What is a puja?
Offerings to holy beings performed in the home
What is the sangha?
The community of Buddhist monks and nuns.
What is nirvana?
An everlasting state of great joy and peace resulting from the end of desire and suffering.
What are mantras?
Symbolic phrases that are chanted.
What is the Middle Way?
The path in life prescribed by the Buddha; the path between extremes.
What is the Noble Eightfold Path?
The last of the Four Noble Truths. This is the path leading to the end of suffering.
What is parinirvana?
Sometimes called the “final nirvana”; the state attained upon the death of someone who has achieved nirvana.
What is samsara?
The endless cycle of uncontrolled rebirths.
What is a method of calming and training the mind through concentration?
meditation
What is a dana?
A ceremony that takes place at the temple or in a private home, which involves the donation of food, robes, medicines, and other necessities to the sangha. Thos
What is the First Precept of Buddhism?
Abstain from killing (Ahimsa: non-violence toward all living beings)
Anicca, or the notion that everything in this world is impermanent, is 1 characteristic of existence. Name the other 2 characteristics of existence.
Anatta: No-self; the notion that there is no permanent self, and that a person is a changing combination of components & Dukkha: Dissatisfaction; the i
What is dharma?
The teachings of the Buddha and his idea of the “truth” concerning the “laws” of the universe.
What are the Five Precepts?
rules that Buddhists follow which include abstaining from harming living beings, stealing, improper sexual activity, false speech, and taking alcohol or drugs
What are the Four Noble Truths?
The Buddha’s diagnosis of the main problem in life: suffering, the cause of suffering, elimination of suffering, and the path to ending suffering.
What are the Four Sights?
The sights that led to the Buddha’s departure from his palace to help humankind: a sick man, a corpse, and old man, and a begging monk.
