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1.
What
does
the
word
Buddha
literally
mean?
4]
__________________________
2. What
was
the
given
name
of
the
Buddha?
[4]
_________________________
3. True or False: Belief in a creator God has no part in the Buddhist religion. [4]
_____
4. The approximate year of the Buddha’s birth. [8] _________________
5—7.
What did the Buddha see the first time he left the palace?
_________________ _________________
[12]
What did the Buddha see the
second time he left the palace? [12] ___________________________________
What did the Buddha see the third time he left the palace?
[12]
_______________________________________________
8. Buddha sat under this type of tree, determined to remain there until he had
complete understanding. [19] __________________
9. The embodiment of death, he symbolizes all the obstacles that prevent one
from attaining enlightenment. [20] ________________
10. What is samsara? [23] __________________________________________
11. Buddha’s Discourse on the Four Noble Truths was delivered at Sarnath in
North India to his first students in which park? [29] _____________
12. The first of the Fourth Noble Truths is the truth of this.
[30]
________________
13. What,
according
to
Buddhism,
is
the
cause
of
suffering?
[33]
end
of
suffering?
[34]
_____________________
14. What,
according
to
Buddhism,
is
the
______________________
15. Literally “action,” it is the law of cause and effect in Buddhism.
[41]
_____________
16—17. The number of ascetics who first gathered around the Buddha after his
enlightenment.
[42] ____________
The name given to the community of
Buddhist followers. [42] ________________
18—19. What branch of Buddhism, also known as “Greater Vehicle,” is open to
all believers? [50] ___________________ The followers of this branch adopted
as their new ideal what figure, whose outstanding quality was compassion and
who would indefinitely delay his or her own enlightenment until all beings were
freed? [56] ___________________
20.
What third century Indian emperor provided a tremendous boost for
Buddhism by emphasizing its principles? [58] _________________
21. Adherents of what religion invaded India in the eleventh century C.E.? [60]
____________
22—23.
The key to following the Mahayana path of Buddhism is Maitri, or
kindness to _______________.
[64] True compassion is the result of
experiencing sunyata, literally this. [68] ________________
24. Elements of Buddhism filtered into China along what transportation route
from around the first century C.E.? [76] ____________________
25. What Chinese philosophy upheld the ideal of a stable social order in which
everyone knew their place? [77] ______________________
26. What mystical Chinese philosophy had much in common with Mahayana
Buddhism and blended easily with it? [78] _______________
27. What branch of Buddhism points to enlightenment being found in the present
moment and highlights the uselessness of religious ritual and intellectual
analysis for the finding of release? [85] ____________________
28—29.
What
are
the
two
pillars
of
Zen
practice?
[94]
_______________________; ______________________
30. Buddhism arrived in this nation around the sixth century A.D. along with
many other things Chinese. [97] ___________
31—32. What was the indigenous religion of Japan? [98] ________________
What is the name of the numerous gods and spirits stressed in this religion? [98]
______________
33. What Japanese warriors were attracted to the study of Zen?
[104]
_______________
34. The original religion of Tibet, it stressed the role of nine gods in the creation of
the world and the need to seek balance within the cosmic order.
[107]
___________
35—36. Also known as tantric Buddhism, the essence of this tradition is the
transmission of the state of enlightened mind from teacher to student and the
emphasis that any circumstances can be used as a way to wake up. [111]
______________________ Another name for the Crazy Wisdom teacher in this
tradition. [118] _____________
37. In Vajrayana, as in Zen, this person is seen as the living embodiment of the
Buddha. [127] __________________
38. The percentage of the male population in Tibet that was comprised of monks.
[135] ___________
39. True or False: Buddhist believe in the concept of a soul that passes from
one body to another. [145] ___________
40. True or False: The Buddha himself was unwilling to speculate about what
happens after death, because such questions are not useful in the search for
reality in the here and now. [146] ___________
41. True or False: Buddhism remains the most important religion in India today.
[150] __________
42. This is the conservative tradition of Buddhism that dominates today in Sri
Lanka, Burma and Thailand. [150] _________________________
43. What nation invaded Tibet in 1959? [153] ____________
44. A world-wide symbol of the power of Buddhism, he was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1989. [154] __________________
45.
According to Buddhism, what is the only source of energy that is useful?
[166] _______________