Buddhism beIiefs

• What are the four sights

  death, old age, sickness, a holy man
• What did the Buddhas ascetic life consist of

  Living in a forest

  Sleeping on a bed of thorns

  Eating very little

  Lots of meditation
• Why did the Buddha leave the ascetic life

  He finally learnt that this was ineffective as he was to weak to meditate

  It wasn't helping him achieve enlightenment

  He understood the middle way
• What was the three watches of the night

  1. He gained knowledge of all his previous life's

  2. He understood karma and the wheel of samsara birth death and rebirth

  3. He understood that we suffer due to attachment and craving
• What are green three marks of existence

  Anicca, Annata, Dukkha
• What is Dukkha


  Suffering
• What are three forms of suffering

  Dukkha-Dukkha

  Viparinama- Dukkha

  Samkhara- dukkha
• What is Dukkha?


  Physical and mental pain
• What is Viparinama


  Suffering due to losing something good
• What is Samkhara


  Suffering due to craving
• What is anatta


  No fixed self or soul
• What are the 5 aggregates

  Form

  Sensation

  Perception

  Mental formation

  Consciousness
• What is annica


  The belief that everything changes
• What story can we use for Anicca

  Kisa gotame and the mustard seed
• What are the 4 noble truths?

  Dukkha, Samudaya, Nirodha, Magga
• What is Tanah


  Craving
• What does Samudaya mean?

  Craving is the cause of suffering
• What is Nirodha


  The end of suffering

  Suffering can be overcome by no longer being attached through suffering and craving
• What is Magga


  The middle way
• What is the 8 fold path


  View intention speech action livliehood effort concentration mindfulness
• What is dependant arising


  Idea that everything depends on supporting conditions - nothing is independent.

  Everything is in a constant process of change, due to everything being dependent on other things.
• What is the dhamma

  The bhuddas teachings
• What are the 5 aggregates

  Form, sensation, form, mental formation,consciousness
• What is sunyatta


  Emptiness, everything is empty of a fixed identity
• What is an arhat


  An arhat is enlightened, free from dukkha, and thus no longer attached to affairs of the world. Arhats are especially characterized by compassion.
• What is a Bodhisattva?

  a person who is able to reach nirvana but delays doing so out of compassion in order to save suffering beings.
• Difference between Theravada and Mahayana

  Theraveda=Nirvana as monks / Mahayana= helping others reach nirvana
• What is pure land Buddhism


  It is a form of Buddhism that says that those who lovingly and faithfully repeat the name of an enlightened being whose name is Amida Buddha, a Bodhisattva of Infinite Light, will be reborn in the Pure Land after death, and so be in an ideal position to realize nirvana.
• How do you reach the pure land

  Reciting scripture

  Meditating

  Worshiping amitabha Buddha

  Making offerings

  Changing amtibha Buddhas name
• What are the realms in Buddhism

  Realm of the gods, realm of the Demi gods, human realms, animal realm, realm of hungry ghost, hell realm.
• What where the temptations from mara


  He sent his daughters to seduce sidartha

  he sent his armies to attack sidartha

  he offered sidartha control over his whole kingdom

  mara himself tried to attack sidartha
• buddhist quote about refuge 


  “to the Buddha for refuge I go

  to the dhamma for refuge I go

  to the sangha for refuge I go“
• what are the 12 Nidannas

  q2 factors that illustrate the process of birth death and rebirth
• How was the pure land created and what does it show us 


  When amtibha Buddha became englightened he created a pure land Called sukhavati