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Religious Figures
YGK These Founders of Religious Traditions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The patriarch common to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, known for the covenant of the pieces and willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac | Abraham |
| The ancient Persian prophet who founded Zoroastrianism and taught about the benevolent Ahura Mazda and malevolent Angra Mainyu | Zoroaster (Zarathustra) |
| The founder of modern Jainism, regarded as the twenty-fourth tirthankara who achieved Kevala Jnana under a salah tree | Mahavira |
| The Jain principle of the prohibition of violence against living beings of any kind | Ahimsa |
| The founder of Buddhism, born as Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini, who encountered a sick man, corpse, and ascetic outside the palace | The Buddha |
| The tree under which the Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment | The Bodhi tree |
| The Buddhist concept of the endless cycle of death and rebirth, driven by attachment | Samsara |
| The Chinese philosopher whose teachings are the basis for Confucianism and were organized by his disciples into the Analects | Confucius |
| The ideas of li (decorum) and ren (benevolence), and the advocacy of "rectification of names" were created by this philosopher | Confucius |
| The prophet who founded Islam, born in Mecca, who had the Quran revealed to him by the angel Jibril (Gabriel) in the cave of Hira | Muhammad |
| The event during which Muhammad is said to have traveled on the horse Buraq to “the farthest mosque” and visited heaven | The Night Journey |
| The journey from Mecca to Medina that established the Islamic community | The Hijra |
| The founder of Sikhism and the first of the ten gurus of Sikhism, whose hymns formed the basis of the Guru Granth Sahib | Guru Nanak |
| The biographies of Guru Nanak that contain many miracle stories, such as his body disappearing and being replaced with flowers upon his death | Janamsakhis |
| The founder of Mormonism (Latter-Day Saints), who was directed by the angel Moroni to golden plates which he translated into the Book of Mormon | Joseph Smith |
| The city in Illinois where Joseph Smith moved his followers after being driven out of Independence, Missouri | Nauvoo |
| The founder of the Bahá’í faith, who declared himself the fulfillment of the Báb’s prophecy at the Garden of Ridvan | Bahá’u’lláh |
| Bahá’u’lláh's book of laws written while imprisoned in Acre (modern Israel) | Kitab-i-Aqdas |
| The founder of Christian Science, known for the book Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures | Mary Baker Eddy |
| The concept Eddy believed was the use of mental techniques to harm people | Malicious animal magnetism |
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