance endures forever.

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impermanence (2nd mark of existence)

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The doctrine of impermanence:

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1. what is, comes to be.
2. what comes to be, passes away.
3. what is, passes away

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dependent origination includes: list

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objectivity, necessity, invariability, conditionality

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The things that come to be and pass away do so not in a haphazard or random fashion but according to regular causal patterns.

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dependent-origination

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(dependent-origination) Causation is real whether or not we exist and whether or no we desire to exist. In other words, causation is something we discover, not something we create or that is merely in the mind.

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objectivity

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(dependent-origination)
No events are uncaused. IT is a necessary feature of events that they have causal antecedents.

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necessity

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(dependent-origination)
Causally related events occur in a regular pattern. For example, water that is heated to a sufficient temperature turns to steam. It never occurs that heated water turns to ice.

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invariability

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(dependent-origination)
The most important feather of causality. Every event is causally condition, but some events are such that their causal conditions do not uniquely determine the outcome.

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conditionality

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word for no self

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anatman

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The three Jewels of Buddhism

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the Buddha, the Dharma, and the Sangha

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the path to enlightenment

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the dharma

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the community of buddhists, usually in the sense of those helping others to follow the dharma; early buddhists recognized both monks and lay persons as its members

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the sangha

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the one that teaches the path to enlightenment and provides its paradigm example

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the Buddha

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five aggregates (skandhas): list

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body, sensation, perception, disposition, consciousness, emptiness (sunyata)

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The thing that gets reincarnated in Buddhism is not the jiva, but the bundle of five ______

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aggregates

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The Wheel of rebirth includes what six realms? and which are considered more fortunate?

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Humans, Gods, Titans - more fortunate
Ghosts, Hell, Animals

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Theravada Buddhism is known as the way of the _____ or also, _____, meaning the lesser vehicle.

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elders, Hinayana

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Buddhists who seek out their own enlightenment and expect others to do the same refers to which subdivision of Buddhism's beliefs?

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Theravada Buddhism

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Mahayana Buddhism is known as the greater _____.

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greater

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Buddhists who want a vessel large enough to include all sentient creatures, all who are in need of enlightenment refers to which subdivision of Buddhism

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Mahayana Buddhism

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In Theravada Buddhism, the Theravadan ideal is the ____, the holy person who works out his or her own salvation.

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arhant

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In Mahayana Buddhism, the Mahayana ideal is the _______, the being of wisdom who undergoes countless incarnations and delays final entry into nirvana out of compassion for all sentient creatures.

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bodhisattva

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King Asoka decreed that stone monoliths, now called "the edicts of Asoka" be set up all across the kingdom declaring the ______. This may be the first example of official declarations of ______.

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dharma, religious tolerance

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The oldest Buddhist scriptures are referred to as ________.

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The Three Baskets

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The Three Baskets include The Basket of ______, _______, _______

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Order, Instruction, Higher Teaching

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The Three Baskets are also referred to as the ______ since they are written in ______.

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Pali cannon, Pali

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A distinctive form of Buddhism that arose in China as a unique blend of Buddhism and Taoism..

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Zen or Ch'an

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a public document that sets a legal precedent

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koan

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Who brough Zen rom India to China? 1,000 years after the Buddha

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Bodhidharma

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Who was the person that tears the cat in half, was either completely senile or wise?

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Joshu

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sitting meditation

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zazen

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a brief session with the Roshi (master) who judges the student's grasp of koans

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sazen

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master who judges the student's grasph of koans

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roshi

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two schools that Zen splintered into that were the most durable

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Rinzai and Soto

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A school of Zen that includes zazen

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Soto Zen

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A schol of zen that emphasizes zazen, but includes sazen

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rinzai zen

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another word for enlightenment

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satori

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The successor to Hung-Hen that caused a split between northern and southern schools

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Hui Neng