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A chant used in meditation and other spiritual disciplines to draw the worshiper closer to the ultimate is called what? |
Mantra |
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A group of Buddhist practitioners or a community of adherence is called? |
sangha |
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A teacher of Zen Buddhism is known as? |
roshi |
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As Zen Buddhist school that believes enlightenment to be a gradual acquirement is known as? |
Soto or passive enlightenment |
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An enlightened person who decides to not pass immediately into nirvana, and instead chooses to dedicate his or her life to helping others obtain enlightenment, is called? |
bodhisattvas |
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Buddhism is not just a philosophy or a system of ethics, what is it? |
A way of enlightenment meant and spiritual practice |
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In Buddhism, Samsara is defined as? |
The cycle of birth and rebirth the -cycle; attachment delusion and pride. ( life, death, rebirth, delusion meant) |
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In Buddhism the term Nirvana means? |
Highest human potential, Breaking the cycle, Or enlightenment.-you can have it in this life too! Fullness of the father. To be blown out or extinguish the natural man |
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Riddles or unsolvable questions by rational thought are called? |
koans |
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The Buddha's middle way consists of what? |
The eight fold path, moderate, No extremes,-Middle path |
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The fact that nothing is permanent, or that everything is in a constant state of change is called? |
anicca-impertanince |
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The lotus flower is a symbol of what? |
Purity, no attachment, spiritual development in world not of creation but of divine worth |
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The six Paramitis are also known as? |
The six perfections |
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The term for know self or No independent identity in Buddhism is? |
anatman or anatta |
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What are the teachings of the Buddha, or the sacred texts called? |
Dharma sutras-Dharma means books, Sutras means sections |
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What are the two main schools of Buddhism? |
mahanya and theravada |
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What does Buddha mean? |
The awakened or enlightened one-free from delusion, full of wisdom and compassion |
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What does Zen mean? |
Values of meditation, or meditation deriving from the Japanese word |
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What is sutra? |
A collection of stories and teachings from the Buddha |
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what is an arhat? |
Ended the cycle. Nerve Anna. Not reborn, Reached the enlightenment |
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What is asceticism? |
Suffering for purification, beating oneself or starving oneself |
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What is the Buddhist term for suffering? |
dukkha |
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True or false? To a Buddhist emptiness means nothingness |
False-the accurate answer is fullness |
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What are the three poisons according to Buddhism? |
Ignorance, attachment, aversion sanskrit, trivisa, tibertan |
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what is satori |
sudden enlightenment or a flash of insight |
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True or false? The Buddha grew up hindu. |
True-this statement is accurate |
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What kind of tree was the Buddha sitting under when he was enlightened? |
The bodhi tree or bodhichitta |
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Which comes first, paranirvana or Nirvana? |
Nirvana |
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Which one of the following is not one of the three marks of existence? |
annica-impurtanance, anatta-anatman, dukka-suffering |
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What is the second Noble truth? |
samudaya (suffering) suffering caused by attachment |
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What are the four sites the Buddha saw before taking the journey to his enlightenment? |
An old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk |
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I Hindus Dharma is what? |
The path to become closer to God, by morals, in duty it is a way of life to have duty, morality, and virtue |
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Replace where devoted Hindus live and worship is called an? |
The ashram |
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An ordained Hindu monk is called? |
sadhu and swamii |
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Atman is the term for? |
Eternal self or true self |
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Brahman is whom or what in hinduism? |
The ultimate reality/ the creator |
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Hinduism's two paths of life include? |
Desire and renunciation |
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Identify three gunas |
brahman, nirvana, om |
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In Hinduism, the endless cycle of rebirth is called? |
Samsara |
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In Hinduism, the law of cause and effect or the law of the harvest is called? |
Karma |
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Kali is who in Hinduism? |
The goddess of death, destruction, scares the hell or sins right out of you |
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Krishna and the Buddha are whose avatars? |
Vishnu's |
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Moksha is the Hindu term for? |
Release from reincarnation. It's literally liberation. Freedom from the natural man |
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Named the son of Shiva and Parvati |
Gnisha |
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The song celestial is another name for what? |
bhagavad gita or just simply the gita |
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the bhagavad gita is a chapter from? |
mahabharata |
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The merging of Atman and Brahman is called? |
Nirvana |
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The proper name for Hinduism is? |
sanatana dharma- which means eternal truth |
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There are 10 avatars in Hinduism. The four avatars I need to know are? |
Rama, krishna, buddha, kalki |
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To do no harm, to reference all life, is called? |
ahimsa |
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What is the Hindu name for the first man on earth, or the father of humanity? |
Manu |
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What is the proper name for the Hindu Trinity of God? |
Trimurti or triad |
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Which one of the following is not one of Hinduism's for yogas? |
Karma-to do right,Bhakti-worship the God,Raja-meditation,Jnana-Learning |
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Who were the indigenous people of India who were invaded by tribes from the north? |
Dravidians |
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Who is the charioteer in the bhagavad gita |
Krishna-the mind is restless but can be conquered |
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How would you define the Taoist terms of Yin and Yang? |
Opposite that except and work together. Yin-is darkness and female, where Yang is light and male |
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In Taoism, the act of letting go and being in harmony with nature is called? |
Wu wei |
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Did the Buddha let women into his monistic order? |
Yes |
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The natural flow of energy in all beings and in all things is called? |
Chi |
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What is maitri in buddhism? |
Love, unconditional friendliness, kindness |
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Who is the founder of Zen Buddhism? |
The bodhidharma |
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What is the name of Taoism's most sacred text? |
the Toa-te-ching and the do-de-jing |
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What are the three jewels of Taoism? |
Compassion, moderation, humility |
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Who is the founder of Taoism? |
Lao-Tzu |
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What is the central metaphor of Taoism? |
Be like water. |
