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31 Cards in this Set
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Buddha lived from _______ BC and ____ BC
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563 BC and 483 BC |
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What was the name of Buddhas son? |
Rahula |
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What 4 things did Buddha come accross? |
- Old man - Child -Sick man - Corpse |
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What was the Great Renunciation? |
Buddha gives up his possessions |
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What is the name of Buddhas spritiual quest for enlightenment? |
The middle way |
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Buddhas earliest followers were all _______? |
men |
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Buddhism began to penetrate _________ in the ____ century CE |
1. China 2. First |
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True or false: Buddhism faced little persecution in China |
false |
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__________ halted Buddhist growth in central Asia |
Muslims |
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Buddhism penetrated the West in the _____ ________ century |
late 19th |
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In the First Buddhist expansion it was dominated by the rules of the __________ |
Sangha |
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What does Mahayana Buddhism mean ? |
greater vehicle |
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Control over oneself in order to achieve harmony with the cosmos is called the ________ |
Siddha |
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Which period of Buddhism was characterized by death and decline? (also state what date) |
4 period - 1000 CE |
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Buddhist scriptures are divided in the ______ and the __________ |
Sutras Vinaya |
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Buddha is an incarceration of the principle |
scriptures by other Buddhas are authentic |
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Earliest Buddhist scriptures is the ________ or _______ |
Pali Canon or Tripitaka |
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In Buddhism, ______ has no rule in our fate |
God |
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For most Buddhists there is neither a ________ nor, a _____ |
self person |
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The 3 jewels are the _________, the ________ and the __________ |
Buddha Dharma Sangha |
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The endless wheel of existence is called__________
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Samsara |
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Enlightenment is described as being like what? |
The blowing out of a candle |
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During meditations Buddhist cover ________, ____________, __________ |
Mindfulness concentration wisdom |
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Who served Buddhist influence in scholarship in the 20th century? |
Edward conze |
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What was the name of the book written by Edward Conze that focused on the moral questions raised by war? |
Memoirs of a Modern Gnostic |
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Conzes father forbade him from studying ______________ |
philosophy |
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Conze eventually came to view ____________ as a surrogate for religion |
Marxism |
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Who played a key role in Conze's conversation? |
D.T. Suzuki |
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What shaped Conzes view of war? |
His fathers war diaries |
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Who did Conze criticize as a agnostic claiming to be Buddhist? |
Christmas Humphries |
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What threw Conzes career in Buddhism off course? |
Nazism |
