Religion test 3 (Buddhism)
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
