Understanding Buddha-nature and Buddhist Beliefs

What is central to the Buddha's teachings?

• Overcoming suffering

• Practicing yoga

• Chanting mantras

• Fasting regularly

What do Mahayana Buddhists believe about enlightenment?

• Only through meditation

• Only monks can achieve it

• It is impossible to achieve

• Everyone can achieve it

What is Buddha-nature?

• A type of Buddhist meditation

• The nature within all humans to become enlightened

• A ritual in Mahayana Buddhism

• A sacred text in Buddhism

What must people commit to in order to achieve Buddhahood and enlightenment?

• Isolation in meditation

• Pilgrimage to sacred sites

• Fasting and silence

• The Dhamma and The Sangha

Who is considered an arhat in Theravada Buddhism?

• A person who has achieved enlightenment

• A beginner in Buddhist practice

• A teacher of meditation

• A deity worshipped in Buddhism

What have arhats 'blown out'?

• Historical texts

• The Three Poisons: greed, hatred, and ignorance

• Candles on an altar

• Conflicts within the community

What is the ultimate goal of an arhat?

• To lead a monastery

• To become a Bodhisattva

• To achieve nibbana

• To write a Buddhist scripture

What distinguishes a Bodhisattva's path from an arhat's in Mahayana Buddhism?

• Seeking personal enlightenment above all

• Helping others to reach enlightenment

• Living in complete solitude

• Performing daily sacrifices

What are the Six Perfections practiced by Mahayana Buddhists?

• Generosity, morality, patience, energy, meditation, wisdom

• Fasting, chanting, solitude, pilgrimage, study, charity

• Yoga, meditation, study, teaching, fasting, silence

• Charity, study, worship, pilgrimage, teaching, meditation

What does achieving enlightenment mean in Buddhism?

• Becoming a leader in the Buddhist community

• Completing a pilgrimage to all sacred Buddhist sites

• Realising the truth about life and breaking free from the cycle of rebirth

• Gaining supernatural powers