Key quotations (Buddhism)

Question 1

Buddha’s birth

Answer 1

“No further rebirths I have to endure for this is my last body”

Question 2

Enlightenment

Answer 2

Though my skin, my nerves and my bones shall waste away and my life blood go dry, I will not leave this seat until I have attained the highest wisdom, called supreme enlightenment

Question 3

The Four Sights

Answer 3

After I had seen the four signs…I engaged in striving difficult to do

Question 4

Founding of the Sangha

Answer 4

Listen, ascetics, I have a way to deathlessness

Question 5

Dukkah

Answer 5

I teach one thing and one only, that is suffering and the cessation of suffering

Question 6

Anatta

Answer 6

Nagasena and the Chariot- this story shows that there is no self or soul, we are just a collection of parts.

Question 7

First Noble Truth

Answer 7

No house is free from death

Question 8

Second Noble Truth

Answer 8

Bhikkhus, all is burning…burning with the fire of lust, with the fire of hate, with the fire of delusion

Question 9

Second Noble Truth

Answer 9

It is craving which produces re-becoming (rebirth)