buddist practices mock

Question 1

what is puja

Answer 1

Worship allows Buddhists to express their gratitude to Buddha for his example and teachings or dhamma

Question 2

to worship they

Answer 2

Make an offering including flowers, candles and incense. The offerings are symbolic – a candle for wisdom
(because light drives away the darkness of ignorance),

flowers for impermanence

and incense for purity (in our thoughts and in our actions as written in the Eightfold Path)

Question 3

what is in a temple

Answer 3

A main hall – with a shrine dedicated to the Buddha or a bodhisattva. The focus is a statue (a Buddharupa).
Here Buddhists make offerings to Buddha and express gratitude

A meditation room (in Tibetan Buddhism this is called a gompa)
A pagoda or stupa which often contains holy relics.

Question 4

Theravada funerals

Answer 4

Very little money is spent on the funeral; mourners will instead give the money to charity.

This will bring them good kamma
which they believe they can transfer to the deceased, so that he/she will have a more favourable re -birth.

• A shrine will be set up displaying a picture of the deceased alongside an image of the Buddha.

Mourners will offer flowers, as
these represent Anicca (impermanence) Buddhists are reminded that everything must pass, and that they too will die one day.

Question 5

Mahayana Buddhist funerals

Answer 5

Tibetan Buddhists favour ‘sky burials’ where the body is left in a high place as a gift for the vultures. This is a practical
solution in a mountainous country where there is very little wood for burning, and the ground is frozen for much of the year, so
burial is impossible.

It is also a reminder of impermanence
teachers are cremated and a stupa is built to house their remains.

The stupa
is symbolic as it is built with a mound at the bottom to represent earth.

Question 6

kamma

Answer 6

Buddhists believe in kamma, or the law of consequences.