Karteikarten
Buddhism Unit Test - Terms and Names
Karten in diesem Stapel (33)
- 1Book of Basic Beliefs (Contain the teachings of Buddha.)Tripitaka (Three Baskets)
- 2The end of pain and suffering (nothingness).Nirvana
- 3Two main branches of BuddhismTheravada
Mahayana - 4Two sects of Buddhism (+locations)Zen (Japan)
Pureland (Tibeten) - 5The Middle Way of the Eightfold Path to SalvationRight Views or Understanding
Right Resolve or Thought
Right Speech
Right Conduct or Action
Right Livelihood
Right Effort
Right Mindfulness
Right Concentration - 6Siddartha Gautama's birth: (Date, Place, Parents, Circumstance)563 B.C. | Southern Nepal
King Suddhodana | Queen Maya
Siddartha was showered with the luxuries of living as a prince. - 7Siddartha's Wife and SonWife: Yashodhara
Son: Rahula - 8Siddartha's abandonment of wife and son to seek religious enlightenment as a monk.The Great Renunciation
- 9Tree under which The Buddha renounced both his family life and ascetic practices.The Bodhi Tree
- 10Location and name of the Buddha's First SermonSermon given at Benares to five ascetic monks.
Called the "turning wheel of Dharma" - 11Death (Place, Age, Circumstance)Died in Kusinagara.
80 years old.
Died between two trees. - 12Three Jewels of Buddhism (What do they mean/represent?) (What are they?)Represents "The Vows of Buddhists"
1. I take refuge in the Buddha
2. I take refuge in the Dharma
3. I take refuge in the Sangha - 13Location of Mahayana BuddhismChina, Japan, Tibet, Mongolia
- 14Location of Theravada BuddhismBurma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand
- 15Religious Orthodoxy of: Mahayana BuddhismAccepts changes made to the religion after Buddha's death.
- 16Religious Orthodoxy of: Theravada BuddhismStick to the original teachings of the Buddha
- 17View of Siddartha Gautama: Mahayana BuddhismSiddartha is one of many Buddhas.
- 18View of Siddartha Gautama: TheravdaSiddartha is the best Buddha that all of us should follow.
- 19Who can achieve Nirvana? Mahayana BuddhismAnyone can achieve Nirvana.
- 20Who can achieve Nirvana? Theravada BuddhismOnly monks and nuns can achieve Nirvana because they live monastic lives.
- 21Branch's main value: MahayanaCompassion - Main value is to help others. Buddha's best "holy souls" (guides) come back to help other people achieve Nirvana.
- 22Branch's main value: TheravadaWisdom - The Monk experiences Nirvana fully when he/she dies.
- 23ArhatA "worthy one" who has reached nirvana and is no longer available to followers.
- 24Accepts of Prayers and Rituals: MahayanaYes
- 25Acceptance of Prayers and Rituals: TheravadaReject prayers and rituals.
- 26Zen Buddhism: Values1. Simplicity: Do what you do with simplicity, grace, and digntiy.
2. Nature is central:Humans are the outgrowth of it.
3. Experience: Focus on intuitive experiential understanding in life.
4. Discipline - Be deliberate with tasks. - 27KoanAchieving enlightenment through intellectually stimulating and insightful paradoxical problems; people are moved beyond rational thought and answer in an intuitive way.
- 28Haiku (Three line, seventeen syllables)Poem used in meditation, with a focus on nature.
- 29DukkhaLife is unsatisfactory and full of suffering.
- 30SamudayaSuffering is caused by people's greed and craving for things.
- 31NirodhaIf people overcame their selfish desires and stopped craving, then dukkha would disappear.
- 32MaggaThe solution to overcoming desire; by following the Middle Way laid down in the Eightfold Path.
- 33Theravadan Scriptures TRIPITAKA 'The three baskets' (Name each basket)1. Vinaya Pitaka (Discipline)
2. Sutta Pitaka - (Doctrine)
3. Abhidamma Pitaka - (Philosophy)