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Quiz about Suttas  Sutras
Quiz about Suttas  Sutras

Suttas & Sutras Trivia Quiz


From the Nikayas to the Mahayana sutras, I'll give you a passage and you identify the source. Each passage is carefully chosen to make things easier for you, but the 'obvious' answer isn't necessarily the right answer.

A multiple-choice quiz by gti mug pa. Estimated time: 9 mins.
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Author
gti mug pa
Time
9 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
153,331
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
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863
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Question 1 of 10
1. "Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair are suffering; association with the unbeloved is suffering, separation from the loved is suffering, not getting what is wanted is suffering. In short, the five aggregates subject to grasping are suffering." Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "And how does a monk remain focused on the mind in and of itself? There is the case where a monk, when the mind has passion, discerns that the mind has passion. When the mind is without passion, he discerns that the mind is without passion. When the mind has aversion, he discerns that the mind has aversion. When the mind is without aversion, he discerns that the mind is without aversion. When the mind has delusion, he discerns that the mind has delusion. When the mind is without delusion, he discerns that the mind is without delusion." Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Not long after King Ajatasattu had left, the Blessed One addressed the monks: 'The king is wounded, monks. The king is incapacitated. Had he not killed his father -- that righteous man, that righteous king -- the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye would have arisen to him as he sat in this very seat.'" Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. 'Seeing your eyes, my sensual delight
    grows all the more.
Even if you should go far away,
I will think only of your pure,
    long-lashed gaze,
for there is nothing dearer to me
    than your eyes, O nymph with languid regard.'
...

Plucking out her lovely eye,
with mind unattached
she felt no regret.

'Here, take this eye. It's yours.'

Straightaway she gave it to him.
Straightaway his passion faded right there,
and he begged her forgiveness.
Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. "'Jiva, my daughter,'
you cry in the woods.
Come to your senses, Ubbiri!
        84,000
    all named Jiva
have been burned in that charnel ground.
For which of them do you grieve?"

"Pulling out
    -- completely out --
the arrow so hard to see,
embedded in my heart,
he [the Buddha] expelled from me
    -- overcome with grief --
the grief
over my daughter."
Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. "Form is empty; emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form is not other than emptiness." Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Manjusri replied, "Good sirs, you have all spoken well. Nevertheless, all your explanations are themselves dualistic. To know no one teaching, to express nothing, to say nothing, to explain nothing, to announce, to indicate nothing, and to designate nothing-that is the entrance into nonduality." Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "Then the Bhagavan turned the third wheel of doctrine, possessing good differentiations, and exceedingly wondrous, for those genuinely engaged in all vehicles, beginning with the lack of own-being of phenomena, and beginning with their absence of production, absence of cessation, quiescence from the start, and being naturally in a state of nirvana. Moreover, that wheel of doctrine turned by the Bhagavan is unsurpassable, does not provide an opportunity [for refutation], is of definitive meaning, and does not serve as a basis for dispute." Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. "Mahamati, since the ignorant and simple-minded, not knowing that the world is only something seen of the mind itself, cling to the multitudiousness of external objects, cling to the notions of beings and non-being, oneness and otherness, bothness and non-bothness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity, and think that they have a self-nature of their own, all of which rises from the discriminations of the mind and is perpetuated by habit-energy, and from which they are given over to false imagination." Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. "Suppose there is a person who says the Tathagata has attained the supremely unexcelled bodhi. Subhuti, really there is no Dharma in the Buddha's attainment of the supremely unexcelled bodhi. Subhuti, in the Tathagata's attainment of the supremely unexcelled bodhi there is no truth or falsehood. This is why the Tathagata says that all of the Dharmas are the Buddha's Dharma. Subhuti, that which is called 'all of the Dharmas,' then, is not all of the Dharmas. This is why it is called 'all of the Dharmas.'" Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. "Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, death is suffering; sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, and despair are suffering; association with the unbeloved is suffering, separation from the loved is suffering, not getting what is wanted is suffering. In short, the five aggregates subject to grasping are suffering."

Answer: Dhammacakkapavattana sutta (Setting the Wheel of Dhamma in Motion)

Samyutta Nikaya LVI.11
Adapted from the translations by Thanissaro Bhikkhu and Piyadassi Thera from the Pali
2. "And how does a monk remain focused on the mind in and of itself? There is the case where a monk, when the mind has passion, discerns that the mind has passion. When the mind is without passion, he discerns that the mind is without passion. When the mind has aversion, he discerns that the mind has aversion. When the mind is without aversion, he discerns that the mind is without aversion. When the mind has delusion, he discerns that the mind has delusion. When the mind is without delusion, he discerns that the mind is without delusion."

Answer: Mahasatipatthana sutta (The Greater Discourse on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness)

Digha Nikaya 22
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
3. "Not long after King Ajatasattu had left, the Blessed One addressed the monks: 'The king is wounded, monks. The king is incapacitated. Had he not killed his father -- that righteous man, that righteous king -- the dustless, stainless Dhamma eye would have arisen to him as he sat in this very seat.'"

Answer: Samaññaphala sutta (Discourse on the Fruits of the Contemplative Life)

Digha Nikaya 2
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
4. 'Seeing your eyes, my sensual delight     grows all the more. Even if you should go far away, I will think only of your pure,     long-lashed gaze, for there is nothing dearer to me     than your eyes, O nymph with languid regard.' ... Plucking out her lovely eye, with mind unattached she felt no regret. 'Here, take this eye. It's yours.' Straightaway she gave it to him. Straightaway his passion faded right there, and he begged her forgiveness.

Answer: Therigatha (Verses of the Elder Nuns)

XIV -- Subha and the Libertine {vv. 366-399}
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
5. "'Jiva, my daughter,' you cry in the woods. Come to your senses, Ubbiri!         84,000     all named Jiva have been burned in that charnel ground. For which of them do you grieve?" "Pulling out     -- completely out -- the arrow so hard to see, embedded in my heart, he [the Buddha] expelled from me     -- overcome with grief -- the grief over my daughter."

Answer: Therigatha (Verses of the Elder Nuns)

III.5 -- Ubbiri {vv. 51-53}
Translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu
6. "Form is empty; emptiness is form. Emptiness is not other than form; form is not other than emptiness."

Answer: Prajñaparamitahrdaya sutra (The Heart of the Perfection Wisdom Sutra)

Translated from the Sanskrit by Donald Lopez
7. Manjusri replied, "Good sirs, you have all spoken well. Nevertheless, all your explanations are themselves dualistic. To know no one teaching, to express nothing, to say nothing, to explain nothing, to announce, to indicate nothing, and to designate nothing-that is the entrance into nonduality."

Answer: Vimalakirtinirdesa sutra (Sutra of Vimalakirti)

Translated from the Tibetan by Robert Thurman (father of Uma)
8. "Then the Bhagavan turned the third wheel of doctrine, possessing good differentiations, and exceedingly wondrous, for those genuinely engaged in all vehicles, beginning with the lack of own-being of phenomena, and beginning with their absence of production, absence of cessation, quiescence from the start, and being naturally in a state of nirvana. Moreover, that wheel of doctrine turned by the Bhagavan is unsurpassable, does not provide an opportunity [for refutation], is of definitive meaning, and does not serve as a basis for dispute."

Answer: Samdhinirmocana sutra (The Sutra Elucidating the Condensed Meaning)

Translated from the Tibetan by John Powers
9. "Mahamati, since the ignorant and simple-minded, not knowing that the world is only something seen of the mind itself, cling to the multitudiousness of external objects, cling to the notions of beings and non-being, oneness and otherness, bothness and non-bothness, existence and non-existence, eternity and non-eternity, and think that they have a self-nature of their own, all of which rises from the discriminations of the mind and is perpetuated by habit-energy, and from which they are given over to false imagination."

Answer: Lankavatara sutra (Sutra of the the Descent into Lanka)

Translated by D. T. Suzuki
10. "Suppose there is a person who says the Tathagata has attained the supremely unexcelled bodhi. Subhuti, really there is no Dharma in the Buddha's attainment of the supremely unexcelled bodhi. Subhuti, in the Tathagata's attainment of the supremely unexcelled bodhi there is no truth or falsehood. This is why the Tathagata says that all of the Dharmas are the Buddha's Dharma. Subhuti, that which is called 'all of the Dharmas,' then, is not all of the Dharmas. This is why it is called 'all of the Dharmas.'"

Answer: Vajracchedika sutra (Diamond-Cutter sutra)

Translated from the Chinese by Charles Patton
Source: Author gti mug pa

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