The Dreaming etc
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?
Paul of Tarsus's role or occupation before his conversion
What is a Pharisee, persecutor of follower of Jesus?
The Buddhist belief that all things are interconnected
What is "interconnectedness" or "dependent origination" or "dependent arising"?
the belief that humans are responsible for caring for the Earth as God's creation
What is stewardship?
These two groups intermingle freely during Wesak
What are the Noble Sangha and the lay-persons?
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?
Paul's contributions to the New Testament
What are the Epistles or Letters?
The Buddhist concept of the temporary nature of all things
What is Annica?
he biblical command for humans to have dominion over the Earth
The dominion mandate
These three events are all believed to have occurred on the same date
What are Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death?
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?
The belief that salvation is achieved through faith in Jesus Christ alone, rather than obeying the laws and restrictions.
What is the justification by Faith?
Practiced by Buddhist monks on Thailand to restrict the progress of loggers
What is Tree Ordination?
How Pope Francis has addressed environmental issues in recent years
What are encyclicals (Laudato Si) and other official documents, emphasizing the importance of environmental stewardship
This sacrament is the symbolic reenactment of the Last Supper
What is the Eucharist, Communion or the Liturgy of the Eucharist?
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 ways Paul's missionary journeys contributed to the development of Christianity
What is the spread of Christianity to the Gentile communities of Greec and Asia Minor?
The lifestyle choice that is aimed at emphasising compassion for all living things
What is vegetarianism?
The name for the ecumenical event that celebrates God's creation
The biblical basis for Christian worship on a Sunday
What is God resting on the seventh day, and the 4th Commandment?
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)?
The word Paul used to describe the highest form of love
What is agape?
This Buddhist practice cultivates awareness of one's connection to the natural world and promoting sustainability
What is mindfulness?
The annual Orthodox Christian celebration that commemorates the creation of the world
What is the The Feast of St. Basil the Great?
Common across all Christian denominations, this prayer is a feature of Saturday/Sunday worship, and has the Latin name 'Pater Noster'
What is the Our Father, Lord's Prayer?