Buddhism

What are the basic teachings of Buddhism called?

• Ten Commandments
• Shar'ia Law
• The Four Noble Truths
• The Five Noble Truths

Where did Buddhism originate and where did it spread?

• China.  Leading faith in the Americas and Middle East.
• China.  Spread to the rest of Asia
• India.  Leading religion in the Americas and the Middle East
• India.  Leading faith in Southeast Asia, Central Asia, China, Japan & Korea

Buddha's real name was Siddhartha Gautama.

• True

• False

What does the word Buddha mean?

• enlightened

• chosen

• to wake or be enlightened

• predicted

Buddha is a person not a title.

• true

• false

There has been/ will only be one Buddha; his name is Siddhartha Gautama.

• true

• false

The title of Buddha is

• a term that shows a person has attained supreme truth and wisdom

• a term that shows a person has gone to a religious school

• a term that shows that a person is well known and liked

Match the following

• focuses on life on earth, not the afterlife

• Buddha

• Hindu prince in 500s BC who was disillusioned with the realities of life

• Buddhism

• said he was not a god, and that whether or not there is a god is not important

• Siddhartha Gautama

Gautama was of the ​ (a)   caste, but said that a ​ (b)   born person could gain enough ​ (c)   in one lifetime to escape the cycle of ​ (d)   .

• warrior
• low
• wisdom
• death and rebirth
• high
• soldier
• religioin
• religion
• death
• rebirth

Why does Buddhism appeal to Hindus?

• they had been told that they earned their terrible living conditions

• they had been raised with the ideas of Buddhism

• it was a religion that matched the countries way of thinking