Bodhisattva test!
Bodhisattva test!
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1.What does the word ‘bodhisattva’ mean?
2.(i)What two qualities must he perfect?
(ii) What teaching of the Buddha do Mahayana
Buddhists say the qualities show?
3.Name the six paramitas (3 in Sanskrit; 3 in
English!)
4.Name any two of the four transcendental
perfections
5.What are the 10 stages known as collectively?
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6.Write out the bodhisattva vow
7.When a bodhisattva becomes transcendent,
what is he no longer ‘tied to’?
8.What is the main quality a transcendent
bodhisattva has over an earthly bodhisattva?
9.What is the ‘bodhisattva paradox’?
10.Name any two bodhisattvas and give one of
their qualities for each of the bodhisattvas you
state.
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11.If the ideal of the Mahayana is the bodhisattva,
what is the ideal of the Theravada school?
12.What is actually being rejected from the
Theravada school’s ideal?
13.A bodhisattva has ‘maha – karuna – citta’ – what is
this?
14.A bodhisattva has ‘Buddha – jnana’ – what is this?
15.Finish this quote from the Lankavatara sutra – “I
shall not enter into final nirvana….”?
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16.What three thoughts must be in the heart of
a bodhisattva?
17.Is the bodhisattva more or less important
than the Buddha?
18.What is a bodhisattva’s first duty?
19.How would the story of the hungry tigress
show that a bodhisattva could put his life at
stake?
20.What does ‘skill in means’ mean?
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21.Why do some see the bodhisattva ideal as
popular?
22.State two differences between the Buddha
and a bodhisattva
23.State one criticism of the bodhisattva ideal
24.Name the three ways a bodhisattva can
show compassion
25.In helping others, how can a bodhisattva
‘help himself’?
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26.Who is the Dalai Lama supposed to be the
incarnation of?
27.What is the chief quality of Maitreya, the
bodhisattva/Buddha to come?
28.In what Mahayana scripture would you find the
following words? “Indeed, just as one worships the
new and not the full moon; just so, those who believe
in me should worship the bodhisattva”
29.Who does a bodhisattva make his vow to?
30.Where may a bodhisattva deliberately choose to be
born into?