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Question 1

What is a Buddha?

Answer 1

Someone who has achieved enlightenment

Question 2

Who is the Buddha?

Answer 2

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 3

What is a sammasambuddha?

Answer 3

A fully self-enlightened Buddha who established the sasana

Question 4

What is a hagiography?

Answer 4

An ‘exemplary truth’: a religious biography

Question 5

How was the Buddha conceived?

Answer 5

A white elephant (the Buddha) entered his mother’s womb

Question 6

What was the prophecy?

Answer 6

He will either be a great political ruler, or a great spiritual leader :/

Question 7

What are the four sights?

Answer 7

An old man, a sickly man, death, a wandering holy man

Question 8

What was the renunciation?

Answer 8

He renounced his birth right and submitted himself to a life of hardship - important that he found it didn’t work, which led him to discover the middle way

Question 9

What happened during the awakening?

Answer 9

Under the bodhi tree - mara attacked with an army, tempt with glory and pleasure, daughters came to seduce, tried to challenge his honour: the earth roared to defend the Buddhas honour

Question 10

How can you interpretate Mara’s defeat?

Answer 10

1. Psychological (a conflicted mind)
2. Physical
3. Hindrances (obstacles that hinder spiritual progress)
4. The daughters (represent the three poisons)
5. Whole person (Mara represents a threefold attack on mind, body, and character)

Question 11

What are the four meditative absorption? (The Jhanas)

Answer 11

1. Unbroken attention to object meditation
2. Thoughts discarded, detachment profound, sense of joy
3. Equanimity, composed, attentiveness
4. Beyond all differentiation, beyond pleasure and pain, beyond joy and thought, mind is a tranquil, sharp tool

Question 12

What are the three insights?

Answer 12

1. Knowledge of past lives: the Buddha recounted these stories to help deliver practical examples; known as the Jatakas [550]
2. Karma: pure, observational insight of plight of other beings, tied to world of rebirth; intentions and actions, instrumental in determining nature of our existence; transform ignorance to enlightenment by beginning with the origins of karma in terms of
   mental formation
3. Cessation of dukkha: suffering must be eradicated through an awareness of the three marks of existence; achieved through destruction of the three poisons

Question 13

What was the vinaya?

Answer 13

The rules the sangha follow :3
Written in the vinaya pitaka

Question 14

How was the basic vinaya of the Theravada tradition established?

Answer 14

A Buddhists council held three months after the Buddhas death: established a code of conduct and teachings
A council held around 100 years later due to internal conflict over application
Another council held 17 years later who settled the Theravada school

Question 15

What is the patimokkha?

Answer 15

The rules governing the monastic sangha, commonly learnt and recited: addresses 8 types of behaviour (227 for monks; 331 for nuns)done nod mhm you could finish nkw

Question 16

What are the three types of suffering?

Answer 16

dukkha-dukkha: physical and mental suffering
viparinama-dukkha: suffering due to impermanence/constant up and down of life
sankhara-dukkha: suffering in contingent nature of existence - a subtle dissatisfaction with human life