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AQA Buddhist Beliefs - Key terms 1

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is Dhamma (Dharma) ?

a)

The Buddha's teachings

b)

A type of suffering

c)

The Buddhist Community

d)

A name for the Buddha himself

2.

What is the Sangha ?

a)

The Buddha's teachings

b)

A type of suffering

c)

The Buddhist Community

d)

A name for the Buddha himself

3.

Which is NOT one of the three refuges?

a)

The Buddha

b)

Annica

c)

The Dhamma

d)

The Sangha

4.

What is the Dependent arising?

a)

The bottom rung on the Tibetan Wheel

b)

The idea that all things arise in dependence upon conditions

c)

A way to achieve Nibbana

d)

One of the three watched

5.

Which is NOT one of the three watches of the night?

a)

Knowledge of all previous lives

b)

Understanding the repeating cycle of birth, death and rebirth

c)

Overcoming Mara

d)

Understanding why suffering happens and how to overcome it

6.

What are Niddanas?

a)

12 factors that illustrate the process of birth, death and rebirth

b)

Realms on the Tibetan Wheel of Life

c)

Breaking free from the endless cycle of birth, death and rebirth

d)

Having an undisciplined mind

7.

What was the language the earliest Buddhist scriptures were written?

a)

Pali

b)

Indian

c)

Sanskirt

d)

Punjabi

8.

What was the language used in later Indian Buddhist texts?

a)

Pali

b)

Indian

c)

Sanskirt

d)

Punjabi

9.

What is the repeating cycle of birth, death and rebirth called?

a)

Nidanas

b)

Samsara

c)

Kamma

d)

Nibanna

10.

What is the idea that skilful actions result in happiness and unskilful ones in suffering?

a)

Nidanas

b)

Samsara

c)

Kamma (Karma)

d)

Nibanna

11.

What is the state of complete enlightenment, happiness and peace? This is also breaking freeing oneself from the Tibetan Wheel of Life.

a)

Nidanas

b)

Samsara

c)

Kamma (Karma)

d)

Nibanna (Nirvana)

12.

What is the Tibetan Wheel of Life?

a)

The same as the dependent arising

b)

An image which symbolises samsara

c)

A method of Buddhist transportation

d)

A method of Buddhist worship

13.

Which is NOT one of the three marks of existence?

a)

Dukkha

b)

Annica

c)

Kamma

d)

Annata

14.

What is Dukkha?

a)

Suffering

b)

Ultimate love

c)

impermanence

d)

having no fixed self or soul

15.

What is Annica?

a)

Suffering

b)

Ultimate love

c)

impermanence

d)

having no fixed self or soul

16.

What is Anatta?

a)

Suffering

b)

Ultimate love

c)

impermanence

d)

having no fixed self or soul

17.

What are the five aggregates (skandhas)?

a)

The first five followers of Buddha

b)

The five aspects that make up a person

c)

Five teachings Buddha taught after becoming enlightened

d)

One of the three refuges

18.

Which is NOT one of the five aggregates (skandhas)?

a)

Form (our bodies)

b)

Consciousness (our awareness of things)

c)

Sensation (our feelings)

d)

Dreaming (Our ability to process)

e)

Perception (our recognition of what things are)

19.

What are the four noble truths?

a)

The four things Buddha saw upon leaving the palace

b)

The four truths Buddha taught about suffering

c)

The four truth Buddha taught about death

d)

The four truths Buddha taught about enlightenment

20.

Which is NOT one of the four truths?

a)

Kamma - Skilfull action is important

b)

Dukkha - There is suffering

c)

Samudaya - There are causes of suffering

d)

Magga - The Eightfold Path

e)

Nirodhi - suffering can be stopped

21.

Which type of Buddhism follows the school of elders and is mostly found in southern Asia?

a)

Theravada Buddhism

b)

Zen Buddhism

c)

Mahayana Buddhism

d)

Western Buddhism

22.

Which type of Buddhism is an umbrella term used to describe later Buddhist traditions such as Pure Land Buddhist, Tibetan Buddhism and Zen Buddhism?

a)

Theravada Buddhism

b)

Green Buddhism

c)

Mahayana Buddhism

d)

Western Buddhism