Question: According to Genshin, who has the power to destroy karma?
Answer: Amitābha

Question: What Buddhism says that salvation is unattainable?
Answer: Theravada Buddhism

Question: Who has the power to destroy bad karma?
Answer: Amitābha

Question: What type of sutra is the Lotus Sutra?
Answer: Mahayana

Question: Some mantras are used for cutting off what type of karma?
Answer: negative

Question: Who was the Japanese Pure Land teacher?
Answer: Genshin

Question: According to Genshin, whats has the power to destroy karma?
Answer: Amitābha

Question: What is the process in which beings go through cycles of lifetimes as many forms of sentient life?
Answer: Rebirth

Question: Which doctrine denies the concept of a permanent self or soul?
Answer: The doctrine of anattā (Sanskrit anātman)

Question: In Buddhism, rebirth into consecutive lives is determined by what?
Answer: the laws of cause and effect

Question: Sentient life according to Buddhism runs between what two points?
Answer: from conception to death.

Question: The laws of cause and effect can also be called?
Answer: karma

Question: What is the name for the process of a succession of lifetimes?
Answer: Rebirth

Question: What doctrine rejects the idea of permanent self?
Answer: anatta

Question: "dependent arising" is the meaning of what word?
Answer: pratītyasamutpāda

Question: Hinduism and Christianity use what term for a permanent self?
Answer: eternal soul

Question: Rebirth into the Śuddhāvāsa Worlds or Pure Abodes can only be attained by who?
Answer: skilled Buddhist practitioners known as anāgāmis (non-returners)

Question: Rebirth into the formless realms can only be attained by who?
Answer: those who can meditate on the arūpajhānas, the highest object of meditation

Question: How many planes of existence are there?
Answer: 31

Question: What are the higher heavens called?
Answer: Pure Abodes

Question: What are skilled Buddhists called?
Answer: anāgāmis

Question: What is another name for Ārūpyadhātu?
Answer: formless realms

Question: What is the highest object of meditation called?
Answer: arūpajhānas

Question: How many planes of existence?
Answer: 31

Question: Skilled buddhist practictioners that can get to the higher heavens are known as what?
Answer: anāgāmis

Question: What is the highest object of meditation?
Answer: arūpajhānas

Question: What does arupyadhatu mean?
Answer: formless realms

Question: There is a transitional state between one life and the next according to what branches of Buddhism?
Answer: East Asian and Tibetan

Question: What branch of Buddhism rejects that there is a transitional state between lives?
Answer: Theravada

Question: Passages in what teaching support the idea that the Buddha taught of a stage between lives?
Answer: Samyutta Nikaya of the Pali Canon

Question: What is the state called between lives?
Answer: bardo

Question: Which major part of Buddhism rejects bardo?
Answer: Theravada

Question: What book discusses bardo?
Answer: Samyutta Nikaya

Question: Other than Tibetan Buddhism, what other Buddhism supports bardo?
Answer: East Asian

Question: There is an intermediate state between one life and the next according to what Buddism?
Answer: East Asian and Tibetan

Question: What type of Theravada rejects the intermediate state idea?
Answer: orthodox

Question: Some passages of what Canon support the idea of intermediate stages?
Answer: Pali

Question: What is considered to be central to the teachings of Buddhism?
Answer: the Four Noble Truths

Question: What do the Four Noble Truths explain?
Answer: the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome

Question: What teachings are the most important to Buddhism?
Answer: the Four Noble Truths

Question: What part of Dukkha deals with pain?
Answer: suffering

Question: What is considered central to the teachings of Buddhism?
Answer: Four Noble Truths

Question: The four truths explain the nature of what?
Answer: dukkha

Question: What does the first of the Four Noble Truths explain?
Answer: the nature of dukkha

Question: What is Dukkha?
Answer: "suffering", "anxiety", "unsatisfactoriness", "unease", etc.

Question: What does the first truth cover?
Answer: Dukkha

Question: What is another word for Dukkha?
Answer: suffering

Question: What is another nature of Dukkha?
Answer: anxiety

Question: How many aspects are there to Dukkha?
Answer: three

Question: Dukkha can be translated as what word in regards to unhappiness?
Answer: unsatisfactoriness

Question: Suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness, and unease is the translation of what word?
Answer: Dukkha

Question: How many aspects does dukkha have?
Answer: three

Question: What does the second of the Four Noble Truths explain?
Answer: that the origin of dukkha can be known

Question: What is the origin of dukkha?
Answer: craving (Pali: tanha) conditioned by ignorance (Pali: avijja)

Question: What is the third of the Four Noble Truths explain?
Answer: the complete cessation of dukkha is possible

Question: What is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths explain?
Answer: identifies a path to this cessation

Question: What is the second truth?
Answer: dukkha can be known.

Question: How is the meaning of Dukkha explained?
Answer: craving

Question: What is a contributing factor to Dukkha?
Answer: ignorance

Question: The second truth is?
Answer: the origin of dukkha can be known

Question: The origin of dukkha is explained as craving conditioned by what?
Answer: ignorance

Question: The root cause of dukkha is identified as ignorance of what?
Answer: true nature of things

Question: The third noble truth is that the complete cessation of what is possible?
Answer: dukkha

Question: What is the fourth of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths?
Answer: The Noble Eightfold Path

Question: What is the purpose of the Noble Eightfold Path?
Answer: lead to the cessation of dukkha

Question: What are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path?
Answer: Right View (or Right Understanding), Right Intention (or Right Thought), Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration

Question: The Noble Eightfold Path is which of Buddha's Truths?
Answer: the fourth

Question: The fourth truth consists of how many factors?
Answer: Eight

Question: What is the end goal of the Fourth Truth?
Answer: the cessation of dukkha

Question: What is one of the eight factors?
Answer: Right Action

Question: The Noble Eightfold Path is which Noble Truth?
Answer: the fourth

Question: The noble Eightfold path is a set of how many inerconnected factors?
Answer: eight

Question: When the eight factors are developed together, is leads to the cessation of what?
Answer: dukkha

Question: Who describes the Noble Eightfold Path as "a mandala of interconnected factors that support and moderate each other."?
Answer: Ajahn Sucitto

Question: How are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path to be understood?
Answer: as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour

Question: What can one's behaviour be divided into?
Answer: mental, spoken, and bodily

Question: Who describes the path as "a mandala of interconnected factor that support and moderate each other"?
Answer: Ajahn Sucitto

Question: During his search for enlightenment, Gautama combined what teachings?
Answer: the yoga practice of his teacher Kalama with what later became known as "the immeasurables"

Question: What was the new kind of human invented by Gautama?
Answer: one without egotism

Question: What are the Four Immeasurable Minds also known as?
Answer: brahmaviharas, divine abodes, or simply as four immeasurables

Question: What is the best known of the four immeasurables?
Answer: mettā or loving-kindness meditation

Question: The Four Immeasurables are taught as a form of meditation that cultivates what?
Answer: wholesome attitudes towards all sentient beings