THERAVADA BUDDHISM QUIZ

Who founded Theravada Buddhism?

According to Buddha, the problem of suffering goes much deeper. Human beings are subject to desires and cravings, but even when they are able to satisfy these desires, the satisfaction is only temporary.

• Samudaya

• Dukkha

• Nirodha

• Magga

The Buddha taught that the way to extinguish desire, which causes suffering, is to liberate oneself from attachment.

• Samudaya

• Dukkha

• Nirodha

• Magga

This path is a process to help a person remove or move beyond the conditioned responses that obscure his true nature. In this sense the Path is ultimately about unlearning rather than learning.

• Samudaya

• Dukkha

• Nirodha

• Magga

The Buddha taught that the root of all sufferings is desire or ‘tanha’.

• Samudaya

• Dukkha

• Nirodha

• Magga

Represents the Buddhist dharma - Gautama Buddha’s teaching of the path to nirvana, since the time of early Buddhism.

• Nirvana

• Dharma Wheel

• Eight-fold path

• Tripitaka

The sacred text of Buddhism

It is believed that the Buddha came to understand these basic principles of human existence during his meditation under the Bodhi Tree.

All are considered the ultimate causes of suffering except:

• Greed and desire

• Ignorance and delusion

• Selfishness and cruelty

• Hatred and destructive urges

The fourth of the Four Noble Truths and the first of the Buddha’s teachings. All other teachings flow from this foundation.