Chapter 7 Self Quiz - Fill ins

. The fourth _______ states that the way to remove desire, or craving, is to follow the Eightfold Path.

. 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.

. The third large division of Buddhism that developed a few hundred years after the first two divisions is called _______.

. 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.

. By the year 100 CE, Buddhism had entered _______ through central Asia on the silk routes.

. The state of nirvana means freedom and existence in an eternal state beyond all _______ description.

. The monk Nagarjuna, in the second century CE, was writing in opposition to the _______ branch of Buddhism.

. The Three Refuges include the Buddha, the Dharma, and the _______.

. The central institution that perpetuated the faith of Buddhism was the monastic community called the _______.

. Buddhism goes beyond the Hindu practice of trance, or Samadhi, in teaching that _______ meditation, or vipashyana, is required to achieve nirvana realization.

. _______ are word chains known for their spiritual powers when recited or chanted.

. _______ is the world of suffering and rebirth.

. Unlike the philosophers and scholars of Buddhism, Buddhists-at-large still concentrate their devotional activities on rituals and accumulating _______.

. _______ is the world's only nation that has Tibetan Buddhism as its state religion.

. The most recognized Buddhist in the world today and a Nobel Peace Prize winner is the fourteenth _______.

. 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 _______.

. The realization of enlightenment is called _______.

. Today the majority of Buddhists are of the _______ branch of Buddhism.

. Buddhism could not have existed and grown in society at large without the support of the _______.

. The earliest and strongest Euro-American contact with Buddhism in the early twentieth century was with the _______ branch of Buddhism.

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