Question: The Mahasanghika places the breakup at what time?
Answer: 100 BCE

Question: The major schism was between the Sthaviras and what other group?
Answer: Mahasanghikas

Question: The Dipavamsa says that the losing party broke away in protest and formed what?
Answer: Mahasanghika

Question: The Mahasanghikas argued that the Sthaviras were trying to expand what?
Answer: the vinaya

Question: Who gave rise to the Theravada school?
Answer: Sthaviras

Question: Monks following different schools of thought seem to have lived happily together in the same what?
Answer: monasteries

Question: By the latest at around 100 CE, schisms were being caused by what type of desagreements?
Answer: doctrinal

Question: What is a detailed scholastic reworking of doctrinal material called?
Answer: Abhidharma

Question: The abhidharma texts do not contain treatises, but what?
Answer: summaries or numerical lists

Question: The Abhidharma texts are from what time?
Answer: 3rd century BCE

Question: There is a disagreement on whether a school had an Abhidhamma or not, which school is it?
Answer: Mahasanghika

Question: Which sutras are among the earliest Mahayana sutras?
Answer: Prajñāpāramitā

Question: The Prajnaparamita sutras were developed along the krsna river in what region of South India?
Answer: Āndhra

Question: The earliest Mahayana sutra include the very first version of what genre?
Answer: Prajñāpāramitā

Question: Texts concerning Aksobhya Buddha were written down in what century?
Answer: 1st century BCE

Question: Author Warder believes that the Mahayana originated in the south of India in what area?
Answer: Āndhra

Question: The ancient buddhist site  in the lower Krsna Valley can be traced to at least what century BCE?
Answer: third

Question: Evidence suggests that many Early mahayana scriptures originated in what part of India?
Answer: South

Question: There is no evidence that Mahayana ever referred to a separate school of what?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: The mahayana never tried to have separte what?
Answer: Vinaya

Question: We know that both Mahayana and non Mahayana monks live in the same what?
Answer: monasteries

Question: Most of the early extant evidence for the origins of Mhayana comes from what type of translations?
Answer: Chinese

Question: The Mahayana teachings were first propagated into China by who?
Answer: Lokakṣema

Question: The earliest Mahayana sutras included the very first versions of what series?
Answer: Prajñāpāramitā

Question: Texts concerning Aksobhya Buddha were probably composed in what century BCE?
Answer: 1st

Question: What four types of thought developed during the period of late mahayna buddhism?
Answer: Madhyamaka, Yogacara, Tathagatagarbha, and Buddhist Logic

Question: What was the latest thought type?
Answer: Buddhist Logic

Question: In India the two main philosophical schools of the Mahayana were Madhyamaka and what else?
Answer: Yogacara

Question: Buddhism may have spread quickly because of what Mauryan emperor?
Answer: Ashoka

Question: The support of Asoka and his descendants led to what being built more?
Answer: stūpas

Question: What does stupas mean in English?
Answer: Buddhist religious memorials

Question: Emissaries were sent to various countries to what direct from India?
Answer: west

Question: Scholars disagree on whether emissaries were accompanied by Buddhist what?
Answer: missionaries

Question: What were the emissaries used for?
Answer: to spread Buddhism

Question: The gradual spread of Buddhism exposed it to a variety of influences including what civilization?
Answer: Persian and Greek

Question: Who was the Greek king immortalized in Buddhist canon?
Answer: Menander

Question: The Theravada school spread south from india in what century BCE?
Answer: 3rd century

Question: The Dharmagupta schol spread in what century to Kashmir?
Answer: 3rd century

Question: When was the first documented translation efforts by foreign Buddhist monks in China?
Answer: 2nd century CE

Question: Mahayana Sutras spread to China during what century?
Answer: 2nd century CE

Question: What two countries after China was the Mahayana sutras spread?
Answer: Korea and Japan

Question: When did Buddhism apread from India to Tibet?
Answer: 8th century onwards

Question: China and India are now starting to fund what type of shrines in various Asian countries?
Answer: Buddhist

Question: What is the Dharma?
Answer: the teachings of the Buddha

Question: What is the Sangha?
Answer: the Buddhist community

Question: West Buddhism is often seen as exotic and what?
Answer: progressive

Question: New forms of Buddhism are created because of what reason?
Answer: Modern influences

Question: When did a number of modern movement in Buddhism emerge?
Answer: second half of the 20th Century

Question: What is the Dalit buddhist movement sometimes called?
Answer: neo-Buddhism

Question: What Buddhism emerged in the second half of the 20th century in Japan?
Answer: Nichiren Buddhism: Soka Gakkai

Question: What does Soka Gakkai mean in English?
Answer: Value Creation Society

Question: What Buddhist movement has linked more than 12 million people?
Answer: Soka Gakkai International

Question: What is the largest Buddhist movement in the world?
Answer: SGI

Question: What religion is practiced by an estimated 488 to 535 million people?
Answer: Buddhism

Question: What country has the largest population of Buddhists?
Answer: China

Question: How many Buddhists are in China?
Answer: 244 million

Question: How may adherents does Mahayana have?
Answer: 360 million

Question: How many adherents does Thervada have?
Answer: 150 million

Question: How many Buddists are outside of Asia?
Answer: Seven million

Question: How many Buddhists were there in 1910?
Answer: 138 million

Question: How many Buddhists are there in 2010?
Answer: 495 million

Question: How many buddhists are in Asia?
Answer: 487 million

Question: What does Hinayana mean in English?
Answer: lesser vehicle

Question: What is used by Mahayana followers to name the early schools?
Answer: Hinayana

Question: Each tradition has its own core what?
Answer: concepts

Question: there are common concepts to both major buddhist branches according to what organization?
Answer: Buddhist ecumenical organization

Question: What is the oldest surviving Buddhist school?
Answer: Theravada

Question: Where does the name theravada come from?
Answer: ancestral Sthāvirīya

Question: Sinhalese buddhist reformer portrayed what Canon as the original version of scripture?
Answer: Pali Canon

Question: Where is there a growing presence of Theravada?
Answer: the west

Question: What type of Buddhists believe that personal effort is required to realize rebirth?
Answer: Theravadin

Question: Laypersons can perform good actions, producing what?
Answer: merit

Question: What was the most important Mahayana centre of learning?
Answer: Nālandā University

Question: Mahayana schools recognize all or part of what?
Answer: Mahayana Sutras

Question: A few of the sutras for Mahayanists became a manifestation of who?
Answer: the Buddha

Question: Faith in and veneration of Mahayana are stated in what sutras?
Answer: Lotus Sutra and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra

Question: Native Mahayana buddhism is also called what?
Answer: Eastern Buddhism

Question: The Buddhism practiced in Tibet, the Himalayan regions and Mongolia are often referred to as?
Answer: Northern Buddhism

Question: What is the most widely practised Eastern Buddhism?
Answer: the Pure Land school of Mahayana

Question: The royal courts sponsored both Buddhism and what?
Answer: Saivism

Question: Mantras taught in the Saiva, Garuda, and Vaisnava tantra will be effective if applied by who?
Answer: Buddhists

Question: What work is associated with Guhyasamaja tradition?
Answer: The Guhyasiddhi of Padmavajra

Question: There is a great variety of what type of scripture?
Answer: Buddhist