page 5 history rp year 10

Question 1

stupa

Answer 1

a small building in a monastery that sometimes contains holy relics

Question 2

sukhavati

Answer 2

a paradise where amitabha buddha lives and where pure land buddhists aim to reborn

Question 3

sunyata

Answer 3

emptiness: the concept that nothing has a separate,independent self or soul

Question 4

tanha

Answer 4

craving (desiring or wanting something )

Question 5

temple

Answer 5

a place where buddhists come together to practice

Question 6

thangka

Answer 6

a detailed painting of a buddhas or bodhisattva

Question 7

the eightfold path

Answer 7

eight aspects that buddhist’s practice and live by in order to achieve enlightenment

Question 8

the five aggregates

Answer 8

the five aspects that make up a person

Question 9

the five ascetics

Answer 9

the buddhas first students; five monks that followed ascetic practices

Question 10

the five moral precepts

Answer 10

five principles that buddhist’s try to follow to live ethically and morally

Question 11

the four noble truths

Answer 11

the four truths that the buddha taught about suffering

Question 12

the four sights

Answer 12

old age,illness,death, and a holy man ; these four sights led the buddha to leave his life of luxury in the palace

Question 13

the four sublime states

Answer 13

the four qualities of love, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity which the buddha taught buddhists to develop

Question 14

the six perfections

Answer 14

the six qualities of virtues that mahayana buddhists try to develop in order to live as bodhisattvas

Question 15

the three poisons

Answer 15

greed,hatred and ignorance; the three main causes of suffering

Question 16

the three watches of the night

Answer 16

the three realisations that the buddha made to achieve enlightenment

Question 17

the three fold way

Answer 17

the eightfold path grouped into 3 sections of ethics, meditation and wisdom

Question 18

the tibetan wheel of life

Answer 18

an image that symbolises samsara , often found in tibetan buddhist monasteries and temples

Question 19

theravada buddhism

Answer 19

the school of the elders, an ancient buddhist tradition found in southern asia

Question 20

unskilful

Answer 20

bad, unethical actions or behaviours

Question 21

vipassana meditation

Answer 21

insight meditation , a type of meditation that involves understanding of the nature of reality

Question 22

visualisation

Answer 22

imagining or seeing an object in one’s mind

Question 23

wesak

Answer 23

a theravada festival that celebrates the buddhas birth,enlightenment and passing

Question 24

wisdom (panna)

Answer 24

a section of the threefold way that deals with buddhist approaches to understanding the nature of reality

Question 25

zazen meditation

Answer 25

a type of meditation in zen buddhism that requires awareness of the time present moment