Quiz on Buddhism with Answers

RELIGION Quiz

Quiz on Buddhism

by Santosh Kumar Biswa, Damphu Central School, Bhutan

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1.      What are the Noble Eightfold Paths according to Buddhism?

2.      What are the three characteristics of life according to Lord Buddha?

3.      What are Five Precepts?

4.      What are Five Precepts?

5.      What is the Right Speech according to Buddha?

6.      What is Right Thought according to Buddha?

7.      What is the Sangha of the Triple Gem?

8.      What are the Seven Factors of Enlightenment?

9.      What are Mounds called in India?

10.  What are Mounds called in Sri Lanka?

11.  What are Mounds called in Burma, Thailand, China and Tibet?

12.  Why were Mounds built?

13.  Where was Buddha born?

14.  Where did the Buddha attain Supreme Enlightenment?

15.  Where did the Buddha give his first discourse?

16.  From where did Buddha attain Parinibbana?

17.  What do you mean by Arhant?

18.  What are ten attributes of an Arhant?

19.  What is Buddhism?

20.  What is another term used for Triple Gem?

21.  What are the Three Jewels?

22.  What are Four Noble Truths?

23.  What are Pure States of Mind according to the Buddha’s teaching?

24.  When was the Mahayana scriptures written?

25.  In what literary languages were Ancient Buddhist scripture and doctrine developed?

26.  What is Pali language?

27.  What is Theravada Buddhism?

28.  When was the Theravada scriptures first written?

29.  Where was the Theravada scriptures first written?

30.  On what materials were the Theravada scriptures first written?

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Answer

1. The Noble Eightfold Paths are:

·         Right understanding (right view),

·         Right Thought (right intention),

·         Right speech,

·         Right action,

·         Right livelihood,

·         Right effort,

·         Right mindfulness, and

·         Right concentration.

2. Impermanence, Not-self, and Suffering

3. It is the five rules of conduct given by Buddha to get

    started on the Path of peace, the Noble Eightfold Path.

4. The Five Precepts are:

·         Do not harm living beings or kill intentionally,

·         Do not steal or take what is not given,

·         Do not lie and use unkind speech,

·         Do not be unchaste (sexual misconduct), and

·         Do not take drugs or drink intoxicants.

5. Right Speech is the abstention from false speech, tale-

     bearing, abusive speech, and gossip

6. Right Thought is the thought of renunciation, goodwill,

    and not harming

7. A spiritual community of the Buddha’s followers who

   have realized the Four Noble Truths

8. The Seven Factors of Enlightenment are:

·         Mindfulness,

·         Investigation of the dharma,

·         Energy,

·         Rapture or happiness,

·         Calm,

·         Concentration, and

·         Equanimity.

9. Stupas

10. Dagobas

11. Pagodas

12. To hold relics of the Buddha or his chief disciples and to

       mark important events from life of the Buddha and his

      students

13. Lumbini, Nepal

14. Bodhgaya, India

15. Sarnath, ancient Issioatana near Varanasi

16. Kusinara

17. A Buddhist who had attained nirvana by completing his

      moral and spiritual training

18. The ten attributes of an Arhant are:

·         Right understanding,

·         Right Thought,

·         Right speech,

·         Right action,

·         Right livelihood,

·         Right effort,

·         Right mindfulness,

·         Right concentration,

·         Right knowledge, and

·         Right deliverance.

19. Religion and philosophy developed from the teachings

      of the Buddha Gautama

20. The Three Jewels

21. The Three Jewels are:

·         Buddha (the teacher),

·         Dharma (The teaching of Buddha), and

·         Sangha (Noble or Spiritual)

22. The Four Noble Truths are:

·         The Noble Truths of Suffering,

·         The Noble Truths of the origin of Suffering,

·         The Noble Truths of the End of Suffering, and

·         The Noble Truths of the Way Leading to the End of Suffering

23. Loving-kindness, compassion, Sympathetic joy, and

      Equanimity

24. Between 100 A.D and 300 A.D in Sanskrit

25. Ancient India, Pali and Sanskrit

26. An ancient Prakrit language (derived from Sanskrit) that

      is the scriptural and liturgical language of Theravada

      Buddhism

27. Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation

      through our own efforts; a conservative form of     

      Buddhism that adheres to Pali scriptures and the non-

      theistic ideal of self purification to nirvana

28. 100 B.C

29. Ceylon, Sri Lanka

30. On Plant leaves in Pali language