Sacred Texts
What is the name of the sacred text of Theravada Buddhism?
What is the Pali Canon (Tripitaka)?
What is the First Noble Truth?
What is "Life is suffering (Dukkha)"?
What is the "Middle Way" in Buddhism?
What is a path between self-indulgence and self-denial?
What are the three marks of existence in Buddhism?
What are Anatta (no permanent self), Anicca (impermanence), and Dukkha (suffering)?
What are the most important monuments in Theravada Buddhism?
What are Stupas?
What are the three “baskets” of the Tripitaka?
What are the Basket of Discipline (Vinaya Pitaka), which contains monastic rules, Basket of Discourses (Sutta Pitaka), which contains Buddha’s teachings, and Basket of Higher Teachings (Abhidhamma Pitaka), which contains philosophical analyses?
What causes suffering according to the Second Noble Truth?
What is craving or Tanha?
Which part of the Eightfold Path involves truthful and kind speech?
What is Right Speech?
What is the term for the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth?
What is Samsara?
What are the five precepts followed by lay Buddhists?
What are avoiding killing, stealing, lying, sexual misconduct, and intoxicants?
In which language is the Pali Canon written?
What is Pali?
What is the goal of Buddhism, described in the Third Noble Truth?
What is Nirvana (the extinction of craving)?
Which part of the Eightfold Path involves meditation and mindfulness?
What is Right Concentration?
In Buddhism, what replaces the concept of an eternal soul?
What are the Five Skandhas (form, feelings, perceptions, volitions, and consciousness)?
What does the term "Nirvana" literally mean?
What is "blowing out" (as in extinguishing desire)?
What is the purpose of the Vinaya Pitaka?
What is a guide for monastic discipline and rules?
What is the Fourth Noble Truth?
What is the Eightfold Path?
Which part of the Eightfold Path involves ethical behavior, including avoiding killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct?
What is Right Conduct?
In Theravada Buddhism, what is an enlightened person called?
What is an Arhant?
What is the role of meditation in Theravada Buddhism?
What is achieving mindfulness, wisdom, and ultimately enlightenment?
What is the famous Buddhist text that serves as a guide to meditation and enlightenment in Theravada Buddhism?
What is the Visuddhimagga (The Path of Purification)?
What is the Buddhist analogy for how craving leads to rebirth?
What is a flame passing from candle to candle?
What are the three main divisions of the Eightfold Path?
What are Wisdom (Prajna), Morality (Sila), and Concentration (Samadhi)?
What future Buddha is expected to bring a new age of harmony?
Who is Maitreya?
Why is Theravada Buddhism called "functional atheism"?
What is because gods are considered irrelevant to liberation?