Religion test 3 (Buddhism)

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The word "prajna" refers to ______

insight /wisdom

How does Buddhism compare to the other missionary religions?

it is the oldest

A ________ is a Tibetan Buddhist teacher, often a monk.

lama

One of the most popular Mahayana Buddhist scriptures in East Asia and the one that shifts the religious ideal from the arhat to the bodhisattva is called the ________

lotus sutra

Zen is derived from a word referring to one of the steps in the Eightfold Path, whose meaning is

meditation

Buddhism goes beyond the Hindu practice of trance, or Samadhi, in teaching that ________ meditation, or vipashyana, is required to achieve nirvana realization.

mindfulness

Some "good" to come out of the exile and persecution of the Tibetan Buddhists by the Chinese government has been

n extensive migration of Tibetan Buddhist teachers into almost every country in the world

means freedom and existence in an eternal state beyond all material description.

nirvana

The unique Buddhist concept of ________ says that there is no essential, unchanging interior entity at the center of a person.

non-self, anatman, anattma

Which one of the following is NOT one of the Four Noble Truths?

only some people suffer

The new institution that the Buddha created in India was the _______?

sangha

A ________ is ashrine, usually in the shape of a dome, used to mark Buddhist relics or sacred sites.

stupa

The most desirable effect of meditating on the three characteristics of existential reality is?

to still desire and dispel ignorance

The Buddha's name comes from a Sanskrit word meaning

to wake up

For how long did the Buddha teach after he discovered nirvana?

forty years

The Buddha's first disciples were:

his five former ascetic companions

While Buddhism has never been a unified religion either doctrinally or institutionally, one unifying element in the early days when the various schools were being founded was?

A common reverence for the Three Refuges

Buddhists have a history of using the legend of which king to define their exemplary relationship with rulers as protectors and patrons?

Ashoka

______ was pivotal to the spread of Buddhism, but was not the Buddha's first convert.

Ashoka

________ is the world's only nation, at the present time, that has Tibetan Buddhism as its state religion.

Bhutan

The Three Refuges include the ____, the ____ , and the________.

Buddha, Dharma, Sangha

By the year 100 CE, Buddhism had entered ________through central Asia on the silk routes.

China, East Asia

By the year 100 CE, Buddhism had entered_________ through central Asia on the silk routes.

China, East Asia

The most recognized Buddhist in the world today and a Nobel Peace Prize winner is the 14th ____________.

Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama's government lives in exile in the country of_____

India

The earliest and strongest Euro-American contact with Buddhism in the early 20th century was with the ________

Mahayana

The earliest and strongest Euro-American contact with Buddhism in the early 20th century was with the _______ branch of Buddhism.

Mahayana

The amazing global diffusion of Buddhism after WWII was because Westerners were drawn to Buddhism's _____

Meditation Techniques

The Buddhist official sacred scripture that has three divisions that total about twice the size of the Christian Bible is called the ________

Pali Canon

How long did the Buddha remain under the bodhi tree experiencing nirvana?

Seven days

In the holy land of South Asia where the Buddha was born, enlightened, and died, in which country has Buddhism remained strong?

Sri Lanka

The first two main divisions of Buddhism were?

Theravada and Mahayana

The name most associated with "engaged Buddhism" is

Thich Nhat Hanh

In the Himalayan region, it was ________ Buddhism that found supremacy

Vajrayana, tantric

The Bodhidharma is the religious ideal as set forth in which form of Buddhism?

Zen

The "four passing sights" Siddhartha encountered did include:

aging men, sick men, dead men, and men who have renounced all attachments

The enlightened disciples of the Buddha in the Theravada tradition were called

arhat

The Buddhist doctrine that views reality as an ongoing, impermanent, and interdependent flux in the form of a circle is called _______

dependent origination

________ refers to sorrow, suffering, or misery.

dukkha


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