Buddhism Packet Questions

1. Siddhartha Gautama
2. Old man, sick man, dead man, and an ascetic.  The first three made him realize suffering and how it pertains to everyone in the world.  The ascetic made him see a way which he could escape these sufferings.
3. Siddhartha was starving to death and realized that starvation does not lead to salvation.  Therefore there is no need to completely deny one's self by not taking care of one's self.
4. He sat under a tree while being tempted by the three daughters of the demon Mara.  He resisted them all and reached enlightenment that night.
5. A sangha is a group of Buddhist monks or nuns.
6. Buddha, Dharma, Sangha.
7. Reincarnation and Karma
8. He did not like all of the gods and the idea of worship.
9. Anicca is the desire that causes Dhukka. Anatta is the cessation of Dhukka through the cessation of Anicca
10. Anatta is the exclusion of self while Atman is the complete external world for which self is given up
11. Karma determines into which thing your soul will be reincarnated
12. No killing, stealing, misconduct, lying/cheating, or intoxicants.  For monks: do not eat after noon, do not use cosmetics, do not accept money, no fine arts, no sleeping in nice places
13. Suffering- pain caused by desire, jealousy, hate
14. Tanha is the desire, jealousy and hate mentioned in question 13
15. Right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, and right knowledge and liberation.
16. Buddhas refrain from Nirvana to help others achieve enlightenment
17. An Arhat is one who has become enlightened, probably Theravada
18. Nirvana means blow out.  Your spirit cease to exist when Nirvana is reached like a flame ceases to exist when you blow it out
19. Mahayana, Theravada, Vajrayana
20. Buddha's doctrines
21. Large vehicle- most popular branch
22. It uses desire to show the irrelevance of life
23. He leads Tibetian Buddhism. He is not chosen. When he dies, he is reincarnated and the high lamas try and find his reincarnation
24. Theravada- Southeast Asia; Mahayana- East Asia; Vajrayana- Tibet and Mongolia.
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