Buddhism - Midterm Flashcards
What are the Four Noble Truths? (Arya-satya)
1) All life is suffering. (duhka)
2) Desire is the cause of suffering.
3) Removing desire, removes suffering (nirvana)
4) The Eightfold path is the way of removing desire
What does Buddha mean?
“the awakened one”
What were the Pali Canon?
A record of The Buddha’s sermons.
What were the 3 Baskets?
- The Buddha’s lectures
- Monastic Rules
- Scholastic Teachings
What are the Jatakas?
The stories of The Buddha’s past lives.
The Eightfold Path is:
- Right View
- Right Resolve
- Right Speech
- Right Action
- Right Livelihood
- Right Effort
- Right Mindfulness
- Right Meditation
Ignorance, compositional factors or constructing activities, Consciousness, Name and form, Six sense objects, Contact, Feelings, Cravings or desire, Grasping, Becoming, and Birth, Old Age, Death are all part of __________________
Dependent Origination
The six realms of rebirth are:
The Gods, asuras, humans, animals hungry ghosts, and in hell.
What determines the movement between the six realms of rebirth?
Karma
Samsara is __________
The cycle of rebirth
The only way to escape samsara is __________
achieve nirvana
What was The Buddha’s real name?
Siddharta Gautama
What is ‘dharma’?
The teachings and doctrines of Buddhism.
The doctrinal foundations of Buddhism are _____________
The Four Noble Truths
The doctrine of ‘no-self’ is called _______________
anatman
