Buddhist Practices

Question 1

Features of buddhist temple

Answer 1

Main hall, meditation hall, study hall, shrines stupa

Question 2

Shrines

Answer 2

In temples, homes, monasteries, places of work, a focal point for meditation. Make offerings to show grattitude to the Buddha

Question 3

Light, flower, incense

Answer 3

Englightenment, impermanence, purity

Question 4

Monasteries

Answer 4

Place for monks to live, dedicated to meditation, study and devotion, part of sangha(three jewels)

Question 5

Worship can take form of (6)

Answer 5

Meditation , public or private, chanting, reciting mantras, making offerings, rituals

Question 6

Buddhists worship to

Answer 6

Show gratitude, a way to understand teachings, to get closer to buddha

Question 7

Samatha meditation-theravada buddhists

Answer 7

Calming the mind, develop concentration, mindfulness of breathing, focus on a single object

Question 8

Vipassana meditation-theravada

Answer 8

‘Insight’ meditation, develop understnding of the nature of reality, aim to understand the three marks of existsents, develop wisdom

Question 9

Type of vipassana meditation

Answer 9

Seated / walking

Question 10

Visualisation meditation-mahayana

Answer 10

Visualise a buddha or Bodhisattva, focus of concentration and learning

Question 11

Rituals for death and mourning- theravada

Answer 11

Donations often made to a worthy cause in the hope that good karma will transfer to the deceased

Question 12

Tibet

Answer 12

Sky burial, body left in high places as a gift to vultures

Question 13

Pure land-rituals for death

Answer 13

Buried with head facing west (direction of pureland)

Question 14

Festivals

Answer 14

Celebrations of events in the Buddha’s life, to remember, to come together

Question 15

Retreats

Answer 15

Opportunity for intensive practice, place for meditation, study, learning and rituals, to deepen understanding, to come together, period of time spent away from regualr life

Question 16

Wesak

Answer 16

Commemorate buddhas birth, englightenment, passing away, light candles, make offerings, worship, meditate , decorate homes and temples- Theravada

Question 17

Parinirvana

Answer 17

To commemorate buddhas passing into nirvana, read, study, meditate, go on retreats, mahayana

Question 18

What do karma determine

Answer 18

Whether they will be reborn into one of the 6 realms

Question 19

What realm do most buddhists hope they will be reborn into

Answer 19

Human realm

Question 20

Compassion

Answer 20

Karuna

Question 21

Metta

Answer 21

Loving-kindness

Question 22

Teaching about compassion

Answer 22

‘If you want others to be happy, practice compassion, if you want to be happy practice compassion’-dalai lama

Question 23

Five moral precepts- refrain from

Answer 23

Taking life, taking something not rightfully given, sexual misconduct, wrong speech, intoxicants that cloud the wind

Question 24

6 perfections

Answer 24

Generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation, wisdom

Question 25

Eightfold path- Right

Answer 25

View, intention, speech, livilhood, action, effort, concentration, mindfulness

Question 26

Which buddhists follow eightfold path for source of guidance

Answer 26

Theravada buddhists

Question 27

What buddhists follow 6 perfections and moral precepts as a source of guidance

Answer 27

Mahayana