Life of Buddha
The Buddha was given this name at birth.
What is Siddartha Gautama?
This is the name for the state of enlightenment, to which all Buddhists aspire to reach.
What is Nirvana?
Buddhism spread along these trade routes.
What are the Silk Roads?
This is the religious belief that the soul or spirit, after death, begins a new life in a new body.
What is reincarnation?
Civilizations in Ancient Egypt depended on this river for survival.
What is the Nile River?
Siddartha (Buddha) was this type of ruler.
What is a prince?
This is the first noble truth.
What is that all human life involves suffering?
The Milinda Panha is also known as this.
What is the debate of King Menander?
An overwhelming majority of Hindus (94%) live in this one country.
What is India?
The two rivers that run through Mesopotamia.
What are the Tigris and the Euphrates?
Siddhartha was born with the marks of a great person and he could become one of these two things.
What is a spiritual leader/Buddha or a great political leader?
This Indian King was converted to Buddhism after seeing war and then spread it around Asia.
Who is Ashoka?
Religious texts left behind by the Aryans.
What are the Vedas?
After Gilgamesh rejects the goddess Ishtar, she sends this creature to attack the city.
What is the Bull of Heaven?
This is the place where Buddha was born.
What is Kapilavastu, Nepal?
This is the destruction of suffering.
What is to stop craving/desiring?
Name one good or item traded along the Silk Roads (besides silk).
What are: gems, horses, bronze, glass, gold, grapes, gunpowder, rugs, spices, tea, wool, paper, jade, dyes, ceramics?
This is the good or bad actions that determine the future of an individual's existence.
What is karma?
This is a temple tower in Mesopotamia.
What is a ziggurat?
On his first trip to the country, Siddartha sees these four men and has an existential realization.
What is: an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a beggar.
Name 3 practices or parts of the Eightfold Path.
Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.
Name two cities on the Silk Road.
What is: Rome, Venice, Alexandria, Xi’an (Chang'an), Turfan, Samarkand, Baghdad, Damascus, Merv, Kashgar, Bactria, Dunhuang, etc.
The divine law that underlying right behavior and social order.
What is dharma?
These are the two types of location, according to the five themes of geography.
What are absolute and relative?