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Who were the followers of Vedic religion and what were the earliest scriptures?
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-Hindus
4 Vedas: Rig Veda, Sama Veda, Yajur Veda, Athana Veda |
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What or who are Brahman and Atman?
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Brahman are priests
Atman is the self |
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What is the relationship between Arjuna and Krishman in the Bhagavad Gita?
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Arjuna is the prince and warrior and he seeks cousel from Krishna, a demigod
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What was Arjuna's great question, and what answer did he receive?
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Arjuna questioned the morality of leading men into baattle against his family, desiring the life on an ascetic instead. He was scolded for karmic immaturity and told to fulfill his societal role.
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What are the four classes in early Hinduism, and what is the role of these classes?
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1. Brahman - priests
2. Kshatriya (warriors, householders) 3. Vaishya (farmers, cowherds, merchants) 4. Shudra (laborers, servants) 4. Untouchables (grave diggers, metal smiths) |
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What are the Four Noble Truths
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1. Suffering
2. Suffering leads to attachment 3. End 4. Eight-fold noble path |
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What are the three marks of existence?
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1. Suffering
2. Impermeance 3. Att |
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Who are Maya, Yasodhara, and Sujata?
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-Maya is Buddha's mother who died in childbirth
-Yasodhara is Buddha's wife - Sujata is the maiden that gave Buddha food beside the river when he was seeking enlightenment. |
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What are Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha?
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-Buddha is the awakened one
-Dharma is the teaching of awakening, reality, law - Sangha is the religious community of Buddhist monks and nuns |
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What are Sutra, Sastra and Vinaya?
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They make up the three baskets.
-Sutra is the record of what the Nuddha or other enlightened individuals taught -Sastra is the commentary on the sustra -Vinaya is the rule book for nuns and monks. |
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What is the two-fold truth of Nagarjuna?
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Truth which consists of two aspects of reality, inseperable from one another like the two sides of a coin.
Form/emptiness Duality/nonduality Distinction/beyond distinction |
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What is the tetra lemma or four-step logic of Nagarjuna?
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1. A exists (form)
2. A doesn't exist (emptiness) 3. A both exists and doesn't exist (form and emptiness) 4. A neither exists nor doesn't exist (neither form nor emptiness, also emptiness of emptiness) |
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What is a bodhisattva?
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One who refuses enlightenment unless all beings attain enlightenment.
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What are the four middles described by Jizang (Chi-ts'ang)?
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The middle way which captures both form and emptiness, hitting the mark on target
1. Comparative middle - achieves truth by avoiding extremes of eternalism and annihilationalism. 2. Exhaustive middle - achieve truth by applying comparative middle to different situations, there is no fixed position called "middle" 3. Absolute middle: absolute awareness, not having to apply a formula to break through attached thinking. Residing in nondual awareness. 4. Creative middle: lives creatively in the world of distinction to free others from the ills of discursive logic. |
