10 Words

Question 1

Samatha

Answer 1

Practicing single-pointed meditation through mindfulness of breathing to calm the mind

Question 2

Sangha

Answer 2

Translated as community and referring to the Buddhist community of monks, nuns and novices

Question 3

Tanha

Answer 3

Translates to craving or desire which can be physical or mental

Question 4

Vipassana

Answer 4

Mediation practiced in Therava Buddhism involved concentration

Question 5

Arhat

Answer 5

Foe Destroyer, a person who has destroyed all delusions through training on a spiritual path

Question 6

Bush’s hood

Answer 6

Gaining highest level of enlightenment where one gains omniscient wisdom and whose function is to bestow mental peace on all living beings

Question 7

Englightenment

Answer 7

Liberation and true cessation of the cycle of samsara

Question 8

Jatakas

Answer 8

Stories relating to the past lives of the Buddha

Question 9

Four Noble truths

Answer 9

Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, Magga

Question 10

Magga

Answer 10

Path to cessation of suffering