Buddhism

Question 1

Eight fold path

Answer 1

Right view
Right intentions 
Right speech
Right action
Right livelihood 
Right effort
Right concentration 
Right mindfulness

Question 2

Point: The dhamma is the teachings of the Buddha

Answer 2

Development: it includes the Three Marks of existence, the four Nobel truths and the noble eightfold path

Question 3

Anicca

Answer 3

Impermanence ( Pali Anicca, Sanskrit anitya) means that all conditioned things ( sańkhāra) are in a constant state of flux

Question 4

Dukkha

Answer 4

Dukkha (Sanskrit duhkha) means “ unsatisfactoriness, suffering, pain”.

Question 5

Anatta

Answer 5

Anatta (Sanskrit anatman) refers to the doctrine of “non-self”, that there is no unchanging, permanent self or soul in living beings and no abiding essence in anything or phenomena.

Question 6

Therevada Buddhism

Answer 6

This is the most ancient form of Buddhism, it is the most dominant school in south east Asia( Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos)

Question 7

Mahayana Buddhism

Answer 7

Mahayana Buddhism developed out of the Theravada tradition roughly 500 years after the Buddha attained Enlightenment. A number of individual schools and traditions have formed under the banner of Mahayana, including Zen Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, and Tantric Buddhism. Mahayana Buddhism focuses on the idea of compassion and touts bodhisattvas, which are beings that work out of compassion to liberate other sentient beings from their suffering, as central devotional figures.

Question 8

Zen Buddhism

Answer 8

Zen Buddhism is said to have originated in China with the teachings of the monk Bodhimarna. Zen Buddhism treats zazen meditation and daily practice as essential for attaining Enlightenment and de-emphasizes the rigorous study of scripture.

Question 9

Buddhas name

Answer 9

Siddhartha Gautama

Question 10

Pure Land

Answer 10

This is the dominant form of Buddhism in Japan and focuses on chanting the name of Amitabha Buddha

Question 10

Jataka

Answer 10

The Jataka Tales are stories about the previous lives of the Buddha

Question 10

Kamma

Answer 10

The Sanskrit form of kamma. Literally ‘action’. Deliberate actions that affect the believer’s circumstances in this and future lives; cause and effect

Question 10

Magga

Answer 10

The eight fold path. ‘The middle way’ which leads to freedom from suffering (the fourth noble truth).

Question 11

Arhat

Answer 11

A perfected person. In Theravada Buddhism this is a term for a person who has attained Nibbana

Question 12

Nibbana

Answer 12

Nibbana is the earliest and most common term used to describe the goal of the Buddhist path.

Question 13

Bodhisattva

Answer 13

A concept in Mahayana Buddhism. A being destined for enlightenment, who postpones final attainment of Buddhahood in order to help living beings.

Question 14

5 skandhas/ aggregates

Answer 14

1 physical 
2 sensations/ feelings 
3 perception 
4 mental
5 awareness

Question 15

5 precepts - panca sila

Answer 15

1 abstain from harming life 
2 abstain from stealing 
3 abstain from sexual misconduct
4 abstain from lying and being unkind 
5 abstain from drugs and alcohol

Question 16

4 noble truths

Answer 16

1 Dukkha (suffering)
2 Tanha (craving) 
3 Nirodha (non attachment)
4 Magga (Follow the 8foldpath)

Question 17

6 perfections

Answer 17

1 charity 
2 morality 
3 patience 
4 energy 
5 meditation 
6 wisdom