QUIZ 496

Check your Knowledge Quotient!

1. Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Sramana (renunciation) movement common in his region.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

2. Accounts of Buddha's life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

           

3. Buddhist teachings were first committed to writing about 400 years later after Buddha's death.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

4. Buddhacarita is the earliest full biography, an epic poem written by the poet Aśvaghosa.

           

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

5. The Lalitavistara Sūtra is the next oldest biography (after Buddhacarita), a Mahāyāna/Sarvāstivāda biography dating to the 3rd century CE.

A. True

B. False

C. Both of the above

D. None of the above

Best of luck!

Answers

1 – A, 2 – A, 3 – A, 4 – A, 5 – A