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Buddhism
World Religions
Question | Answer |
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How does Buddhism begin? | With a man |
How was Buddha concieved? | A white elephant in Queen Maya's dream |
What is the Buddha's name | Prince Siddartha Guautama |
What were the four passing sights | old man, sick man, dying man, and a monk |
what was the name of his son and wife | Princess Yasodhara and Rahula |
where and when was the Buddha born | 563 BCE in Napal |
when did the Buddha die? | 483 |
when did the Buddha go to the great going forth? | age 29 |
Buddha as an ascetic? | he nearly died of malnutrition |
How long was his path of renunciation? | 29 years |
Who offered him the rice? | Sujata |
How many of his friends did he abandon? | 5 |
How long did he meditate under the bodhi tree? | 49 days |
What did Mara tempt him with? | beautiful women |
What did he turn the flaming rocks into? | flowers |
What was Mara's final temptation? | offered him nirvana? |
Why did Buddha not go? | He said "some will understand." |
Who are you? | I am awake. |
Meaning of Budh= | Awake |
Where was the Buddha's first sermon? | deer park |
What are the 4 noble truths? | Life is suffering, the cause of suffering is desire, to end suffering avoid desires, to avoid desires follow the eightfhold noble path. |
Eighth fold path | Right view, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindulness, right concentration |
What is the middle way of Buddhism? | neither the path of desire nor reincarnation |
What are the 3 marks of existence? | 1) suffering 2)anatman 3) impermanence or anicaa |
nirvana | goal of Buddhist. to blow out as fire ceases to draw. |
How long did Buddhist teach? | 45 years |
How did he die? | His friend Cunda gave him food poisoning |
Primary Buddhist Text | Pali canon/Tipitaka/ 3 baskets |
Lotus sutra | the most significant of the Mahayana sutras |
3 jewels of Buddhism | I take refuge in the Buddha, I take refuge in the dharma , I take refuge in the sangha |
Nagarjuna | 2nd Buddha |
Meaning of Lao Tzu | old fellow |
Legendary founder of taosim | Lao Tzu in 604 BCE |
Discern the Tao | the way of being in the world |
Founder of Confucianism | Confucius |
five fundamental relationships | 1. Children look up to parents. 2. wife looks up to husband. 3.younger siblings look up to older sibling 4. younger friend looks up to older friend. 5. subject looks up to ruler. |
What does Confucius say? | When you are not yet able to serve people, how can you serve the spirits?You do not understand life, how can you understand death? Heaven has appointed me to teach the doctrines.There is heaven- it knows me. He who offends the gods has no one to pray to. |
Continued | Humanity forms one body with heaven, Earth, and myriad things. |