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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. All Buddhism knows the story of the ascetic, _____.

2. What are devas?

3. The notion of self is born of _____.

4. The Buddha apparently approved of worship at _____.

5. How long have people been wandering through samsara?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the sense of self spring from delusion?

2. What is the Buddhist view of faith on the cognitive and effective modes?

3. What does Nagasena tell the king about the self?

4. What attitudes do the Mahayana sutras display toward the bodhisattva?

5. What is the legend of Megha?

6. How are the thirty-one levels of existence classified? Who resides in these realms?

7. What is access concentration in meditation?

8. Why was vegetarianism not an explicit tenet of early Buddhism? What questions did this bring up?

9. What did the Buddha say of the beginning of samsara?

10. What is causal connectedness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain the role of suffering in Buddhism. What are the three kinds of suffering? What is the significance of each one in Buddhism?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the Indian renouncer tradition. What do people who undertake this tradition do? Why do they do this?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the concept of dharma. How does this relate to Buddhism?

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