BBC, The Life of the Buddha
1. How many years before Christ did the Buddha live?
2. The Dahli Lama calls Buddha the symbol of p______, c______, non-______.
3. How many followers of Buddhism are there today?
4. Buddhists use meditation is used to attain ______and ______.
5. Buddhism’s focus on attaining calm and mental clarity causes three views of it: as r______, as a ph______, and as a ps______th______.
6. Unlike other religions, Buddhism centers on the m______and has no supreme G_____.
7. The Buddha is a great teacher called “The ______One.”
8. Buddhism is all but gone in India due to H______K______and M______invaders.
9.In the 19th century, B______a______began searching for sites associated with the historical Buddha.
10. A pillar marks where the Buddha was ______and research has suggested his childhood home is in Talaurakot, also in Nepal.
11. The Buddha’s father was K______of the Shakyas, a tribe inhabiting the land at the foothills of the H______Mountains.
12. Buddha’s mother, Maya, had a dream on the night of a full ______that told a being called the Buddha was about to be re-______on earth.
13. Four guardian deities were to have carried Maya to the top of the H______.
14. Maya is to have been impregnated with the child who becomes the Buddha by a w______e______with six tusks who carried a lotus flower in his trunk and entered her ______.
15. The Buddha chose the t______and p______where he would be born.
16. Siddhartha, the Buddha’s birth name, means every w______fulfilled.
17. The Brahmin priest says Siddhartha has 32 marks of an extraordinary being, including the mark of a w______on his feet.
18. Siddhartha’s father wants him to be a great p______leader, not a r______leader, so he tries to protect his son from seeing things that would cause him to do the latter.
19. Siddhartha had exceptional skills in kingly sports, such as f______, w______, and a______.
20. However, Siddhartha was also deeply i______and especially interested in understanding the nature of the w______around him.
21. At age of nine, when Siddhartha leaves the palace for the first time he witnesses a f______laboring, watched bird eat a w______--which leads to him ask why humans must s______.
22. As Siddhartha contemplates, he realizes all things are c______and that all actions have c______--which later informs his teaching known as k______.
23. As Siddhartha watches the plow intently, he slips into a trance, or jhana, also known as m______, which he later uses as a tool on his spiritual quest.
24. Siddhartha’s father tries to tempt his son to remain in the palace by creating a perfectly seductive world, including beautiful m______to e______and offer him p______.
25. At 16, the King found Siddhartha a b______.
26. In an attempt to keep Siddhartha from seeing any eyesores, the king has the area around the palace cleared of the s______, the o___ and the p______.
27. Siddhartha sets out with Channa, his servant, on four separate journeys from the palace and sees four separate signs, which were:
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28. When Siddhartha asks why a man would renounce all comforts and pleasures to wander as a mendicant, Channa tells him the monk does it to confront r______and seek answers to this p______existence.
29. The commentator says the story account of Siddhartha’s realization is an account that shows the existential crisis when we realize in our heart that not just others, but we are going to…
30. Siddhartha leaves not only his father, but his wife and his ______.
Siddhartha betrays his family and his father’s religion of B______, which says one must follow in his father’s footsteps.
31. Beside the river, Siddhartha takes off his ______, cuts off his ______, and gives away his ______.
32. In what place did Siddhartha witness the intense suffering, which may account for the Buddha’s emphasis on suffering?
33. In order to seek universal relief from suffering for all people Siddhartha had to challenge which dominant religion?
34. The Brahmins believe that sacred knowledge is only available to them through sacred texts, called the Vedas, which means “knowledge.”
35. A Brahman’s knowledge could only be handed down to their ______, which excludes all others from achieving enlightenment.
36. Siddhartha realizes relief from suffering must be available not just to the exclusive few, but to _____.
37. The Buddha famously says, “One does not become a Brahmin by ______; one becomes a Brahmin by ______well.
38. Two kinds of meditation in India included controlling b______or purposely seeking d______, both with the aim of attaining altered states of c______.
39. The different planes of existence that the meditator attempts to reach are the plane of the infinity of ______, the plane of the infinity of ______, and the plane of the infinity of ______.
40. Even though he excels, Siddhartha leaves his meditation teachers and followers because he thinks meditation practice alone is not the solution to the cycle of s______and re-______.
41. The next method he tries, called harsh a______, focuses on his body and includes f______, not w______, meditation while holding the b______.
42. For ascetics the physical body is a barrier to s______l______.
43. Siddhartha fasted so long he nearly starved to death, but he is saved by a g_____, who offers him a b______of r______.
44. He is supposed to have lived on one g______per day, but finally comes to the conclusion that making the body suffer will not solve the problem of s______.
45. When his five followers abandon him, Siddhartha goes back to the joyful m______he practiced as a teen—which does not involve renunciation of the body.
46. Siddhartha discovers the “Middle Way” when he observes a musician tuning his sitar, noticing the tuneful harmony was achieved only when the s______was neither too t______or too l______.
47. He realizes the state of tuneful harmony would give him e______, a state of lasting wisdom and bliss.
48. After six years, Siddhartha sits under a bodhi tree, vowing not to leave until he reaches…
49. Under the tree, he focuses his mind by focusing on the movement of what?
50. As he meditates, Siddhartha gets his mind to s______or q______.
51. He reaches the darkest reaches of his unconscious mind, where he confronts the demon Mara, the lord of e__ and i______.
52. Mara is not equal to S______because he is not a counterpart to ______. He is purely p______, is within us.
53. Mara releases and army of d______to attack Siddhartha. They fired flaming arrows, which he turned into lotus b______.
54. Having failed, Mara then tries to seduce Siddhartha with his…
55. Mara is the king of d______and d______.
56. Siddhartha wins the battle against the daughters because he exhibits no p______or r______, causing their faces to ______as they sunk back into the earth.
57. The total recognition that ______is ______may constitute his e______.
58. Siddhartha becomes the A______O____ at the age of _____. He spends _____ days under the tree in meditative bliss.
59. In his blissful meditation, the Buddha realizes if we get rid of d______we can remove suffering and dissatisfaction from our lives.
60. The difference between how we want ______and how they really ____ is what causes our suffering.
61. The foundation of all Buddhist thought is the F____ N______T______.
62. The Buddha teaches that m______, m______, and w______were the stepping stones to enlightenment.
63. The priest says to explain Buddhism in two word: P______m______.
64. The moral precepts, as listed by the priest are:
Not to k______
Not to s______
Not to engage in s______m______
Not to l____
Not to indulge in i______
65. After ____ years, the Buddha returned home, and his father f______him, and his stepmother begged to join his sanga (monastery) and went on to become the first Buddhist n______.
66. Before leaving to teach for ____ more years, the Buddha ordained his s______as a m_____.
67. Buddhist monks must be c______and give up every s______d______.
68. Some schools of Buddhism believe the Buddha was s______and consorted with G______and performed m______. Other schools maintain he was no more than a h______b______.
69. The Buddha dies at the age of ______from f_____ p______.
70. It is said before dying he fell into a t______before reaching N______, a state of eternal bliss, outside of time and space, birth and death.