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Chapter 7 Self Quiz - Fill ins
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The fourth _______ states that the way to remove desire, or craving, is to follow the Eightfold Path.
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A more traditionalist Mahayana school that arose in response to the Pure Land school and shifted the concept of "other power" to self-power, or individual effort to reach nirvana, was called Ch'an in China and _______ in Japan.
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The third large division of Buddhism that developed a few hundred years after the first two divisions is called _______.
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One of the most popular _______ Buddhist scriptures in East Asia and the one that shifts the religious ideal from the arhat to the bodhisattva is called the
Lotus Sutra
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By the year 100 CE, Buddhism had entered _______ through central Asia on the silk routes.
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The state of nirvana means freedom and existence in an eternal state beyond all _______ description.
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The monk Nagarjuna, in the second century CE, was writing in opposition to the _______ branch of Buddhism.
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The Three Refuges include the Buddha, the Dharma, and the _______.
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The central institution that perpetuated the faith of Buddhism was the monastic community called the _______.
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Buddhism goes beyond the Hindu practice of trance, or
Samadhi
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vipashyana
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_______ are word chains known for their spiritual powers when recited or chanted.
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_______ is the world of suffering and rebirth.
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Unlike the philosophers and scholars of Buddhism, Buddhists-at-large still concentrate their devotional activities on rituals and accumulating _______.
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_______ is the world's only nation that has Tibetan Buddhism as its state religion.
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The most recognized Buddhist in the world today and a Nobel Peace Prize winner is the fourteenth _______.
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A country that has remained one of the few refuges for Tibetan Buddhists, and until recently the world's only Hindu kingdom, also one of the world's poorest nations, is _______.
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The realization of enlightenment is called _______.
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Today the majority of Buddhists are of the _______ branch of Buddhism.
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Buddhism could not have existed and grown in society at large without the support of the _______.
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The earliest and strongest Euro-American contact with Buddhism in the early twentieth century was with the _______ branch of Buddhism.
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