Places of Worship
Wheel of Life
The Letter P
Metaphors and Stories
Vocabulary
200

A Buddhist monastery in generally called this

What is a vihara?

200

This is the number of realms of rebirth

What is six?

200

The word for dependent origination

What is paticcasamuppada?

200

You extinguish these to become enlightened

What are the three fires?

200

This Pali word means suffering

What is dukkha?

300

This is the direction a shrine usually faces

What is east?

300

This character holds the Wheel of Life

Who is Yama?

300

Also called the six perfections

What are paramitas?

300

The Buddha used this object (the second one) to describe mental suffering

What is an arrow?

300

An enlightened being who stays in the realm of samsara is called this

What is a Bodhisattva?

400

This mound contains relics of the Buddha

What is a stupa?

400

These beings have tiny mouths and huge stomachs

What are hungry ghosts?

400

The wisdom category in the Eightfold Path

What is Panna?

400

DAILY DOUBLE

Being born a human is as unlikely as this animal putting its head through a hoop.

400

A Buddha-to-be is called this in Pali

What is bodhisattha?

500

This is the name of a Tibetan monastery

What is a gompa?

500

The realm of envious demi-gods is called this

What is the ashura realm?

500

A protective Buddhist chant

What is a paritta?

500

The Buddha used this object to describe the vehicle for moving from samsara to nibbana

What is a raft?

500

DAILY DOUBLE

This is the word for an image of the Buddha

1000

The dhamma is preserved in this temple room

What is the library?

1000

In Pali, the wheel of life is called this

What is bhavachakra or wheel of becoming

1000

Amitabha Buddha made one of these

What is a Pure Land?

1000

The Buddha told Kisa Gotami to collect these

What are mustard seeds?

1000

This is the Japanese word for seated meditation in Zen Buddhism

What is Zazen?

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