Basic Buddhism

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Buddhism developed as an offshoot of Hinduism. True False

2. Buddhism developed as a social movement against Brahmanical society. True False

3. In essence Buddhist and Hindu philosophy are mostly in agreement. True False

4. The Buddha spoke Pali. it is not certain no yes he never spoke anything else

5. Theravada Buddhism is the original form of Buddhism. True False

6. Sometime around the second council, a major schism split the Buddhist world into the Hinayana and Mahayana. True False

7. All Buddhists, at least in theory, repudiate the existence of a self. True False

8. With the exception of the Tibetan communities in exile, Buddhism is now non-existent in India. True False

9. The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of all Buddhist Tibetans. (NB: 'Buddhist Tibetans' because historically a small but persistent minority of Tibetans are Muslim and, more recently, Chinese policy has led to the resettlement of a large ethnically non-Tibetan population in Tibet) True False

10. Nirvana, the goal of human existence according to Buddhism, means the 'blowing out' of the self. True False