Buddhism

Question 1

Nibbana

Answer 1

Having achieved enlightenment

Question 2

Dhamma

Answer 2

The written record of the Buddha’s teaching and how to achieve enlightenment, he did not write them down so they have been done after his death.

Question 3

The nature of existence (3 points)

Answer 3

1. ANICCA - impermanence, nothing lasts
2. ANATTA - ‘no self’, you are constantly changing
3. DUKKAH - suffering, an unsatisfactoriness at life

Question 4

The 4 sights

Answer 4

Age, sickness, death and a holiness

Question 5

4 Noble truths

Answer 5

1. DUKKAH - suffering is life
2. TANHA - attachment and craving is the origin of suffering (3 poisons)
3. MAGGA - the cessation of suffering through the eightfold path
4. NIRVANA - the cessation of suffering is attainable

Question 6

The 3 poisons

Answer 6

Greed, ignorance and hatred

Question 7

The eightfold path (3 paths)

Answer 7

The middle way in which to live without either extremes which will connect people to the 3 poisons (luxury and hardship).
WISDOM - seeing things how they really are
MORALITY - ‘right speech’
MEDITATION - ‘right concentration’

Question 8

Samsara

Answer 8

The concept that suffering reached life is full of dissatisfaction and can only end once Nibbana is reached.

Question 8

The 3 jewels (the 3 refuges)

Answer 8

1. THE BUDDAH - the doctor (yellow)
2. THE DHAMMA - the medicine (blue)
3. THE SANGHA - the community (red)

Question 9

Five main precepts (I undertake to abstain…)

Answer 9

1. Taking a life
2. Taking what is not freely given
3. The misuse of senses
4. Wrong speech
5. Taking drugs and alcohol which cloud the mind

Question 10

Therevada (Arhat)

Answer 10

Follow the teachings of the Buddah very closely.
Believe the best way to reach Nibbana is to become a monk.
Takes lifetimes to achieve.

Question 11

Bodhisattva (mahayana)

Answer 11

Use other teachings to reach understand Buddah’s teachings.
Bodhi = enlightened, Sattva = being
They take a vow to help them on their path, done as an act of compassion for the sake of others.

Question 12

Kamma

Answer 12

Suffering caused by our actions

Question 13

Meditation

Answer 13

The main and a key way in which to achieve enlightenment. Through training the mind and seeing the world and self as it is allows for craving to stop and allows for enlightenment.

Question 14

Worship

Answer 14

Chants, mantras, prayer aids (beads/objects to remind of mantra).