Answer: Prajñaparamita sutras
The Prajñaparamita sutras, dating from the 1st century CE and afterward, are traditionally said to be the word of the Buddha concealed for later discovery.
From Quiz: Mahayana Buddhism
Answer: Gautama
Gautama was a self-renounced prince from Northern India around 500BC who taught the method of liberation through meditation.
From Quiz: Buddhist Meditation
Answer: a prince
He is supposed to have lived from 563 till 483 BC. He left his father King Shuddodana's Palace in Kapilavastu when he was thirty.
From Quiz: The World Of Buddhism
Answer: Shariputra
"The Heart Sutra" is the most widely chanted sutra in Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism.
From Quiz: Buddhism Glossary
Answer: An upsided statement
A Koan is a tangential case, derived from the Chinese word: kung an. It was engendered by Hsueh Tou and Yung Wu, a school of Chan Buddhism (960-1024 AD), and disseminated to the Rinzai schools of Japan.
From Quiz: Blue Cliff Records
Answer: transcendent wisdom
From Quiz: Buddhism and the 8-Fold Path
Answer: ignorance, attachment, anger
The Buddhist path of happiness lies in freeing ourselves from the cyclical existence caused by ignorance and karma. We do not understand who we are, how we exist and other phenomena...hence from ignorance we project and fantasize a simulacral reality, which is independent of reality. This illusion leads to attachment and anger, when reality conflicts with our idealized simulacra of the world.
From Quiz: Advanced Buddhism
Answer: Shri Pada
Shri Pada means 'Sacred Footprint'. This peak is also sacred to Hindus who call it Siva's Peak. It was called Adam's Peak by Muslims, and is revered even by some Christians.
From Quiz: Random Facts About Buddhism
Answer: Siddhartha Gautama
Shakyamuni was also a name appointed to Buddha. He was a prince of the Shakya family.
From Quiz: Basic Facts About Buddhism
Answer: The collective teachings of the Buddha
The word Dharma has more than one meaning but in Buddhism it simply refers to the teachings of the Buddha.
One of the oldest known Buddhist symbols is the Dharma Wheel, or Dharmacakra. The eight spokes represent the Eightfold Path. The parts of the wheel symbolize various aspects of Buddhism; the hub represents discipline, the spokes represent wisdom and the rim represents concentration.
From Quiz: Buddhism 101
Answer: Bhutan
The food habits, clothing and language of Bhutan have close resemblances to those of Tibet, with only small differences. The scripts used for Buddhist teachings are Ucjan and Dzonkha, respectively, but they are nearly identical. Both countries follow the Mahayana tradition of Buddhism. Almost all Buddhists in Bhutan are followers of Karkgyud pa, a school which was established in Tibet. The monks' robes are also identical in the two lands.
From Quiz: The Graded Path in Tibetan Buddhism
Answer: Wang Chang
The mightiest King of Tibet, Srong Tsen Gampo, was engaged in war with Nepal and China at the time. China and Nepal each had to give a royal princess to the King of Tibet. Both the Chinese princess, Wang Chang, and the Nepalese princess, Bhrikuti, brought statues of Buddha with them to Tibet.
From Quiz: Buddhism in Tibet
Answer: Sarnath
The first sermon on the eradication of suffering was delivered to ascetics in a deer park at Sarnath, a place about 10 km northeast of the city of Varanasi.
From Quiz: Buddhist Meditation
Answer: nirvana
Mahayana is the Higher Vehicle ; atman, which is etymologically related to German Atem and Dutch adem (breath), means soul. Karma is somehow the sort of behaviour and actions that lead to a person's reincarnation. To break through the eternal circle of reincarnations and to reach the happy state of tranquility that is called nirvana, one must break through one's karma.
Note: though nirvana seems to be the more frequent English orthography, instances of nirwana are not unusual either.
From Quiz: The World Of Buddhism
Answer: Bodhisattva
From Quiz: Buddhism Glossary
Answer: Isn't that annoying?
Hakuin was the most famous Japanese Zen Monk and produced 500 pages of commentary on the 'Blue Cliff Records'.
From Quiz: Blue Cliff Records
Answer: jewels
The three Jewels help to rid the defilements of the subtle mind. Negative emotions and their emotions. Sangha is a community of people who encourage practice or Dharma.
From Quiz: Advanced Buddhism
Answer: hinayana
From Quiz: Random Facts About Buddhism
Answer: Impermanence, suffering and egolessness
Only the understanding and mastery of impermanence, suffering and egolessness can bring peace and the end of suffering.
Impermanence refers to the fact that all conditional things are in a state of flux.
Suffering and dissatisfaction comes from craving pleasure or avoiding pain and from trying to cling to things that are impermanent.
Egolessness refers to the denial of a separate permanent "I". Buddha reasoned that there was no permanent soul because all things that exist are subject to change.
From Quiz: Buddhism 101
Answer: Shantarakshita
Shantarakshita was the Vice Chancellor, or Chief Abbot, of one of the highest seats of learning of Tantric Buddhism, Vikramshila in India (near the modern city of Bhagalpur in Bihar). Although he was the first invited to establish the religion of Buddha, the attempt was unsuccessful. With his arrival, Tibet was beset by natural calamities, like thunderstorms, famines and so on. It was seen as the wrath of the gods of the pre-Buddhist religion of Tibet, Bon.
From Quiz: Buddhism in Tibet
Answer: Pali
The language of Pali is now a dead language used today mainly through interpretation of the teachings of Gautama.
From Quiz: Buddhist Meditation
Answer: in the Himalayas
Gautama was born as a member of an aristocratic family that ruled the small Kingdom of the Sakyas in the foothills of the Himalayas.
The exact place of birth is supposed to have been Lumbini. Kusinagara is where he died. Buddh Gaya is the place of his Enlightenment.
Sarnath is where he gave his first sermon. Sravasti, Vaisali, Rajagrha were other important places in the Buddha's career.
From Quiz: The World Of Buddhism
Answer: Dharmakaya
From Quiz: Buddhism Glossary
Answer: Iron
A quote by the venerable Nansen...it follows as thus: 'Has this happened to anyone? A clever lad loses his profits, even if uninhibited one cannot escape being taken in tow. But tell me, where is the mix-up?'
From Quiz: Blue Cliff Records
Answer: Arhant's way
From Quiz: Buddhism and the 8-Fold Path
Answer: compassion
From Quiz: Advanced Buddhism
Answer: arhat
From Quiz: Random Facts About Buddhism
Answer: 8
The eight-fold path includes various moral stances that a practitioner of the religion ought to follow.
From Quiz: Basic Facts About Buddhism
Answer: The person who successfully introduced Buddhism to Tibet
Padmasambhava established the Nying Ma sect of Buddhism in Tibet. This is the only sect of Buddhism established by an Indian in Tibet. Tibet has four major sects of Buddhism and the other three, Kargyu, Sakya and Gelug, were established by Tibetans. The XIVth Dalai Lama, exiled to India, belonged to the Gelug sect of Buddhism in Tibet.
From Quiz: Buddhism in Tibet
Answer: it is not certain
Although scholars are not entirely sure what language(s) he did speak. Most likely he taught in Magadhi, another Prakrit.
From Quiz: Basic Buddhism
Answer: Nagarjuna
The founder of Madhyamaka (if there is any), Nagarjuna is traditionally said to have retrieved the Prajñaparamita sutras from the serpent beings (nagas) into whose hands the Buddha entrusted them for safe-keeping.
From Quiz: Mahayana Buddhism
Answer: Vipassana
Vipassana is still taught today. It was lost in India through time, religious banishment and misinterpretations but was maintained in its purity in modern day Myanmar from where it spread again to India and the world.
From Quiz: Buddhist Meditation
Answer: The Eightfold Path
From Quiz: Buddhism Glossary
Answer: Karma
Karma is being every second. As we think, so we become... the good thing is that negative karma can be reversed.
From Quiz: Buddhism and the 8-Fold Path
Answer: Amitabha
The name Amitabha means something to the effect of 'Buddha of Infinite Light'.
From Quiz: Random Facts About Buddhism
Answer: Karma
It is said that the karma you acquire in one life will affect the results of your next life!
From Quiz: Basic Facts About Buddhism
Answer: The Four Noble Truths
The Four Noble Truths are:
The truth of suffering
The truth of the cause of suffering
The truth of the cessation of suffering
The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering
buddhanet.net explains the connection between a doctor and the Buddha with the following analogy:
"
A Doctor tells us / The Buddha tells us the truth about
What is wrong with us / The presence of suffering
What is the cause of our illness / The cause of suffering
That there is a cure / The end of suffering
What we have to do to get well / The way to the end of suffering"
From Quiz: Buddhism 101
Answer: Three
The three stages are as follows: Renunciation, Altruistic State of Mind and Correct View.
From Quiz: The Graded Path in Tibetan Buddhism
Answer: As His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama of Tibet
Tenzing Gyatso is the ordained name of the XIVth Dalai Lama. (In Tibet, every newborn is given an ordained name by the nearby monastery.) Interestingly, the Dalai Lama belongs to the Gelug Sect although he is not the head of this sect. The head of the Gelug Sect is the throne holder of Tsong Khapa, founder of the Gelug Sect, and is called Ganden Thi Pa.
From Quiz: Buddhism in Tibet
Answer: Idealism
Most early European scholars interpreted Madhyamaka as a form of nihilism; Nietzsche is a good example and more recently T. Wood. Robert Magliola and C. W. Huntington have offered deconstructive readings. B. K. Matilal interprets Madhyamaka as Kantian idealism. For better and for worse, numerous other comparisons are available in modern scholarship.
From Quiz: Mahayana Buddhism
