I must be but in a phase of self-mortification ’cause I got EXAM I on May 23rd, 2025 – 8.5 days from now, where I’m gonna have to know all this. A 16 week course in Buddhism in 6 weeks? Maybe that’s just absurdism. ☸︎? Nah.👶♻.
The Vedas
The Caste System
Dharma
Renouncers
Ascetic
Yoga
Samsara
Karma
Moksha
Jnana
The birth of the Buddha
The astrological prediciton
The early life of the Buddha
The four sights
The Buddha’s first practice as a renouncer
The Buddha’s practice as an extreme ascetic
Buddhism as the Middle Way
The three stages of the Buddha’s enlightenment
Six Realms of Samsara
Mara
Three poisons
What role does Brahma, the Hindu creator god, play in early Buddhism?
Turning the Wheel of Dharma
Who was the Buddha’s first audience?
Dukkha (traditional and contemporary translations)
The Three Marks of Existence dukkha, annica, and anatta
Five Aggregates form, feelings, perception, consciousness, mental formations
How does This is Water illustrate Buddhist themes?
What is the second Noble Truth?
What does Tanha mean?
What does dependent origination or dependent arising refer to? What is its fundamental principle or fundamental argument?
What are the twelve links of dependent origination or dependent arising?
How can we break these twelve links into three categories?
What is the third Noble Truth?
What is the literal translation of Nibanna (Pali) or Nirvana (Sanskrit)?
How does the turtle and who does the fish represent in the story of the turtle and fish?
What are the two types of Nirvana?
Give an example of a negative term used to describe Nirvana
Give an example of a positive terms used to describe Nirvana
The Fourth Noble Truth. What is it?
The three main categories of the Noble Eightfold Path
The eight aspects of the Noble Eightfold Path
The Four Holy Persons