Contemporary Indigenous Spirituality
The name for the spiritual belief that connects Indigenous Australians and the land.
The Dreaming
This event in 1965 led to an increase in immigration to Australia.
What is the White Australia policy being abolished?
The Dalai Lama's name
What is Tenzin Gyatso?
The Buddhist belief that all things are interconnected
What is "interconnectedness" or "dependent origination" or "dependent arising"?
These two groups intermingle freely during Wesak
What are the Noble Sangha and the lay-persons?
Mr Donohoe has this many children.
What is 2 children?
Who is Vincent Lingiari?
The significant legal terminology overturned with the Mabo decision
What is terra nullius?
This central concept of Buddhism is key to the Dalai Lama's messaging on social media
What is compassion?
The Buddhist concept of the temporary nature of all things
What is Annica?
These are the main features of Wesak (200 points for each correct answer)
- celebrated in 1st full moon in May
- homes cleaned
- hoisting Buddhist flags and singing hymns at dawn
- Puja service
- Baby Buddha statue bathed (Mahayana)
- bow three times to honour the three jewels
- recite the 3 refuges
- paper lanterns (Thailand/Theravada Buddhism)
These two countries are the only countries in the world that contain a hyphen in their name.
What is Timor-Leste and Guinea-Bissau?
The significance demands of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, one of which was recently defeated by a referendum.
What is constitutional recognition and a Voice to Parliament?
This New Age religion established itself in Australia in the 1960s and 70s
What is Scientology?
The ways the Dalai Lama contributed to the preservation of Tibetan Buddhism
What is establishing 200 monasteries, the Tibetan education system, dissemination of Tibetan Buddhist ideals through media?
Practiced by Buddhist monks on Thailand to restrict the progress of loggers
What is Tree Ordination?
These three events are all believed to have occurred on the same date
What are Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death?
What is 'ecumenical/ecumenism'?
The name for an indigenous sacred site consisting of two concentric circles of raised earth banks.
What is a bora ground, or bora ring?
These countries contributed to the rise of Islam in Australia
What is Lebanon, Syria and the Middle East?
Ways that the Dalai Lama has promoted interfaith dialogue
What is meeting with religious leaders and world leaders such as the Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury?
The lifestyle choice that is aimed at emphasising compassion for all living things
What is vegetarianism?
These are the impacts of the Wesak festival on the lives of individual adherents.
What is:
- recommitment to the goals of Buddhism
- reaffirmation of the life of the Buddha and the dharma, and its central importance to living a good life
Who are The Wiggles?
Impact of dispossession on indigenous Australians
Loss of language and culture, intergenerational trauma, loss of family and kinship ties, loss of personal identity
These government policies have contributed to the rise of secularism in Australia?
What is separation of church and state, freedom of religion, secularisation of public institutions such as schools, religious tolerance?
The Dalai Lama's peace proposal in his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
What is the 5 point peace plan - establishing Tibet as an ahimsa zone (zone of no-violence)?
This Buddhist practice cultivates awareness of one's connection to the natural world and promoting sustainability
What is mindfulness?
These are the impacts of the Wesak festival on the community.
What is:
- preserves unity and continuity through reaffirmation of beliefs as a community
- provides spiritual support and solidarity by giving opportunities for lay-people and monks to interact
- provides opportunities for initiation of new adherents - providing continuity of tradition and growth of the sangha
What is caffiene?