buddhist beliefs

Question 1

Where was Siddhartha born?

Answer 1

Nepal

Question 2

Who was his father?

Answer 2

A king

Question 3

What did a holy man tell the king?

Answer 3

His son would become a great ruler

Question 4

What kind of life did Sid have?

Answer 4

A luxurious one

Question 5

What are the four sights?

Answer 5

Sickness, old age, death and a wandering holy man

Question 6

Who tortured their bodies in order to discipline their minds?

Answer 6

A group of ascetics

Question 7

What did he realize when the girl gave him food?

Answer 7

There must be a middle way

Question 8

What is the middle way?

Answer 8

There must be a balance between asceticism and luxury

Question 9

Where did he meditate?

Answer 9

Underneath a peepul tree

Question 10

What are the three watches of the night?

Answer 10

Knowledge of previous lives, things were reborn depending on their kamma, suffering and how to overcome it (4 noble truths)

Question 11

What did all these events help him discover?

Answer 11

True nature of reality

Question 12

What are the four noble truths?

Answer 12

Everyone suffers, cause is desire, detachment, eightfold path

Question 13

What is the threefold way?

Answer 13

Ethics, meditation, wisdom

Question 14

What comes under ethics (sila)?

Answer 14

Right speech, right action, right livelihood

Question 15

What comes under meditation (samadhi)?

Answer 15

Right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration

Question 16

What comes under wisdom (Dhammapada)?

Answer 16

Right understanding, right intention

Question 17

What is Dhamma?

Answer 17

Truth about the universe, a refuge

Question 18

What are the three refuges?

Answer 18

Buddha, dhamma, sangha

Question 19

What is dependent arising?

Answer 19

Inter-relatedness, everything effects evrything

Question 20

What is samsara?

Answer 20

The cycle of birth, death and re-birth

Question 21

What is nibbana?

Answer 21

Getting rid of self by meditation and the eightfold path (arhat) or getting rid of self by no longer needing reincarnation

Question 22

What are the three marks of existence?

Answer 22

Suffering (dukkha), impermanence (anicca), no self (anatta)

Question 23

What is sangha?

Answer 23

The whole buddhist community

Question 24

What is anicca?

Answer 24

Impermanence, everything is constantly changing

Question 25

How are anicca and dukkha interconnected?

Answer 25

We suffer bcs we don’t want change. Accepting change means less suffering

Question 26

What is anatta?

Answer 26

Self is not fixed or permanent

Question 27

What are the 5 aggregates? (anatta)

Answer 27

Form, sensation, perception, mental formations, consciousness

Question 28

How is anatta related to dukkha?

Answer 28

Looking out for ‘self’ will cause suffering for other people