Midterm Lists

Question 1

What does “recognition” mean in regard to the five skandhas?

Answer 1

“Recognition” is the aggregate “mound” of making coherency/hardened intellectual concepts in reaction to “feeling”

Question 1

What is “Brahmin” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?

Answer 1

“Brahmins” are priests, teachers and preachers.

Question 2

The Three types of Duhkha:

Answer 2

1. Dukkha-dukkha
2. Viparinama-Dukkha
3. Samkhara-Dukkha

Question 2

Four stages of life in Brahmanical society:

Answer 2

1. Student 2. Householder 3. Retired 4. Renounced

Question 3

What is “Shudra” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?

Answer 3

“Shudras” are laborers and servants.

Question 3

The Three Jewels:

Answer 3

1. The Buddha 2. The Dharma 3. The Sangha

Question 5

What does “form” mean in regard to the five skandhas?

Answer 5

“Form” is the aggregate “mound” of bodily matter.

Question 6

Five Skandhas

Answer 6

1. Form 2. Feeling 3. Recognition 4. Formation 5. Consciousness

Question 6

The Buddha’s Four Sights:

Answer 6

1. An old man (aging) 2. A sick person (sickness) 3. A dead body (death) 4. An ascetic (the devotion to ending suffering)

Question 6

The Buddha’s insights during the three watches of the night of Enlightenment:

Answer 6

1. Rebirth/Redeath 2. Karma 3. The Four Noble Truths

Question 6

What is the second type of suffering?

Answer 6

Viparinama-Dukkha - “suffering of change,”

Question 8

What is “Kshatriyas” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?

Answer 8

“Kshatriyas” are kings, governors and warriors.

Question 10

What does “feeling” mean in regard to the five skandhas?

Answer 10

“Feeling” is the aggregate “mound” of reaction to “form”

Question 11

What does “consciousness” mean in regard to the five skandhas?

Answer 11

“Consciousness” is the aggregate “mound” of understood existence by which we think the five skandhas are really a unified whole and read in the “self.”

Question 13

Four Noble Truths:

Answer 13

1. Suffering 2. Cause of suffering 3. Cessation of suffering 4. Way to the cessation of suffering

Question 14

What is the third type of suffering?

Answer 14

Samkhara-Dukkha - “suffering of conditionality”

Question 15

The Three Afflicted Emotions/Poisons:

Answer 15

1. Ignorance 2. Attachment 3. Aversion

Question 17

What is “Vaishyas” in regard to the Four Castes of Brahminical Society?

Answer 17

“Vaishyas” are ranchers, farmers, and merchants.

Question 18

What is the first type of suffering?

Answer 18

Dukkha-Dukkha - “suffering suffering,” ordinary suffering everyone experiences.

Question 19

What does “formation” mean in regard to the five skandhas?

Answer 19

“Formation” is the aggregate “mound” of making full systems of meaning out of the “recognitions”

Question 20

Four castes of Brahmanical society

Answer 20

• the Brahmins: priests, teachers and preachers. - the Kshatriyas: kings, governors, warriors and soldiers. - the Vaishyas: ranchers, agriculturists, businessmen, artisans and merchants. - the Shudras: labourers and servants

Question 22

The Twelve Links of Interdependent Origination:

Answer 22

1. Ignorance - not knowing the four noble truths of dukka 2. Formation -the mental creation/fabrication we make based on ignorance 3. Consciousness - cognizing/mentally “knowing” the formations 4. Name and Form/Body and mind 5. Senses 6. Contact 7. Sensation 8. Craving 9. Attachment/clinging 10. Karma/Becoming - Becoming a karmic force 11. Birth 12. Death

Question 23

The Six Realms of Samsara

Answer 23

1. Gods 2. Demi-gods 3. Humans 4. Animals 5. Hungry Ghosts 6. Hell denizens