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SQuAD | dd92eaab59484fc594caf3ca2254c727 | Distinctive Vinaya and ethics are contained within what sutra? | [
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SQuAD | c8e25588833a4651a96bee15a4322b70 | What mentions taking refuge on behalf of young or unborn children? | [
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SQuAD | f777bfb1fed44148a8c2305ca1445dc9 | The Three Jewels are preceived as possessed of an eternal and unchanging what? | [
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SQuAD | dafe43494afe440e9959c93fcd9d1d21 | What was the earliest Buddhism type? | [
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SQuAD | f5ff3dca4b604e1e9f8c367e0aecd289 | Who believes there are innumerable other Buddhas in other universes? | [
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SQuAD | 211b89353c7a41e38436627be0a3aaa8 | A large problem in the study of early Buddhism is the relationship of dhyana and what else? | [
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SQuAD | 22e9327906b346eca7bae73c434af215 | Emissaries were sent to various countries to what direct from India? | [
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SQuAD | e764485e5c114c87a128169a1b65a9f1 | Authors Bronkhorst and Anderson claim the four truths bacame a substitution for what? | [
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SQuAD | bcced2447b8a49f0b981c5f71eb8580b | What time period was the beginning of Buddhism? | [
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SQuAD | 6fb8a1df8002427b9296cbf5a19e9a53 | Scholars believe that karma originated in what? | [
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SQuAD | 4d8aaa4faa9c420d883e64440494a497 | Most of the early extant evidence for the origins of Mhayana comes from what type of translations? | [
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SQuAD | 7230d0773cd54d9e85359a0091ae5211 | The Mahayana teachings were first propagated into China by who? | [
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SQuAD | 1fedde762b5a461b91d04b4d5bd20183 | The earliest Mahayana sutras included the very first versions of what series? | [
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SQuAD | e7fd2632a2204c94803f2287efc026ce | In Sri Lanka, what was determined to be the best unifying scripture? | [
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SQuAD | bc98f42000f74e30a021c0dbda635a32 | What religion is practiced by an estimated 488 to 535 million people? | [
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SQuAD | 0a945111bf3c44828c458bb9aeb24c3f | From which jhana did Buddha gain bodhi? | [
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SQuAD | 26c680ec18af4cb298bd8076ddf50c58 | A logic problem arises when noting that the four truths constitute what? | [
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SQuAD | b827f16350844558afd225f7d17d8039 | The four truths depict what type of path of practice? | [
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SQuAD | 08efb074cd7b493fb11253db3e86e3ce | Mahayana Sutras spread to China during what century? | [
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SQuAD | 150e6e2fbda047d09816ca33024b24d3 | The Buddha mocked what hymn of the Vedic? | [
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SQuAD | 15339cf3fd924e1c8a1c844601ae6da1 | The Buddha refused to pay respect to who, during their time of animal sacrifice? | [
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SQuAD | d4459efec3fb4f7987d58dec40a801ac | The Theravada school spread south from india in what century BCE? | [
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SQuAD | d83dcbd7b6194ec581abd258baa389cb | Monks following different schools of thought seem to have lived happily together in the same what? | [
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SQuAD | b97b275e29554795a09a8c0491113ffa | What four types of thought developed during the period of late mahayna buddhism? | [
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SQuAD | 7e831ce14b8a406bb2e70269da4360c5 | The Mahasanghika places the breakup at what time? | [
"100 BCE"
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SQuAD | 576153a521ab4ef8acfc1870e3ad492a | The ancient buddhist site in the lower Krsna Valley can be traced to at least what century BCE? | [
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] | The ancient buddhist site in the lower [MASK] can be traced to at least what [MASK]? | Anthony Barber and Sree Padma note that "historians of Buddhist thought have been aware for quite some time that such pivotally important Mahayana Buddhist thinkers as Nāgārjuna, Dignaga, Candrakīrti, Āryadeva, and Bhavaviveka, among many others, formulated their theories while living in Buddhist communities in Āndhra.... | They note that the ancient Buddhist sites in the lower Kṛṣṇa Valley, including Amaravati, Nāgārjunakoṇḍā and Jaggayyapeṭa "can be traced to at least the third century BCE, if not earlier." | [
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SQuAD | 229d78b58a3c4715816b67f3fd2ebebd | Evidence suggests that many Early mahayana scriptures originated in what part of India? | [
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] | Evidence suggests that many Early mahayana scriptures originated in what part of [MASK]? | Anthony Barber and Sree Padma note that "historians of Buddhist thought have been aware for quite some time that such pivotally important Mahayana Buddhist thinkers as Nāgārjuna, Dignaga, Candrakīrti, Āryadeva, and Bhavaviveka, among many others, formulated their theories while living in Buddhist communities in Āndhra.... | Akira Hirakawa notes the "evidence suggests that many Early Mahayana scriptures originated in South India." | [
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