Question: Some schools venerate certain texts as religious what?
Answer: objects

Question: Unlike most religions, Buddhism has no single central what?
Answer: text

Question: Tibetan Buddhists have not even translated most of the what?
Answer: āgamas

Question: Some scholars say there is no universally accepted common what?
Answer: core

Question: What has been seen by some as a hinderance to understanding Buddhist philosophy?
Answer: size and complexity of the Buddhist canons

Question: In Sri Lanka, what was determined to be the best unifying scripture?
Answer: Dhammapada

Question: There have been attempts to create a single text with all the main ideas of what religion?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: condensed study texts where created in what tradition?
Answer: Theravada

Question: Goddard collected mainly what type of Buddhist scripture?
Answer: Zen

Question: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar attempted to create a single combined document with all Buddhist principles and called it?
Answer: The Buddha and His Dhamma

Question: What means "three baskets"?
Answer: Pāli Tipitaka

Question: What does the "three baskets" refer to?
Answer: the Vinaya Pitaka, the Sutta Pitaka, and the Abhidhamma Pitaka

Question: What contains disciplinary rules for Buddhist Monks and nuns?
Answer: Vinaya Pitaka

Question: What contains discourses ascribed to Gautama Buddha?
Answer: the Sutta Pitaka

Question: What contains material ofen described as systematic expositions of the Gautama Buddha teachings?
Answer: Abhidhamma Pitaka

Question: What is the only Tipitaka to survive intact in its original language?
Answer: Pāli Tipitaka

Question: Is is said that some early schools of buddhism had how many pitakas?
Answer: five or seven

Question: Which monk presided after the death of the Buddha?
Answer: Mahākāśyapa

Question: What was the goal of the council?
Answer: to record the Buddha's teachings

Question: the vinaya was recited by?
Answer: Upāli

Question: Who was the Buddha's personal attendant?
Answer: Ānanda

Question: Ananda was called upon to recite what?
Answer: dhamma

Question: Much of the material in the Canon is not specifically what?
Answer: Theravadin

Question: Who may have added texts to the Canon for some time?
Answer: The Theravadins

Question: What are considered the original teachings of the Buddha?
Answer: Mahayana sutras

Question: What is a very broad genre of Buddhist scripture?
Answer: Mahayana sutras

Question: What teaching was criticized by Nagarjuna?
Answer: Sarvastivada Abhidharma

Question: What sutras are reserved for those who follow the bodhisattva path?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: What does Mahayana mean?
Answer: the Great Vehicle

Question: What path is described as being built upon the motivation to liberate all living beings?
Answer: bodhisattva path

Question: What sutras were transmitted in secret?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: What sutras could have been preserved in non-human worlds?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: What tradition says that sutras might have come from other Buddhas or Bodhisattvas?
Answer: Mahayana tradition

Question: How many Mahayana sutras have survivied in Sanskrit or in Chinese or Tibetan translations?
Answer: six hundred

Question: What buddhism recognizes sutras of Chinese origin?
Answer: East Asian Buddhism

Question: When did Mahayana sutras start to influence the behavior of mainstream buddhists in India?
Answer: after the 5th century CE

Question: What was the pejorative label for those that rejected Mahayana sutras?
Answer: Hinayana

Question: What school does not include the Mahayava scriptures in its canon?
Answer: the Theravada

Question: The modern Theravada school stablished itself in what country?
Answer: Sri Lanka

Question: What Mahayana related label is considered derogatory?
Answer: hinayana

Question: The mahayana occasionally referred to early Buddhism as what?
Answer: Hinayana

Question: What term was more politically correct term for the word Hinayana?
Answer: Śrāvakayāna

Question: What provides chances for comparative study with a large range of subjects?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: Buddhism's emphasis on the Middle Way provides a guideline for what?
Answer: ethics

Question: Buddism has what kind of parallels withother systems of thought?
Answer: moral and spiritual

Question: Buddhism had similiar tenets to what other common religion?
Answer: Christianity

Question: Buddhist concept of dependent origination has been compared to what modern thought?
Answer: scientific

Question: What school of thought is questioned on whether or not it is a religion?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: What is often referred to as a religion by many sources?
Answer: Buddhism

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Question: What company produces American idol?
Answer: 19 Entertainment

Question: What year did American Idol begin airing?
Answer: 2002

Question: What British show is American Idols format based on?
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Question: What year did FOX announce the cancellation of American Idol?
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Question: What show in New Zealand was the inspiration for the British Series Pop Idol?
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Question: Who was the creator of British Series Pop Idol?
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Question: What year did Pop Idol make its television debut?
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