Dharma
  1. What are the three significant events associated with Vaisakha Poornima (Vesak day)?
  2. What is the main cause for Samsara?
  3. What are the names in Sanskrit and Pali for the mindfulness meditation on breath?
  4. Where are the four major Tibetan settlements in Karnataka?
  5. Name the deities of wisdom in Buddhist tradition
  6. Name the scholar from south India who lived during 7th century and wrote the treatise “Pramanavarttika” (Commentary on valid cognition). This treatise is one of the most important works in Buddhist logic and epistemology and studied by all the four schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
  7. Name the abbot from Vikramasila University who traveled to Tibet upon invitation from the emperor of Tibet to establish the first monastic university there.
  8. List the eight-fold path to liberation
  9. What are the six paramitas (perfections) in the path of Mahayana?
  10. Name the four immeasurable attitudes (Brahma-vihara)
  11. What is the name of the treatise that Maitreya passed down to Asanga describing the stages of realizations in the path of a Bodhisatva to Buddhahood
  12. Which sutra is the source for the following verse?
    “rupam sunyata, sunyataiva rupam,
    rupanna prthak sunyata, sunyata na prthag rupam.”
    (Form is emptiness, emptiness is form, emptiness is not
    different from form, form is not different from emptiness)


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Compiled By
Ramesh Kumar

Answers

  1. Birth, enlightenment and passing away of Sakyamuni Buddha
  2. Ignorance (Avidya)
  3. Pranapana smrti (Sanskrit), Anapana Sati (Pali)
  4. Bylakuppe and Hunsur in Mysore district, Mundgod in Uttara Kannada district, and Kolligal in Chamarajanagar district
  5. Manjusri and Saraswati
  6. Dharmakirti
  7. Santarakshita
  8. Right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, right view, right intention
  9. Generosity (Dana), Discipline (Sila), Patience (Kshanti), Heroic perseverance (Virya), Concentration (Dhyana), Wisdom (Prajna)
  10. Love (Maitri), Compassion (Karuna), Sympathetic joy (Mudita), Equanimity (Upeksha)
  11. Abhisamayalamkara (The ornament for clear realizations)
  12. Arya-bhagavati-prajna-paramita-hrdaya-sutra (Heart sutra)
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