The year in which Siddhartha Gautama was born is ________.

The second highest of the four varnas or social classes of Hindu society, traditionally associated with the warrior or military class, to which Siddhartha Gautama's family belonged is ________.

Severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of worldly pleasures and material satisfaction, typically for religious or spiritual reasons, is known as ________.

A person who lives a life of asceticism, typically a very simple and strict life of fasting and prayer, without pleasures or comfort, is known as ________.

A religious ascetic who relies mostly on donations from others to survive is known as ________.

An event in the life of the founder that is revered by Buddhists as the triumph of the spiritual over the worldly life, where he left the luxury and power of his royal life, as well as his wife and son, in order to pursue life as a mendicant is known as ________.

A basic Buddhist teaching that rejects both the pleasures of sensual indulgence and the self-denial of asceticism, focusing instead on a practical approach to spiritual enlightenment is known as ________.

According to Buddhist tradition, the specific sacred fig tree in Bihar, India under which the founder sat and attained Enlightenment is known as ________.

The term meaning "Awakened One," which is another name for Siddhartha Gautama and a title for anyone who has achieved nirvana, is ________.

The Sanskrit term for "community," which refers to the Buddhist community of monks and nuns and is one of the Three Jewels of Buddhism, is ________.

This term is used to refer to Buddhist teachings (and is different from Hindu meaning of it)

Siddartha Gautama, aka Buddha, denied the existence of deities.

In Buddhism, this term literally means "blowing up." This is the ultimate goal of all Buddhists, the extinction of desire and any sense of individual selfhood, resulting in liberation from samsara.

This term refers to the spiritual leader of Tibetan (Vajrayana) Buddhism, believed to be the incarnation of bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.

After Buddha died, his followers collected his teachings and memorized them. Centuries later, they were written down on palm leaves and placed in three baskets, and called

Which statement best matches Buddhist teaching about alcohol and intoxicants?

Where did Buddhism begin?