Human personality

Question 1

skandhas

Answer 1

heaps or bundles the 5 impermanent parts that make up a human being

Question 2

sunyata

Answer 2

'’emptiness’’ Buddhist believe that all things are empty of independent existence

Question 3

tatagatagarbha

Answer 3

Buddhist - nature, belief that all being have the potential to become a Buddha

Question 4

Theravada

Answer 4

The way of the elders

Question 5

Mahayana

Answer 5

The Great Vehicle

Question 6

The 5 skandhas
(Theravada)

Answer 6

Form: The physical stuff of beings
Sensation: Basic data that comes from our senses
Perception: When sensations are transformed into concepts
Mental formation: Our desires
Consciousness: awareness of being a thinking feeling thing

Question 7

kleshas

Answer 7

negative mental states

Question 8

what are the 5 skandhas
HEAPS

Answer 8

H - helps us understand anatta the five skandas are theravada teaching developed the concept of anatta
E - ever changing heaps every being is made of ever changing heaps of form, perception, sensation, mental formation, and conscienceless.
A- attachment to the five skandahs causes dukkha
P - perceiving the reality of five skandhas helps reducing attachments and suffering and move closer to nirvana
S - self the five skandhas do not combine to make a permanent self because they are always changing

Question 9

what is tathagatagarbha
HONEY

Answer 9

All beings Have buddha nature
Our buddha nature is Obscured by sins
Negative kleshas prevent us from releasing our buddha nature
Explained by analogy of the bees if we want honey, nirvana, be have to get ride of the bees kleshas
some buddhist already believe you are a buddha You don’t know yet

Question 10

Sunyata
EMPTY

Answer 10

means Emptiness
Mahayana view that all things are empty if independence existence
all thing are in the Process of arising and passing away
all things are being connected and Tied together interconnected
You just can’t see the whole picture