12_Themes_1_CH4

Question 1

Sanchi stupa

Answer 1

Sanchi is a small town in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh, India,

Question 2

who funded to protect sanchi stupa

Answer 2

The rulers of Bhopal, Shahjehan Begum and her
successor Sultan Jehan Begum, provided money for
the preservation of the ancient site.

Question 3

No wonder then
that John Marshall dedicated his important volumes
on Sanchi to ___________, She funded the museum
that was built there as well as the guesthouse where
he lived and wrote the volumes. She also funded
the publication of the volumes.

Answer 3

Sultan Jehan.

Question 4

__________in iran,______ in china,_____in greece

Answer 4

it saw the emergence
of thinkers such as Zarathustra in Iran, Kong Zi in
China, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Greece,

Question 5

Name of two sacrifices

Answer 5

Rajasuya nad ashvamedha

Question 6

kutagarashala –

Answer 6

literally,
a hut with a pointed roof – or in groves where
travelling mendicants halted. If a philosopher
succeeded in convincing one of his rivals, the
followers of the latter also became his disciples.

Question 7

Chhandogra Upanishad two verses

Answer 7

1.The nature of the self.
2.The true Sacrifice

Question 8

Dipavasma:
Mahavasama:

Answer 8

a (literally, the chronicle of the island) and Mahavamsa (the great chronicle)

Question 9

older text of buddhist are in _____
and later is in ____

Answer 9

Pali,Sanskrit

Question 10

Vinaya Pitaka:
Sutta Pitaka:
Abhidhamma Pitaka:

Answer 10

1.Rules and regulations
2.Teachings
3.Philoshphical Matters

Question 11

Makkhali Gosala belonge to _______and is a ________
Ajita Kesakambakoin belonged to __________and is a ____________

Answer 11

1.Ajivika,Fatalist
2.Lokayatas,Materalist

Question 12

Mahavira is also called as_________
Tirthankaras means_________

Answer 12

1.Vardhamana
2Those who guide men and women across the river of existence

Question 13

_______________ contains the story of a queen named Kamlavati persuading her husband to renounce the world.

Answer 13

Uttaradhyayana Sutta

Question 14

Hagiography

Answer 14

_____________ is a biography of
a saint or religious leader.
Hagiographies often praise the
saint’s achievements, and may
not always be literally accurate.
They are important because
they tell us about the beliefs of
the followers of that particular
tradition.

Question 15

Buddha belongs to

Answer 15

1.Sakya Clan

Question 16

Meaning of words
1.Anicca
2.Anatta
3.Samanas

Answer 16

1.Transient(Not constant)
2.Soulless(Without feeling,warmth, intrest)
3.Who give up world and renounced the world

Question 17

This is an excerpt from the Sutta Pitaka, and contains the advice given by the Buddha to a wealthy householder named Sigala is about

Answer 17

In five ways should a master look after his servants
and employees …
1.by assigning them work according
to their strength,
2.by supplying them with food and
wages,
3.by tending them in sickness;
4. by sharing delicacies with them
5. by granting leave at times …

Question 18

Nibbana is
Last wrods of Buddha were

Answer 18

1.literally the extinguishing of the ego and
desire – and thus end the cycle of suffering for those
who renounced the world
2.Be lamps unto yourselves as all of you must work out
your own liberation.”

Question 19

Sangha is

Answer 19

an organisation of monks
who too became teachers of dhamma.

Question 20

1.who did the females gain access to sanga
2.First woman to be obtained as Bhikkhuni

Answer 20

1.Ananda
2.Mahapajapati Gotami

Question 21

_________This unique Buddhist text, part of the Sutta Pitaka, is a
collection of verses composed by bhikkhunis.

Answer 21

The Therigatha

Question 22

Rules for monks and nuns in the Vinaya Pitaka

Answer 22

1.When a new felt (blanket/rug) has been made by a
bhikkhu, it is to be kept for (at least) six years
2.Sharing is caring

Question 23

Meaning of Metta
Chaityas

Answer 23

1.Fellow Felling
2.Have been derived from the word chita,
meaning a funeral pyre, and by
extension a funerary mound.

Question 24

Major Buddhist sites

Answer 24

1.Shravasti
2.Barabar
3.Bharhut
4.Sanchi
5.Nasik
6.Junnar
7.Karle
8.Amaravati
9.Nagarjunakonda Krishna

Some Brave Bikers Speed Near Jagged Karavan Avenues Nearby.

Question 25

Buddha Born at_____
Attained Enligtenment at____________
first sermon_________
Attained Nibbana__________

Answer 25

1.Lumbini
2.Bodh Gaya
3.Sarnath
4.Kusinagar

Question 26

Mahaparinibbana Sutta is part of____a nd related to

Answer 26

1.Sutta Pitaka of Theravada Buddhism
2.Last days of Buddha

Question 27

Ashokavadana, Buddhist text is related to

Answer 27

Asoka distributed portions of the
Buddha’s relics to every important town and ordered
the construction of stupas over them

Question 28

Anda is
Harmika is
Yashti is
Chhatri

Answer 28

1.a simple semi-circular mound of earth
2.a balcony like structure that represented the abode of the gods.
3.A Mast
4.Umberella

Question 29

1.How did worshipers enter in stupa

Answer 29

Worshippers entered through the eastern
gateway and walked around the mound in a clockwise
direction keeping the mound on the right, imitating
the sun’s course through the sky

Question 30

Shah-ji-dheri is in and built by

Answer 30

1.Peshwar and Kanishka
2.Worshippers entered through the eastern
gateway and walked around the mound in a clockwise
direction keeping the mound on the right, imitating
the sun’s course through the sky