huutuan/long_squad_v2 huggingface dataset:
Question: When did Kanye take back his apology to Taylor Swift, saying that he was being "selfless"?
Answer: November 8, 2010
Question: What album by Kanye was released in 2016?
Answer: The Life of Pablo
Question: Which artist's award reception did Kanye interrupt at the 57th Grammy Awards?
Answer: Beck
Question: To who did Kanye state that Beck should hand his award over to?
Answer: Beyoncé
Question: What artist's acceptance speech did Kanye interrupt by walking on stage at the 57th Grammys?
Answer: Beck
Question: What day did Kanye apologize to Beck on Twitter?
Answer: February 26, 2015
Question: What award did Kanye capture at the 2015 MTV VMAs?
Answer: Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award
Question: When does Kanye intend to run for president?
Answer: 2020
Question: What award was presented to Kanye West on August 30, 2015?
Answer: Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award
Question: For what event was the largest amount of signatures collected in an attempt to keep Kanye from performing at it?
Answer: Glastonbury Festival 2015
Question: What was another event that garnered a large amount of protest for Kanye's removal of headliner status?
Answer: 2015 Pan American Games
Question: What website have music fans been using to try to block Kanye West's performance at different events?
Answer: Change.org
Question: What festival was the largest failed petition to keep Kanye from performing?
Answer: Glastonbury Festival
Question: How many signatures were gathered for Kanye's removal from the 2015 Pan American Games?
Answer: 50,000
Question: Kanye's first engagement was to which well-known designer?
Answer: Alexis Phifer
Question: What model did Kanye begin to date in 2008?
Answer: Amber Rose
Question: Who has Kanye finally settled with an married in 2014?
Answer: Kim Kardashian
Question: How many children does Kanye have with Kim?
Answer: 2
Question: What year did Kanye West begin his relationship with Alexis Phifer?
Answer: 2002
Question: When did Alexis Phifer and Kanye West get engaged?
Answer: August 2006
Question: Who did Kanye date from 2008 to 2010?
Answer: Amber Rose
Question: When did Kanye West start dating Kim Kardashian?
Answer: April 2012
Question: Where in Jerusalem did Kardashian and West have their daughter North baptised?
Answer: Armenian Apostolic Church at the Cathedral of St. James
Question: What doctor did Donda West ignore the recommendation of to invest her heart condition?
Answer: Andre Aboolian
Question: At approximately what time did paramedics receive the call about Kanye West's mother, Donda?
Answer: 7:35 pm
Question: What condition along with complications for the plastic surgery caused the death of Donda West?
Answer: heart disease
Question: What doctor originally turned Donda West down for her plastic surgery operation?
Answer: Andre Aboolian
Question: What was the name of the doctor who performed the surgery that ended up killing Donda West?
Answer: Jan Adams
Question: What talk show did the doctor who performed Donda West's plastic surgery appear on?
Answer: Larry King Live
Question: What was the final cause of Donda's death determined by the coroner?
Answer: "coronary artery disease and multiple post-operative factors due to or as a consequence of liposuction and mammoplasty"
Question: What was the name of the West's family's attorney during the incident surrounding the death of Donda West?
Answer: Ed McPherson
Question: What reasons did West's family give for filing complaints against Adams and Aboolian?
Answer: violating patient confidentiality
Question: On what show did Adams appear to "defend himself"?
Answer: Larry King Live
Question: On what day did the final coroner's report show that Donda died from heart disease and complications from surgery?
Answer: January 10, 2008
Question: What songs did Kanye dedicate to his late mother as his performance at The O2 in London?
Answer: "Hey Mama", as well as a cover of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'"
Question: In what city was the funeral and burial for Donda West held?
Answer: Oklahoma City
Question: On what day was the funeral of Donda West?
Answer: November 20, 2007
Question: What day was Kanye's first concert after the death of his mother?
Answer: November 22
Question: On what tour did Kanye perform "Hey Mama" and his version of Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" in memory of his mother?
Answer: Glow in the Dark tour
Question: Where did Kanye West first speak about his mother's death?
Answer: New Zealand
Question: What famous governor signed legislation in honor of Donda West's death?
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Question: What governor passed a law in honor of Donda West?
Answer: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Question: What was the name of the law passed by Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Answer: "Donda West Law"
Question: What famous stuntman sued Kanye for purported use of his likeness in 2006?
Answer: Robert "Evel" Knievel
Question: When was the suit settled?
Answer: days before his death in November 2007
Question: Which celebrity sued West in 2006 for trademark infrigement?
Answer: Robert "Evel" Knievel
Question: What was the name of the nickname Kanye West took on in his video "Touch the Sky"?
Answer: Evel Kanyevel
Question: When did Knievel settle the argument with West?
Answer: November 2007
Question: What was Kanye arrested for in 2008?
Answer: felony vandalism
Question: How much was Kanye's bail bond?
Answer: $20,000
Question: What was Kanye finally charged with?
Answer: one count of misdemeanor vandalism, one count of grand theft and one count of battery
Question: On what day was Kanye West arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport?
Answer: September 11, 2008
Question: What were the charges filed against Kanye West?
Answer: felony vandalism
Question: What was the name of the bodyguard also accused of vandalism?
Answer: Don "Don C." Crowley
Question: What was the dollar amount of Kanye's bond?
Answer: $20,000
Question: What was Kanye second arrest for?
Answer: scuffle involving a photographer outside the famous Tup Tup Palace nightclub in Newcastle
Question: What was the date of Kanye's second arrest?
Answer: November 14, 2008
Question: Where was Kanye arrested at for the second time?
Answer: Hilton hotel near Gateshead
Question: At what location did the incident leading to West's second arrest take place?
Answer: Tup Tup Palace nightclub
Question: What paparazzi member did Kanye attack at LAX in 2013?
Answer: Daniel Ramos
Question: What was Kanye convicted for after his paparazzi attack?
Answer: misdemeanor criminal battery and attempted grand theft
Question: What was the name of the man who was hassling West outside of LAX that West later attacked?
Answer: Daniel Ramos
Question: How many years' probation was Kanye supposed to serve for this altercation?
Answer: 2
Question: He had to attend 24 sessions of what kind of therapy?
Answer: anger management
Question: How many hours of community service did Kanye receive?
Answer: 250
Question: "Jesus Walks" was on which of Kanye's albums?
Answer: The College Dropout
Question: September of 2014, Kanye called himself a what during one of his concerts?
Answer: Christian
Question: How is Kanye viewed as a 21st century artist?
Answer: among the most critically acclaimed
Question: What famous English artist was Kanye compared to by The Guardian?
Answer: David Bowie
Question: What reporter compared Kanye West to a lightning rod?
Answer: Jon Caramanic
Question: Who said Kanye West was the greatest hip hop artist of all time?
Answer: Ben Westhoff
Question: What magazine compared Kanye to David Bowie?
Answer: The Guardian
Question: What overabundance of themes did Kanye criticize early in his career?
Answer: homophobia in hip hop
Question: The shift away from what genre of rap is Kanye credited for?
Answer: gangsta rap
Question: What kind of background did Kanye West grow up in?
Answer: middle-class
Question: Who did Kanye West have a sales competition with during his album release of Graduation?
Answer: 50 Cent
Question: Who said that Kanye West effectively led a new wave of artists that weren't only interested in rapping about gunplay or drug dealing?
Answer: Ben Detrick
Question: A number of artists have cited Kanye as being what to them?
Answer: influential
Question: Who complimented West in Time Magazine?
Answer: inventor Elon Musk
Question: How many songs has Kanye had that have exceeded 3 million digital sales?
Answer: 6
Question: How many songs has Kanye sold digitally in his career?
Answer: over 30 million
Question: How many of West's six albums have gone platinum?
Answer: 6
Question: What was Kanye's fifth consecutive number one album?
Answer: Yeezus
Question: As of 2012, how many downloads have there been of "Golddigger"?
Answer: 3,086,000
Question: What rank is West in total sales for the last decade?
Answer: third
Question: How many total digital songs has Kanye West sold in the US?
Answer: 30 million
Question: How many Grammies has Kanye won as of 2013?
Answer: 21
Question: With which artist does Kanye tie with for reaching the top of the annual Pazz & Jop Critic Poll?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: How many times has Kanye placed in the annual Time Magazine people list?
Answer: twice
Question: In 2013, West had won how many total Grammy Awards?
Answer: 21
Question: What rank did About.com give Kanye "Top 50 Hip-Hop Producers" list?
Answer: 8
Question: On what day did MTV name Kanye as the year's Number 1 "Hottest MC in the Game."?
Answer: May 16, 2008
Question: December 17, 2010 was the day Kanye was nominated by MTV for what?
Answer: MTV Man of the Year
Question: What musician did West tie with for topping the annual Pazz & Jop critic poll 4 times each?
Answer: Bob Dylan
Question: How many of Kanye's albums placed on the 2012 Rolling Stone list?
Answer: 3
Question: How many of West's albums were included on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list?
Answer: 3
Question: Which one of Kanye's albums won The Pitchfork's Album of the Decade (so far) award?
Answer: My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Question: What place did Yeezus secure on the list of 100 albums?
Answer: eighth
Question: What online music publication ranked Kanye's album "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" as the world's best album so far?
Answer: The Pitchfork
Question: What album was ranked 8 on a list of 100 albums?
Answer: Yeezus
Question: What song was ranked third in a list of 200 "best tracks" since 2010?
Answer: "Runaway"
Question: What President did Kanye West insult on air in 2005?
Answer: George W. Bush
Question: Whose speech did Kanye West ruin at the 2009 MTV Awards?
Answer: Taylor Swift
Question: What fashion items does Kanye West design?
Answer: clothing and footwear
Question: What company did Kanye West begin?
Answer: DONDA
Question: What year did Kanye West begin working with Adidas?
Answer: 2013
Question: What are the practices of Buddhism based on?
Answer: teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha
Question: Where did the Buddha live?
Answer: present-day Nepal
Question: How do Buddhists believe their suffering can be ended?
Answer: through the direct understanding and perception of dependent origination and the Four Noble Truths
Question: What did the Buddha teach should be given up to end suffering?
Answer: ignorance and craving
Question: What type of religion is Buddhism?
Answer: nontheistic religion
Question: Who's teaching is Buddhism based upon?
Answer: Gautama Buddha
Question: When was Buddha alive?
Answer: between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE
Question: Where did Buddha reside when he was alive?
Answer: present-day Nepal
Question: Who's teachings is Buddhism based upon?
Answer: Gautama Buddha
Question: Where was Buddha thought to live?
Answer: Nepal
Question: When approximately was Buddha alive?
Answer: sometime between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE
Question: Buddhism is based on the teaching of who?
Answer: Gautama Buddha
Question: How many noble truths are there?
Answer: 4
Question: Buddha was part of what subcontinent?
Answer: Indian
Question: Who is "the awakened one"
Answer: Buddha
Question: What are the two major branches of Buddhism?
Answer: Theravada ("The School of the Elders") and Mahayana ("The Great Vehicle")
Question: What is sometimes viewed as the third branch of Buddhism?
Answer: Vajrayana
Question: Where does Theravada have the largest following?
Answer: Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia
Question: Mahayana includes which practices of Buddhism?
Answer: Pure Land, Zen, Nichiren Buddhism, Shingon, and Tiantai (Tendai)
Question: What is the estimated number of Buddhists in the world?
Answer: 488 million[web 1] and 535 million
Question: Which branch practices the teachings of Zen?
Answer: Mahayana
Question: What minor branch is sometimes attributed to Mahayana?
Answer: Vajrayana
Question: What kind of teachings does Tibetan Buddhism preserve?
Answer: Vajrayana
Question: Vajrayana is attributed to who?
Answer: Indian siddhas
Question: Theravada means what?
Answer: The School of the Elders
Question: What is the goal of Theravada Buddhism?
Answer: the attainment of the sublime state of Nirvana
Question: How is Nirvana achieved?
Answer: practicing the Noble Eightfold Path (also known as the Middle Way)
Question: What is the bodhisattva path?
Answer: a state wherein one remains in this cycle to help other beings reach awakening
Question: What is the goal of Tibetan Buddhism?
Answer: Buddhahood or rainbow body
Question: How is Nirvana attained?
Answer: by practicing the Noble Eightfold Path
Question: In what buddhism is the goal a state of nirvana?
Answer: Theravada
Question: What buddhism has a goal of Buddhahood or rainbow body?
Answer: Tibetan
Question: The Noble Eightfold Path is also known as what?
Answer: the Middle Way
Question: Mahayana aspires to Buddhahood through what path?
Answer: bodhisattva
Question: Theravada escapes what cycle?
Answer: suffering and rebirth
Question: What are the Three Jewels of the Buddhist tradition?
Answer: the Buddha, the Dharma (the teachings), and the Sangha (the community)
Question: What is one of the Ten Meritorious Deeds of Buddhism?
Answer: cultivation of higher wisdom and discernment
Question: What other practices do Buddhists adhere to?
Answer: Ten Meritorious Deeds
Question: What is one of the Ten Meritorious Deeds?
Answer: renouncing conventional living and becoming a monastic
Question: Buddhism denies what kind of deity?
Answer: creator
Question: Of the Ten Meritorious Deeds, giving charity reduces what?
Answer: greediness
Question: Invocation of buddhas and bodhisattvas is in what tradition?
Answer: Mahayana
Question: The Nidānakathā of the Jataka tales of the Theravada is attributed to who?
Answer: Nidānakathā of the Jataka tales of the Theravada
Question: What are some other biographies that differ from the Jataka tales?
Answer: Buddhacarita, the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu, and the Sarvāstivādin Lalitavistara Sūtra
Question: What do scholars recognize about the life of the Buddha?
Answer: Most accept that he lived, taught and founded a monastic order
Question: When was the Buddhagohosa written?
Answer: 5th century CE
Question: What is one of the earlier biographies on Buddhism?
Answer: the Buddhacarita
Question: Who founded a monastic order in his life?
Answer: Buddha
Question: Scholars do not make claims without evidence about who's life?
Answer: Buddha
Question: Most accept that Buddha lived and taught in what type of order?
Answer: monastic
Question: The Jataka tales of the Theravada happened in what century?
Answer: 5th ce
Question: Who said "the outline of the life must be true: birth, maturity, renunciation, search, awakening and liberation, teaching, death."?
Answer: Michael Carrithers
Question: What are some of the outlines of life?
Answer: birth, maturity, renunciation
Question: Who wrote a biography of Buddha?
Answer: Karen Armstrong
Question: What do some say is Buddha's real name?
Answer: Siddhatta Gotama
Question: What are the helpers called that helped Buddha?
Answer: disciples
Question: Who believes "the outline of the life must be true" in reference to Buddha?
Answer: Michael Carrithers
Question: Karen Armstrong wrote a biography on who?
Answer: the Buddha
Question: Karen Armstrong has said that we can be confident who existed?
Answer: Siddhatta Gotama
Question: According to early texts, when was Siddhārtha Gautama born?
Answer: fifth century BCE
Question: According to early texts, where was Siddhārtha Gautama born?
Answer: in a community that was on the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the northeastern Indian subcontinent
Question: What type of community was Siddhārtha Gautama raised in?
Answer: It was either a small republic, in which case his father was an elected chieftain, or an oligarchy, in which case his father was an oligarch.
Question: Where was Siddhārtha Gautama born?
Answer: the northeastern Indian subcontinent
Question: When did Siddhārtha Gautama live?
Answer: fifth century BCE
Question: What size was Siddhārtha Gautama's birthplace?
Answer: a small republic
Question: Where did we find proof of his existence?
Answer: early texts
Question: What was most likely Siddhārtha Gautama's father?
Answer: an oligarchy
Question: Who was born in a northeastern part of India/
Answer: Siddhārtha Gautama
Question: If Siddhartha lived in a small republic, his father would have been a what?
Answer: elected chieftain
Question: What was the name of the astrologer who visited Prince Gautama's father?
Answer: Asita
Question: What was the prediction made by Asita?
Answer: Siddhartha would either become a great king or renounce the material world to become a holy man
Question: According to Asita, how would Siddhartha decide which path to take in life?
Answer: depending on whether he saw what life was like outside the palace walls
Question: What was the occupation of the person who visited Gautama?
Answer: an astrologer
Question: What was the name of his father?
Answer: Suddhodana
Question: What was Buddha predicted to become contrary with his life as we know it?
Answer: a great king
Question: What was the name of the astrologer that visited Gautama's father?
Answer: Asita
Question: What is Gautama's fathers name?
Answer: Suddhodana
Question: Asita prophesied that Siddhartha would be a kind or a what?
Answer: holy man
Question: What did Śuddhodana do to ensure that his son became a king instead of a holy man?
Answer: prevented him from leaving the palace grounds
Question: How old was Gautama when he first left the palace grounds?
Answer: 29
Question: What happened when Gautama left the palace grounds?
Answer: he learned of the suffering of ordinary people
Question: What are the four sights in Buddhism?
Answer: encountering an old man, a sick man, a corpse and, finally, an ascetic holy man
Question: What did Buddha's father want him to become?
Answer: a king
Question: By what age was he venturing outside?
Answer: 29
Question: What were his first four encounters called?
Answer: the four sights
Question: What did Gautama do after learning about the outside world?
Answer: abandon royal life
Question: Suddhodana wanted his son to become what?
Answer: a king
Question: At what age did Gautama venture out from the palace area?
Answer: 29
Question: How many "sights" did Gautama have that are well known?
Answer: four
Question: Gautama encountered an old man, a sick man, a holy man, and a what?
Answer: corpse
Question: What was the first thing Gautama did on his spiritual quest?
Answer: went to study with famous religious teachers of the day
Question: What is the path of moderation between the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification called?
Answer: the Middle Way
Question: What are some of the practices Gautama underwent on his quest?
Answer: prolonged fasting, breath-holding, and exposure to pain
Question: What was the first skill Gautama learnt?
Answer: meditation
Question: What almost killed Gautama in his pursuit?
Answer: asceticism
Question: What did he receive from the locals that changed his approach?
Answer: milk and rice
Question: What is the path of moderation called he followed?
Answer: Middle Way
Question: Gautama didn't like the religious teaching he initially found because of why?
Answer: they did not provide a permanent end to suffering
Question: What did Gautama accept from a village girl?
Answer: milk and rice
Question: Gautama devoted himself to what type of meditation?
Answer: anapanasati
Question: Buddhists call anapanasati what?
Answer: the Middle Way
Question: How old was Gautama when he sat under the Bodhi Tree?
Answer: 35
Question: What kind of tree was the Bodhi Tree?
Answer: Ficus religiosa
Question: What did Gautama spend the rest of his life doing after reaching enlightenment?
Answer: he spent the rest of his life teaching the path of awakening he had discovered
Question: How old was the Buddha at the time of his death?
Answer: 80
Question: What is the south branch of the tree Gautama sat under called?
Answer: Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
Question: What was the tree called he sat under?
Answer: Ficus religiosa
Question: What was the tree renamed that Gautama achieved enlightenment under?
Answer: Bodhi Tree
Question: At what age did Gautama come to pass?
Answer: 80
Question: When he was 35 Gautama sat in meditation under what tree?
Answer: Bodhi Tree
Question: What type of tree was the Bodhi Tree?
Answer: Ficus religiosa
Question: What town was the Bodhi Tree in?
Answer: Bodh Gaya
Question: The south branch of the original fig tree is known as?
Answer: Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi
Question: What is samsara?
Answer: the continual repetitive cycle of birth and death
Question: What is avidya?
Answer: ignorance
Question: What is dukkha?
Answer: suffering, anxiety, dissatisfaction
Question: Is liberation from samsara possible?
Answer: In the Buddhist view, liberation from samsara is possible by following the Buddhist path.
Question: The cycle of birth and death is called what in Buddhism?
Answer: Samsara
Question: How many realms of existence are there in Buddhism?
Answer: six
Question: avidya is what kind of samsara?
Answer: ignorance
Question: How can you be freed from samsara?
Answer: by following the Buddhist path
Question: What is samsara defined as?
Answer: the continual repetitive cycle of birth and death
Question: How many realms of existance are within the cycle of rebirths?
Answer: six
Question: Realms can be understood as physical realms of what type of states?
Answer: psychological
Question: Samsara is caused by what?
Answer: avidya
Question: A person can get away from samsara by doing what?
Answer: following the Buddhist path
Question: What is karma according to Buddhism?
Answer: the force that drives saṃsāra
Question: What is theavoidance of unwholesome actions and the cultivation of positive actions called?
Answer: sīla
Question: What actions does karma refer to in Buddhism?
Answer: actions of body, speech or mind that spring from mental intent
Question: What is the definition of Karma from Sanskrit?
Answer: action, work
Question: What is the avoidance of bad acts called?
Answer: sīla
Question: Karma's actions come from what?
Answer: cetanā
Question: What is the result of Karma called?
Answer: vipāka
Question: What is Karma?
Answer: the force that drives saṃsāra
Question: Avoidance of unwholesome actions and use of positive actions is called what?
Answer: sīla
Question: what does vipaka mean?
Answer: result
Question: In which branch of Buddhism is it believed that there can be no divine salvation or forgiveness for karma?
Answer: Theravada Buddhism
Question: In Mahayana Buddhism, what are some Mahayana sutras that are believed to remove negative karma just by the hearing of the texts?
Answer: the Lotus Sutra, the Aṅgulimālīya Sūtra and the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra
Question: The reciting of mantras as a means for removing past negative karma is a part of which branch of Buddhism?
Answer: Vajrayana
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
Question: Gautama combined the yoga practice of what teacher?
Answer: Kalama
Question: Gautama invented a new kind of human without what?
Answer: egotism
Question: What are the "four Immeasurable minds"?
Answer: love, compassion, joy, and equanimity
Question: Who calls the four immeasurable minds "four limitless ones"?
Answer: Pema Chödrön
Question: The Four Immeasurables are taught as a form of what?
Answer: meditation
Question: When did Gautama Buddha discover the Middle Way?
Answer: prior to his enlightenment
Question: An important guiding priciple of Buddhist practice is what?
Answer: the Middle Way
Question: Guatama discovered the middle path before his what?
Answer: enlightenment
Question: What are some of the theories and philosophies produced by Buddhist scholars?
Answer: Abhidharma, Buddhist philosophy and Reality in Buddhism
Question: Does Buddhism encourage or discourage doctrinal studies?
Answer: Some schools of Buddhism discourage doctrinal study, and some regard it as essential practice.
Question: Who has produced a number of theories and concepts such as Abhidharma and Reality in Buddhism?
Answer: Buddhist scholars
Question: Some schools within Buddhism discourage what type of study?
Answer: doctrinal
Question: Upon awakening to the true nature of the self, what is one is liberated from?
Answer: suffering (dukkha) and the cycle of incessant rebirths (saṃsāra)
Question: Liberation is know as what?
Answer: nirvāṇa
Question: What is the goal of the buddhist path?
Answer: nirvāṇa
Question: In awakening to the true nature of the self, one no longer care about what?
Answer: objects
Question: Buddha recommended viewing thing by how many marks of existence?
Answer: three
Question: What is the meaning of impermanence in Buddhism?
Answer: all compounded or conditioned phenomena (all things and experiences) are inconstant, unsteady, and impermanent
Question: According to the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence, how does life express impermanence?
Answer: in the aging process, the cycle of rebirth (saṃsāra), and in any experience of loss
Question: Why is attachment to things futile?
Answer: because things are impermanent
Question: What is in a constant flux?
Answer: Everything
Question: Everything is continuously coming into being and what?
Answer: ceasing to be
Question: The cycle of rebirth is also called what?
Answer: saṃsāra
Question: According to doctrine, because all thing don't last, attachment can lead to what?
Answer: suffering
Question: The term dukkha corresponds to what English terms?
Answer: suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness, sorrow, affliction, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress, misery, and frustration
Question: Dukkha is often translated as suffering, but the philosophical meaning of dukkha of more closely related to what term?
Answer: disquietude
Question: Buddhism seeks to be neither pessimistic or optimistic, but what?
Answer: realistic
Question: Suffering is a central concept in what?
Answer: Buddhism
Question: The philosophical meaning of suffering is close what term?
Answer: disquietude
Question: The condition of being disturbed is what?
Answer: disquietude
Question: In translation what term is often left untranslated to keep of fuller definition?
Answer: dukkha
Question: What is the third mark of existence in Buddhism?
Answer: Not-self (Pāli: anatta; Sanskrit: anātman)
Question: The Buddha rejected the metaphysical assertions "I have a Self" and "I have no Self" as views that bind one to what?
Answer: suffering
Question: What was the answer given when the Buddha was asked if the body is the same as the self?
Answer: the Buddha refused to answer
Question: What is the conclusion that one comes to when analyzing the changing physical and mental components or  person or thing?
Answer: neither the respective parts nor the person as a whole comprise a self
Question: What is the 3rd mark of existence?
Answer: Not-self
Question: In what form is anatta not meant as a metaphysical assertion?
Answer: Nikayas
Question: Buddha rejected the assertion "I have a Self" and what other related assertion?
Answer: "I have no Self"
Question: What is the term for constantly changing physical and mental parts?
Answer: skandhas
Question: What is the name of the Buddhist doctrine that states that phenomena arise together in a mutually interdependent web of cause and effect?
Answer: pratītyasamutpāda, (Sanskrit; Pali: paticcasamuppāda; Tibetan Wylie: rten cing 'brel bar 'byung ba; Chinese: 緣起)
Question: Translated into English, what does pratītyasamutpāda mean?
Answer: "dependent origination", "conditioned genesis", "dependent relationship", "dependent co-arising", "interdependent arising", or "contingency"
Question: The doctrine of pratityasumatupada is a important part of what type of metaphysics?
Answer: Buddhist
Question: What is the most common application of the concept of pratītyasamutpāda?
Answer: the scheme of Twelve Nidānas
Question: What does the scheme of Twelve Nidānas explain?
Answer: the continuation of the cycle of suffering and rebirth (saṃsāra) in detail.
Question: An application of the idea of pratityasamutpada is the scheme of what?
Answer: Twelve Nidānas
Question: What doe nidana mean?
Answer: cause, foundation, source or origin
Question: What describes the connection between the conditions of cyclic existence?
Answer: The Twelve Nidānas
Question: What describes the causal connection between the subsequent conditions of cyclic existance?
Answer: The Twelve Nidānas
Question: How are sentient beings freed from suffering?
Answer: by attaining Nirvana
Question: What is the first Nidāna?
Answer: ignorance
Question: The absence of ignorance leads to what?
Answer: the absence of the others
Question: Who always suffers throughout samsara?
Answer: Sentient beings
Question: What is suffering also called?
Answer: dukkha
Question: How do you free yourself of dukkha?
Answer: attaining Nirvana
Question: What is the first Nidana?
Answer: ignorance
Question: Nagarjuna's main contribution was the exposition of the concept of what?
Answer: śūnyatā
Question: What does sunyata mean?
Answer: emptiness
Question: Nagarjuna said that sentient beings are empty of what?
Answer: ātman
Question: What does dharmas mean?
Answer: phenomena
Question: What teaching were criticized by Nagarjuna?
Answer: Sarvastivada teachings
Question: What scholars reformed Sarvastivada teachings?
Answer: Vasubandhu and Asanga
Question: What is the doctrine that says that the mind and only the mind are real?
Answer: cittamatra
Question: What Yogacarins asserted that the mind was not truly existent?
Answer: Vasubandhu and Asanga
Question: what does prajnaparamita mean?
Answer: perfected spiritual insight
Question: According to what school is tathgatagarbha the inseparability of clairty and emptiness of one's mind?
Answer: Sakya
Question: According to what school does it refer to the innate qualities of the mind that express themselves as omniscience?
Answer: Jonang
Question: What type of sutras were generally ignored in india?
Answer: tathāgatagarbha
Question: What term means awakening?
Answer: nirvana
Question: What is the term for someone who has achieved nirvana?
Answer: arahant
Question: What is the term applied to the experience of the awakening of arahants?
Answer: Bodhi
Question: In early Buddhism Bodhi used a meaning synonymous to what word?
Answer: nirvana
Question: What is the term for greed or craving?
Answer: raga
Question: what is the word for hate or aversion?
Answer: dosa
Question: What does moha mean?
Answer: delusion
Question: What has achieved nirvana and also liberation from delusion?
Answer: bodhisattva
Question: If bodhi is attained what do you become?
Answer: a buddha
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: 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: 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 is the term for the spontaneous wish to attain Buddhahood for the benefit of all beings?
Answer: bodhicitta
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: 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: In Buddhism, what must be developed at all times?
Answer: mindfulness and clear awareness
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 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: 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: 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: What is the third strict precept on sexual misconduct?
Answer: a precept of celibacy
Question: In the complete list of precepts, which one is partitioned into two?
Answer: seventh
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
Question: Monastics are instructed by the Buddha to live as what?
Answer: islands unto themselves
Question: Distinctive Vinaya and ethics are contained within what sutra?
Answer: Mahayana Brahmajala
Question: Bodhisattvas are not encouraged to eat what?
Answer: meat
Question: Where is the monastic vinaya displaced and clergy is allowed to marry?
Answer: Japan
Question: Evidence has shown some lay people got to proficiency in all eight what?
Answer: jhānas
Question: Meditation is the primary means of cultivating what?
Answer: samādhi
Question: Upon development of samadhi, a person gets rid of what?
Answer: defilement, calm, tranquil, and luminous
Question: What is the term when the mind is ready to penetrate and gain insight?
Answer: vipassanā
Question: Mindfulness is essential to concentration, which is neede to achieve what?
Answer: insight
Question: Samatha meditation starts from being mindful of an object or what?
Answer: idea
Question: What is the term for tranquility?
Answer: jhāna
Question: Vipassana meditation can reveal how the mind was what?
Answer: disturbed
Question: What is the term for insight knowledge?
Answer: jñāna
Question: What is the term for understanding?
Answer: prajñā
Question: What eradicates the defilements completely?
Answer: understanding
Question: In Theravada Buddhism, what is the cause of human existence and suffering?
Answer: craving
Question: What does craving carry with it?
Answer: defilements
Question: Deeply rooted afflictions of the mind create what?
Answer: suffering and stress
Question: What is the ultimate goal for Theravadins?
Answer: Nibbāna
Question: Prajna is the wisom that is able to extinguish afflictions and bring about what?
Answer: bodhi
Question: What is listed as the sixth of the six paramitas of the mahayana?
Answer: Prajñā
Question: Initially prajna is attained at a conceptual level by means of listening to what?
Answer: sermons
Question: In theory when can one attain Nirvana during practice?
Answer: at any point
Question: What can be applied to daily life once it is attained?
Answer: conceptual understanding
Question: What form of buddhism lays special emphasis on meditation?
Answer: Zen
Question: What form of Buddhism places less emphasis on scriptures?
Answer: Zen
Question: Zen focuses on what type of breakthroughs?
Answer: spiritual
Question: Which schools of Zen likes the use of meditation on the koan for spiritual breakthroughs?
Answer: Rinzai
Question: What type of self is equated with the Buddha?
Answer: True Self
Question: What is not allowed to confine and bind oneself?
Answer: Thinking and thought
Question: What type of Buddhism is Tibeto-Mongolian based on?
Answer: Mahayana