Question: In theravada buddhism, bodhi and what term have the same meaning?
Answer: nirvana

Question: What term is used for the complete nirvana attained by the arahant at death?
Answer: parinirvana

Question: Who is a fully awakened being who has purified his mind of the three poisons of desire, aversion, and ignorance?
Answer: a Buddha

Question: A Buddha is no longer bound by what?
Answer: Samsara

Question: What do unawakend people experience?
Answer: suffering

Question: How many Buddhas are considered to have existed in the Pali Canon?
Answer: 28

Question: A Theravada and Mahayana belief is that the next Buddha will be one named what?
Answer: Maitreya

Question: Mahayana has many Buddhas of what origin?
Answer: celestial

Question: A person can awaken from the "sleep of ignorance" by acknowledging the true nature of what?
Answer: reality

Question: At the end of the cycle of rebirth a person is called what?
Answer: arahants

Question: Nirvana and what term carry the same meaning?
Answer: Bodhi

Question: What is the term for extinction of only hatred and greed, with residue of delusion?
Answer: anagami

Question: In the Mahayana, who is thought to be an omnipresent being?
Answer: Buddha

Question: Who is thought to be beyond the range and reach of thought?
Answer: Buddha

Question: In what sutras are the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha viewed as One?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: Buddha's death is seen as an illusion, as he is living in other planes of what?
Answer: existence

Question: Who is permitted to offer "new truths" based on Buddhas input?
Answer: monks

Question: What is the term for the idea of ultimately nothing has existance?
Answer: śūnyatā

Question: Who are enlightened people who vow to continue being reborn?
Answer: bodhisattvas

Question: What is characterized by the deep truts in the "other-power" of Amitabha Buddha
Answer: Pure Land

Question: What is perhaps the most faith-oriented for of Buddhism?
Answer: Pure Land

Question: What Buddha vowed to rescue all beings from samsaric suffering?
Answer: Amitabha

Question: Who is believed to have achieved enlightenment first?
Answer: Gautama Buddha

Question: What is the term for the stretch of history during which people rmember and practice the teachings of the earliest known buddha?
Answer: A Buddha era

Question: Who is the Buddha of this Buddha era?
Answer: Gautama Buddha

Question: Who taught directly or indirectly to all other Buddhas?
Answer: Gautama Buddha

Question: Who believes there are innumerable other Buddhas in other universes?
Answer: Mahayana Buddhists

Question: What buddhist belief says that Buddhas come one at a time and not within other eras?
Answer: Theravada

Question: What form of Buddhism has declined to the point where few are capable of following the path?
Answer: Pure Land

Question: What does Bodhisattva mean?
Answer: enlightenment being

Question: What is the term for the spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all beings?
Answer: bodhicitta

Question: What term means "great vehicle"?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: What is an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayana?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: The Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra is an important text of what type?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: What buddhism encourages everyone to become bodhisattvas?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: What is the idea there the practitioner promises to work for the complete enlightenment of all beings by practicing the six paramitas?
Answer: bodhisattva vow

Question: What are the six perfections under Mahayana teachings?
Answer: dāna, śīla, kṣanti, vīrya, dhyāna, and prajñā

Question: Which Dalai Lama cites Shantideva's famous saying?
Answer: the 14th Dalai Lama

Question: Devotion is an important part of the practice of most what?
Answer: Buddhists

Question: What are the devotional practices?
Answer: bowing, offerings, pilgrimage, and chanting

Question: Buddhism traditionally incorporates states of what type of absorption?
Answer: meditative

Question: The most acient yogic ideas is found in the early sermons of who?
Answer: the Buddha

Question: The difference between the Buddha's teaching and the yoga presented in what what type of texts is significant?
Answer: Brahminic

Question: According to the Buddha event he highest meditative state is not what?
Answer: liberating

Question: Meditation was an aspect of the practice of who?
Answer: the yogis

Question: In Buddhism, what must be developed at all times?
Answer: mindfulness and clear awareness

Question: Religious knowledge is also known as what?
Answer: vision

Question: What type of techniques were shared with other traditions of his day?
Answer: meditative

Question: There is an idea where ethics are causally related to the attainment of what?
Answer: transcendent wisdom

Question: What are probably the earliest texts describing meditation techniques?
Answer: Buddhist texts

Question: What describes meditative states exising before the Buddha?
Answer: Buddhist texts

Question: What two items were written after the rise of Buddhism?
Answer: Upanishads

Question: In pre-buddhist early Brahminic texts there is no evidence for what?
Answer: meditation

Question: The upanishads statements reflect what type of tradition?
Answer: contemplative

Question: What contains evidence for a contemplative tradition?
Answer: Nasadiya Sukta

Question: What is the first step in a school of Buddhism?
Answer: the Three Jewels

Question: What mentions taking refuge on behalf of young or unborn children?
Answer: Majjhima Nikaya

Question: What type of Buddhism adds a fourth refuge?
Answer: Tibetan

Question: The Three Jewels are preceived as possessed of an eternal and unchanging what?
Answer: essence.

Question: What has an irreversable effect?
Answer: The Three Jewels

Question: Who presented himself as a model?
Answer: Gautama Buddha

Question: What offers a refuge by providing guidelines for the alleviation of suffering?
Answer: Dharma

Question: What provides refuge by preserving the authentic teachings of the Buddha?
Answer: Sangha

Question: What is an action committed through the body and involves intentional effort?
Answer: Śīla

Question: Sila is the second what?
Answer: pāramitā

Question: What keeps the cultivator from rebirth in the four realms of existance?
Answer: keeping the precepts

Question: What is the foundation of Samadhi/Bhavana?
Answer: Śīla

Question: What promotes not only the peace of mind but also peace in the community?
Answer: keeping the precepts

Question: What does sila refer to?
Answer: overall principles of ethical behavior

Question: Lay people tend to live by the five what?
Answer: precepts

Question: Schools can undertake eight precepts, which add basic what?
Answer: asceticism.

Question: Precepts are not created as imperatives, but as what?
Answer: training rules

Question: The cultivation of dana and what kind of conduct refine consciousness?
Answer: ethical

Question: Even if there is no further Buddhist practice, what heavens is still likely?
Answer: lower

Question: Of the eight precepts which one is on sexual misconduct?
Answer: third

Question: What is the third strict precept on sexual misconduct?
Answer: a precept of celibacy

Question: How many precepts are on the list?
Answer: ten

Question: In the complete list of precepts, which one is partitioned into two?
Answer: seventh

Question: How many basic precepts are there for monastics?
Answer: the ten precepts

Question: What is the specific moral code for monks and nuns?
Answer: vinaya

Question: How many rules dows the patimokkha have?
Answer: 227

Question: What are the scriptures on vinaya called?
Answer: vinayapitaka

Question: Regarding the monastic rules, the Buddha reminds his hearers that it is the spirit that what?
Answer: counts

Question: The rules themselves are designed to assure a satisfying what?
Answer: life

Question: The rules are a perfect springboard for what?
Answer: higher attainments