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31	How many planes of existence are there?
Pure Abodes	What are the higher heavens called?
anāgāmis	What are skilled Buddhists called?
formless realms	What is another name for Ārūpyadhātu?
arūpajhānas	What is the highest object of meditation called?
31	How many planes of existence?
anāgāmis	Skilled buddhist practictioners that can get to the higher heavens are known as what?
arūpajhānas	What is the highest object of meditation?
formless realms	What does arupyadhatu mean?
East Asian and Tibetan	There is a transitional state between one life and the next according to what branches of Buddhism?
Theravada	What branch of Buddhism rejects that there is a transitional state between lives?
Samyutta Nikaya of the Pali Canon	Passages in what teaching support the idea that the Buddha taught of a stage between lives?
bardo	What is the state called between lives?
Theravada	Which major part of Buddhism rejects bardo?
Samyutta Nikaya	What book discusses bardo?
East Asian	Other than Tibetan Buddhism, what other Buddhism supports bardo?
East Asian and Tibetan	There is an intermediate state between one life and the next according to what Buddism?
orthodox	What type of Theravada rejects the intermediate state idea?
Pali	Some passages of what Canon support the idea of intermediate stages?
the Four Noble Truths	What is considered to be central to the teachings of Buddhism?
the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome	What do the Four Noble Truths explain?
the Four Noble Truths	What teachings are the most important to Buddhism?
suffering	What part of Dukkha deals with pain?
Four Noble Truths	What is considered central to the teachings of Buddhism?
dukkha	The four truths explain the nature of what?
the nature of dukkha	What does the first of the Four Noble Truths explain?
"suffering", "anxiety", "unsatisfactoriness", "unease", etc.	What is Dukkha?
Dukkha	What does the first truth cover?
suffering	What is another word for Dukkha?
anxiety	What is another nature of Dukkha?
three	How many aspects are there to Dukkha?
unsatisfactoriness	Dukkha can be translated as what word in regards to unhappiness?
Dukkha	Suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness, and unease is the translation of what word?
three	How many aspects does dukkha have?
that the origin of dukkha can be known	What does the second of the Four Noble Truths explain?
craving (Pali: tanha) conditioned by ignorance (Pali: avijja)	What is the origin of dukkha?
the complete cessation of dukkha is possible	What is the third of the Four Noble Truths explain?
identifies a path to this cessation	What is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths explain?
dukkha can be known.	What is the second truth?
craving	How is the meaning of Dukkha explained?
ignorance	What is a contributing factor to Dukkha?
the origin of dukkha can be known	The second truth is?
ignorance	The origin of dukkha is explained as craving conditioned by what?
true nature of things	The root cause of dukkha is identified as ignorance of what?
dukkha	The third noble truth is that the complete cessation of what is possible?
The Noble Eightfold Path	What is the fourth of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths?
lead to the cessation of dukkha	What is the purpose of the Noble Eightfold Path?
Right View (or Right Understanding), Right Intention (or Right Thought), Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration	What are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path?
the fourth	The Noble Eightfold Path is which of Buddha's Truths?
Eight	The fourth truth consists of how many factors?
the cessation of dukkha	What is the end goal of the Fourth Truth?
Right Action	What is one of the eight factors?
the fourth	The Noble Eightfold Path is which Noble Truth?
eight	The noble Eightfold path is a set of how many inerconnected factors?
dukkha	When the eight factors are developed together, is leads to the cessation of what?
Ajahn Sucitto	Who describes the Noble Eightfold Path as "a mandala of interconnected factors that support and moderate each other."?
as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour	How are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path to be understood?
mental, spoken, and bodily	What can one's behaviour be divided into?
Ajahn Sucitto	Who describes the path as "a mandala of interconnected factor that support and moderate each other"?
the yoga practice of his teacher Kalama with what later became known as "the immeasurables"	During his search for enlightenment, Gautama combined what teachings?
one without egotism	What was the new kind of human invented by Gautama?
brahmaviharas, divine abodes, or simply as four immeasurables	What are the Four Immeasurable Minds also known as?
mettā or loving-kindness meditation	What is the best known of the four immeasurables?
wholesome attitudes towards all sentient beings	The Four Immeasurables are taught as a form of meditation that cultivates what?
Kalama	Gautama combined the yoga practice of what teacher?
egotism	Gautama invented a new kind of human without what?
love, compassion, joy, and equanimity	What are the "four Immeasurable minds"?
Pema Chödrön	Who calls the four immeasurable minds "four limitless ones"?
meditation	The Four Immeasurables are taught as a form of what?
prior to his enlightenment	When did Gautama Buddha discover the Middle Way?
the Middle Way	An important guiding priciple of Buddhist practice is what?
enlightenment	Guatama discovered the middle path before his what?
Abhidharma, Buddhist philosophy and Reality in Buddhism	What are some of the theories and philosophies produced by Buddhist scholars?
Some schools of Buddhism discourage doctrinal study, and some regard it as essential practice.	Does Buddhism encourage or discourage doctrinal studies?
Buddhist scholars	Who has produced a number of theories and concepts such as Abhidharma and Reality in Buddhism?
doctrinal	Some schools within Buddhism discourage what type of study?
liberation	What is the goal of the Buddhist path?
suffering (dukkha) and the cycle of incessant rebirths (saṃsāra)	Upon awakening to the true nature of the self, what is one is liberated from?
nirvāṇa	Liberation is know as what?
nirvāṇa	What is the goal of the buddhist path?
objects	In awakening to the true nature of the self, one no longer care about what?
three	Buddha recommended viewing thing by how many marks of existence?
all compounded or conditioned phenomena (all things and experiences) are inconstant, unsteady, and impermanent	What is the meaning of impermanence in Buddhism?
in the aging process, the cycle of rebirth (saṃsāra), and in any experience of loss	According to the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence, how does life express impermanence?
because things are impermanent	Why is attachment to things futile?
Everything	What is in a constant flux?
ceasing to be	Everything is continuously coming into being and what?
saṃsāra	The cycle of rebirth is also called what?
suffering	According to doctrine, because all thing don't last, attachment can lead to what?
suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness, sorrow, affliction, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress, misery, and frustration	The term dukkha corresponds to what English terms?
disquietude	Dukkha is often translated as suffering, but the philosophical meaning of dukkha of more closely related to what term?
realistic	Buddhism seeks to be neither pessimistic or optimistic, but what?
Buddhism	Suffering is a central concept in what?
disquietude	The philosophical meaning of suffering is close what term?
disquietude	The condition of being disturbed is what?
dukkha	In translation what term is often left untranslated to keep of fuller definition?
Not-self (Pāli: anatta; Sanskrit: anātman)	What is the third mark of existence in Buddhism?
suffering	The Buddha rejected the metaphysical assertions "I have a Self" and "I have no Self" as views that bind one to what?
the Buddha refused to answer	What was the answer given when the Buddha was asked if the body is the same as the self?
neither the respective parts nor the person as a whole comprise a self	What is the conclusion that one comes to when analyzing the changing physical and mental components or person or thing?

31

How many planes of existence are there?

Pure Abodes

What are the higher heavens called?

anāgāmis

What are skilled Buddhists called?

formless realms

What is another name for Ārūpyadhātu?

arūpajhānas

What is the highest object of meditation called?

31

How many planes of existence?

anāgāmis

Skilled buddhist practictioners that can get to the higher heavens are known as what?

arūpajhānas

What is the highest object of meditation?

formless realms

What does arupyadhatu mean?

East Asian and Tibetan

There is a transitional state between one life and the next according to what branches of Buddhism?

Theravada

What branch of Buddhism rejects that there is a transitional state between lives?

Samyutta Nikaya of the Pali Canon

Passages in what teaching support the idea that the Buddha taught of a stage between lives?

bardo

What is the state called between lives?

Theravada

Which major part of Buddhism rejects bardo?

Samyutta Nikaya

What book discusses bardo?

East Asian

Other than Tibetan Buddhism, what other Buddhism supports bardo?

East Asian and Tibetan

There is an intermediate state between one life and the next according to what Buddism?

orthodox

What type of Theravada rejects the intermediate state idea?

Pali

Some passages of what Canon support the idea of intermediate stages?

the Four Noble Truths

What is considered to be central to the teachings of Buddhism?

the nature of dukkha (suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness), its causes, and how it can be overcome

What do the Four Noble Truths explain?

the Four Noble Truths

What teachings are the most important to Buddhism?

suffering

What part of Dukkha deals with pain?

Four Noble Truths

What is considered central to the teachings of Buddhism?

dukkha

The four truths explain the nature of what?

the nature of dukkha

What does the first of the Four Noble Truths explain?

"suffering", "anxiety", "unsatisfactoriness", "unease", etc.

What is Dukkha?

Dukkha

What does the first truth cover?

suffering

What is another word for Dukkha?

anxiety

What is another nature of Dukkha?

three

How many aspects are there to Dukkha?

unsatisfactoriness

Dukkha can be translated as what word in regards to unhappiness?

Dukkha

Suffering, anxiety, unsatisfactoriness, and unease is the translation of what word?

three

How many aspects does dukkha have?

that the origin of dukkha can be known

What does the second of the Four Noble Truths explain?

craving (Pali: tanha) conditioned by ignorance (Pali: avijja)

What is the origin of dukkha?

the complete cessation of dukkha is possible

What is the third of the Four Noble Truths explain?

identifies a path to this cessation

What is the fourth of the Four Noble Truths explain?

dukkha can be known.

What is the second truth?

craving

How is the meaning of Dukkha explained?

ignorance

What is a contributing factor to Dukkha?

the origin of dukkha can be known

The second truth is?

ignorance

The origin of dukkha is explained as craving conditioned by what?

true nature of things

The root cause of dukkha is identified as ignorance of what?

dukkha

The third noble truth is that the complete cessation of what is possible?

The Noble Eightfold Path

What is the fourth of the Buddha's Four Noble Truths?

lead to the cessation of dukkha

What is the purpose of the Noble Eightfold Path?

Right View (or Right Understanding), Right Intention (or Right Thought), Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration

What are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path?

the fourth

The Noble Eightfold Path is which of Buddha's Truths?

Eight

The fourth truth consists of how many factors?

the cessation of dukkha

What is the end goal of the Fourth Truth?

Right Action

What is one of the eight factors?

the fourth

The Noble Eightfold Path is which Noble Truth?

eight

The noble Eightfold path is a set of how many inerconnected factors?

dukkha

When the eight factors are developed together, is leads to the cessation of what?

Ajahn Sucitto

Who describes the Noble Eightfold Path as "a mandala of interconnected factors that support and moderate each other."?

as eight significant dimensions of one's behaviour

How are the eight factors of the Noble Eightfold Path to be understood?

mental, spoken, and bodily

What can one's behaviour be divided into?

Ajahn Sucitto

Who describes the path as "a mandala of interconnected factor that support and moderate each other"?

the yoga practice of his teacher Kalama with what later became known as "the immeasurables"

During his search for enlightenment, Gautama combined what teachings?

one without egotism

What was the new kind of human invented by Gautama?

brahmaviharas, divine abodes, or simply as four immeasurables

What are the Four Immeasurable Minds also known as?

mettā or loving-kindness meditation

What is the best known of the four immeasurables?

wholesome attitudes towards all sentient beings

The Four Immeasurables are taught as a form of meditation that cultivates what?

Kalama

Gautama combined the yoga practice of what teacher?

egotism

Gautama invented a new kind of human without what?

love, compassion, joy, and equanimity

What are the "four Immeasurable minds"?

Pema Chödrön

Who calls the four immeasurable minds "four limitless ones"?

meditation

The Four Immeasurables are taught as a form of what?

prior to his enlightenment

When did Gautama Buddha discover the Middle Way?

the Middle Way

An important guiding priciple of Buddhist practice is what?

enlightenment

Guatama discovered the middle path before his what?

Abhidharma, Buddhist philosophy and Reality in Buddhism

What are some of the theories and philosophies produced by Buddhist scholars?

Some schools of Buddhism discourage doctrinal study, and some regard it as essential practice.

Does Buddhism encourage or discourage doctrinal studies?

Buddhist scholars

Who has produced a number of theories and concepts such as Abhidharma and Reality in Buddhism?

doctrinal

Some schools within Buddhism discourage what type of study?

liberation

What is the goal of the Buddhist path?

suffering (dukkha) and the cycle of incessant rebirths (saṃsāra)

Upon awakening to the true nature of the self, what is one is liberated from?

nirvāṇa

Liberation is know as what?

nirvāṇa

What is the goal of the buddhist path?

objects

In awakening to the true nature of the self, one no longer care about what?

three

Buddha recommended viewing thing by how many marks of existence?

all compounded or conditioned phenomena (all things and experiences) are inconstant, unsteady, and impermanent

What is the meaning of impermanence in Buddhism?

in the aging process, the cycle of rebirth (saṃsāra), and in any experience of loss

According to the Buddhist doctrine of impermanence, how does life express impermanence?

because things are impermanent

Why is attachment to things futile?

Everything

What is in a constant flux?

ceasing to be

Everything is continuously coming into being and what?

saṃsāra

The cycle of rebirth is also called what?

suffering

According to doctrine, because all thing don't last, attachment can lead to what?

suffering, pain, unsatisfactoriness, sorrow, affliction, anxiety, dissatisfaction, discomfort, anguish, stress, misery, and frustration

The term dukkha corresponds to what English terms?

disquietude

Dukkha is often translated as suffering, but the philosophical meaning of dukkha of more closely related to what term?

realistic

Buddhism seeks to be neither pessimistic or optimistic, but what?

Buddhism

Suffering is a central concept in what?

disquietude

The philosophical meaning of suffering is close what term?

disquietude

The condition of being disturbed is what?

dukkha

In translation what term is often left untranslated to keep of fuller definition?

Not-self (Pāli: anatta; Sanskrit: anātman)

What is the third mark of existence in Buddhism?

suffering

The Buddha rejected the metaphysical assertions "I have a Self" and "I have no Self" as views that bind one to what?

the Buddha refused to answer

What was the answer given when the Buddha was asked if the body is the same as the self?

neither the respective parts nor the person as a whole comprise a self

What is the conclusion that one comes to when analyzing the changing physical and mental components or person or thing?