What is the state that Buddhists refer to as "Enlightenment"?
What is Nirvana
100
Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. This means the end of what?
What is suffering
100
What does the word "jñana" mean?
What is knowledge
100
What are the destruction of life, stealing, lying, and misconduct known as?
What are the Four Vices (Sigalovada Sutta)
200
Reaching Nirvana means breaking the otherwise endless cycle of what?
What is reincarnation
200
What is the practical guideline to ethical and mental development with the goal of freeing the individual from attachments and delusions?
What is the Eightfold Path
200
Generosity, moral discipline, patience and tolerance, wisdom, energy, renunciation, truthfulness, determination, loving kindness, and equanimity make up the what?
What is the Paramita
200
What do desire, anger and hatred, ignorance, and fear and anxiety lead to?
What is evil
300
"Human nature is not perfect, thus life means suffering" is one of the four what?
What is Noble Truths
300
The Eightfold Path consists of three subcategories: ethical conduct, mental development, and what?
What is Wisdom
300
Who partakes in the additional guidelines of using simple beds and seats, avoiding use of money, and avoiding self-adornment?
Who are nuns and monks
300
What Buddhist teaching falls under this description: Until such time as one becomes enlightened, one's actions in this life will determine the nature of future rebirths?
What is karma
400
What is the origin of suffering?
What is attachment
400
What are the five moral precepts that create a sense of peaceful coexistence called?
What is the Pancha Shila
400
What is the name of the four sublime states to which we should all aspire?
What is the Brahma Vihara
400
Buddhism discourages imposing rigid moral absolutes, and are reluctant to intervene when a woman makes what choice?
What is to have an abortion
500
The teaching of Buddha is to cultivate good, to purify one's mind, and to what?
What is do no evil
500
The five parts of the Pancha Shila are to avoid killing, avoid stealing, avoid sexual irresponsibility, avoid alcohol and drugs, and what?
What is to avoid lying
500
What is compassion or mercy, the kindness shown to those who suffer, called?
What is Karuna
500
Homosexual rights have not had great success in Buddhist cultures, but the more pressing concern with sexuality is what?