The Buddha's original suggestion for approaching life in such a manner that avoids extremes.
What is The Middle Way?
100
Similar to Moksha in hinduism, this is the goal of Buddhists.
What is Nirvana or parinirvana?
100
While members of the Buddhist Sangha (or religious community) have additional laws to follow, Buddhist lay persons have these ethical guidelines to consider.
What are the Five Precepts?
200
Where Vajrayana Buddhism is practiced.
What is Tibet?
200
The Buddha's full given name.
What is Siddhartha Gautama?
200
Pali word for the concept that all life is suffering.
What is Dukkha?
200
Buddhists believe that this alone causes the majority of life's suffering.
What is attachment or desire (tanha)?
200
According to Mahayana Buddhism, these role models in spirituality refrain from attaining their own enlightenment to help others achieve it.
What is a bodhisattva?
300
Where did Zen Buddhism originate?
What is Japan?
300
The four passing sights the Buddha sees on his first Great Departure.
What are an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and an ascetic?
300
As opposed to being defined as "Ethical Duty" in Hinduism, these are simply the "Buddha's teaching" in Buddhism.
What are Dharma?
300
Tibetan Buddhists believe that this man is the 14th reincarnation of a Bodhisattva named Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion.
Who is the Dalai Lama? (Tenzin Gyatso)
300
Someone who practices an austerely simple life and abstains from the material pleasures of the world.
Who is an ascetic?
400
One of the S.E. Asian countries where Theravada Buddhism is popular.
What is Thailand, Myanmar, or Cambodia?
400
The Buddha said that the human is not a permanent, independent "self", but rather is a sum of parts, called this.
What are the five aggregates?
400
This is the concept of impermanence.
What is Anicca?
400
Buddhists believe that the Buddha set forth these four statements to identify the human condition.
What are the Four Noble Truths?
400
A buddhist in China is most likely to practice this type of Buddhism.
What is Mahayana?
500
Type of tree under which Buddha first attained enlightenment.
What is a fig (or Boddhi) tree?
500
According to Theravada Buddhism, these are role models in spirituality who choose a monastic lifestyle and devote their lives to individual enlightenment.
What are arhats?
500
This is the concept of "No-self"
What is Anatta?
500
Buddhists, like Hindus, believe that this is the moral law of cause and effect.
What is Karma?
500
The last of the Four Noble Truths, these steps are to be followed by Buddhists looking to reach Nirvana.