Buddhism Test

Front 1

Six realms are located in in this world, populated by beings who are born there as a result of their karma. Together these six constitute the Desire Realm so called because the beings who populate it are driven by desire. The first and highest is the realm of the _____.

Back 1

gods

Front 2

Lopez says that "writing a book entitled The Story of Buddhism is a distinctly modern and, until recently, _____ thing to do

Back 2

non-Buddhist

Front 3

The three jewels in Buddhism are:

Back 3

Buddha, Dharma and Sangha

Front 4

Lopez says that the universe is the product of ____

Back 4

karma

Front 5

According to Lopez what is the one reference point for all of the different traditions labeled as Buddhist?

Back 5

The Buddha

Front 6

Lopez says _____ means "wandering" in Sanskrit

Back 6

samsara

Front 7

Everything, except nirvana/nibbana is _______, that is, impermanent

Back 7

anicca

Front 8

_____ is the cause of suffering because it is a desire to hold on to things that constantly change and are unsatisfying

Back 8

tanha

Front 9

______ means “extinction, quenching

Back 9

nirvana/nibbana

Front 10

______ means “worthy” i.e. worth of great respect

Back 10

arhat

Front 11

Even happiness is understood to be a form of ______ because it does not last

Back 11

dukkha

Front 12

The Buddhist concept of _______ mean no-self and is very different from the Hindu concept of atman or the Jain concept of Jiva

Back 12

anatta

Front 13

The state of ______ is described as “both is and is not” and “neither is nor is not.”

Back 13

nirvana/nibbana

Front 14

Before Vessantara gives the children away, Maddi has a dream of

Back 14

a man in robes assaulting her.

Front 15

What are Vessantara's first words when he is born?

Back 15

Mommy, I want to give something away

Front 16

When Vessantara gives the children away there is

Back 16

an earthquake

Front 17

Maddi is detained in the forest while Vessantara is giving the children away by

Back 17

All of the above

Front 18

Miao Shan is:

Back 18

All of the above

Front 19

Phusati is

Back 19

All of the above

Front 20

Who is the narrator of the Vessantara Jataka?

Back 20

Gotama Buddha

Front 21

Mahayana seems to have begun with the production of ______

Back 21

texts

Front 22

In order to become a bodhisattva, one must develop _____ literally , "the aspiration to enlightenment"

Back 22

bodhicitta

Front 23

By the time that sutras like the Lotus Sutra were composed three different paths were accepted: the sravaka or listener path, the pratyekabuddha or solitary enlightened one path, and the _____.

Back 23

bodhisattva path

Front 24

_______, the Buddha of infinite light, promised that anyone who hears his name, wishes to be reborn in his Pure Land and dedicates their merit to that end will be reborn there

Back 24

Amitabha

Front 25

The story of the Lotus Sutra where the father offers the sons three different carts to tempt them out of a burning building is a good metaphor for the Mahayana concept of _____.

Back 25

upaya, skillful means

Front 26

The role of the monk is to maintain a certain purity, largely by keeping an elaborate set of vows. Such purity renders the monks as a suitable _____.

Back 26

Field of merit

Front 27

Although most monks are required to be celibate, monks in one country are allowed to marry. Where?

Back 27

Japan

Front 28

Bodhisattva vows differ from monastic vows in that is it a violation for those who have taken Bodhisattva vows not to be willing to violate the regular monastic vows out of compassion. The story that Lopez uses to illustrate this point results in the Buddha _____

Back 28

Committing murder

Front 29

In 1902 the king of Thailand passed the Sangha act that made it illegal for local abbots to _____.

Back 29

Ordain monks

Front 30

What practice does Lopez says has largely disappeared from Sri Lanka but it present in Thailand (and Burma)?

Back 30

Daily alms rounds

Front 31

One of the thirteen practices of great asceticism mentioned by Lopez was dwelling in a charnel ground. What is a charnel ground?

Back 31

A place wheve dead bodies are cremated

Front 32

In order to become a novice a boy had to be _____.

Back 32

Old enough to scare away a crow.

Front 33

Calm meditation cannot lead to nirvana. While it can temporarily suspend attachment, hatred and delusion it cannot end them. Only ________ (insight) combined with calm can do this.

Back 33

Vipassana

Front 34

The most common calm meditation is the mindfulness of breathing _____.

Back 34

Anapana sati

Front 35

Insight seeks to experientially recognize the three marks of all things:

Back 35

Impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and being empty of self

Front 36

In a state of _____ concentration, the mind becomes free from all distractions and wavering, in a unified state of inner stillness.

Back 36

Samadhi

Front 37

One popular meditation is _____ lovingkindness meditation which when developed expands the mind into an immeasurable field of benevolent concern.

Back 37

Metta

Front 38

How much merit did Emperor Wu earn?

Back 38

None

Front 39

Does a dog have buddha nature?

Back 39

Wu

Front 40

Choose

Back 40

Enlightenment originally has no tree. The mirror also has no stand. Buddha nature is always pure and clear Where is there room for dust?

Front 41

You _____, I bow.

Back 41

Spit

Front 42

If people already have Buddha nature why do they have to exert themselves to reach enlightenment?

Back 42

They don't

Front 43

The head of the Geluk school is _____.

Back 43

Dalai Lama

Front 44

In Tantra practice one uses elements of _____ to produce visualizations of a transformed universe that reflects the essence of nirvana.

Back 44

samsara

Front 45

Tibetans debated whether to follow the Chinese sudden path or the Indian gradual path in Buddhism. Which did they choose?

Back 45

Indian

Front 46

According to Thai tradition the monk Phra Malai took eight olotuses as an offering to stupa in the Heaven of the Thirth-Three. What relic did the stupa contain?

Back 46

Topknot relic

Front 47

Devotion to Amitabha is the essence of _____ practice, which centers on teh Buddha invocation.This is a reptition of a phrase that translates "Hail to Amitabha Buddha"

Back 47

Pure Land

Front 48

Chanting is central to much of Buddhist practice. "its use derives from early Buddhism when... a learned person was _____ rather than 'well read'

Back 48

much heard

Front 49

The Sutra of thw Spell that Brought Deliverance to the Flaming Mouth Hungry Ghost is the basis for the Ghost Festival in China. "The structure of this ritual was that of a _____"

Back 49

feast

Front 50

The Holy Path of dhamma can be described as "1) pariyatti, the study of the teachings 2) ____ the practice of the way 3) pattiveda or realization of the states

Back 50

patipatti

Front 51

A stupia is another name for a pagoda. It contains _____

Back 51

relics

Front 52

Burmese Buddhist understand the Shwedagon pagoda to contain ____ brought from India by two merchants named Tapussa and Bhallika

Back 52

hairs of the Buddha

Front 53

______ was an emperor who reigned from 268-239 BCE and spread Buddhism to most of the Indian sub-continent and beyond

Back 53

Asoka

Front 54

Asoka sent his son and daughter as Buddhist missionaries to _____

Back 54

Sri Lanka