Intro to World Religions Exam 1 - Ameritech Questions and Answers Already Passed
How is Religion defined? - Answers A system of beliefs and moral behavior
Faith in God
Worship of supernatural beings
What are the Upanishads? - Answers Religious ancient text of spiritual teaching and ideas of Hinduism
What goal did Upanishads promote? - Answers Release at-man from endless cycle of reincarnation. Help
reach highest state of being
How do the Untouchables get their name? - Answers So IMPURE that they could not participate in Hindu
society; OUTCASTS
What is suttee? - Answers Practice whereby a widow mounted the funeral pyre of her late husband so as
to accompany him to the afterlife
What is dharma? - Answers a Core belief. Proper performance of religious DUTIES. "Okay" behaviors
What political method did Gandhi employ? - Answers Holding on to Truth (SATYAGRAHA)
and Passive resistance (exposing oppressors to truth of their evil)
Role astrologers play in Hindu rites of passage? - Answers Consultants; Called to establish most
auspicious (favorable) day, sometimes hour, for the three Samskaras (Sacred thread, marriage, and
funerary rites)
What is murti? - Answers an IDOL of Hindu God Ganesha; consecrated image used by gods to INTERACT
with worshipers
What are the eight limbs of Yoga? - Answers 1. Yama (abstention from violence, lying, sex, greed)
2. Niyama (observe purity, content, rigor, study, love of god)
3. Asana (body postures)
4. Pranayama (measured breathing)
5. Pratyahara (withdrawal from use of sense organs)
6. Dharana (concentration developed by focus on single object)
7. dhyana (meditation)
8. samadhi (union with brahman)
, How might Hindu patients frame illness and recovery? - Answers Blame on KARMA (body sick, soul is
not)
Illness toward following instruction
Rely on dharma principles to respond
What are the Four sights? - Answers What the Buddha saw:
OLD Man
SICK Man
CORPSE (death)
HOLY Man
what is an at-man? - Answers Devoid of any TRUE SELF (NO SELF)
Four Noble Truths - Answers 1. Dukkah (suffering in all things, discomfort, disappointment)
2. Dukkah caused by Trishna (desires or wants)
3. End Dukkah by eliminating Trishna (give up cravings)
4. Nirvana (live life according to eightfold, cessation of suffering)
Noble Eightfold Path? - Answers 1. Right UNDERSTANDING
2. Right INTENTIONS
3. Right SPEECH
4. Right BEHAVIOR
5. Right LIVELIHOOD
6. Right EFFORTS
7. Right MEDITATION
8. Right CONTEMPLATION
How are Buddha's teachings characterized? - Answers A thoroughgoing pragmatist (PRACTICAL
THINKING)
Community defined in Buddhism? - Answers SANGHA
Important Buddhist texts? - Answers Sutra-Pitaka
How is Religion defined? - Answers A system of beliefs and moral behavior
Faith in God
Worship of supernatural beings
What are the Upanishads? - Answers Religious ancient text of spiritual teaching and ideas of Hinduism
What goal did Upanishads promote? - Answers Release at-man from endless cycle of reincarnation. Help
reach highest state of being
How do the Untouchables get their name? - Answers So IMPURE that they could not participate in Hindu
society; OUTCASTS
What is suttee? - Answers Practice whereby a widow mounted the funeral pyre of her late husband so as
to accompany him to the afterlife
What is dharma? - Answers a Core belief. Proper performance of religious DUTIES. "Okay" behaviors
What political method did Gandhi employ? - Answers Holding on to Truth (SATYAGRAHA)
and Passive resistance (exposing oppressors to truth of their evil)
Role astrologers play in Hindu rites of passage? - Answers Consultants; Called to establish most
auspicious (favorable) day, sometimes hour, for the three Samskaras (Sacred thread, marriage, and
funerary rites)
What is murti? - Answers an IDOL of Hindu God Ganesha; consecrated image used by gods to INTERACT
with worshipers
What are the eight limbs of Yoga? - Answers 1. Yama (abstention from violence, lying, sex, greed)
2. Niyama (observe purity, content, rigor, study, love of god)
3. Asana (body postures)
4. Pranayama (measured breathing)
5. Pratyahara (withdrawal from use of sense organs)
6. Dharana (concentration developed by focus on single object)
7. dhyana (meditation)
8. samadhi (union with brahman)
, How might Hindu patients frame illness and recovery? - Answers Blame on KARMA (body sick, soul is
not)
Illness toward following instruction
Rely on dharma principles to respond
What are the Four sights? - Answers What the Buddha saw:
OLD Man
SICK Man
CORPSE (death)
HOLY Man
what is an at-man? - Answers Devoid of any TRUE SELF (NO SELF)
Four Noble Truths - Answers 1. Dukkah (suffering in all things, discomfort, disappointment)
2. Dukkah caused by Trishna (desires or wants)
3. End Dukkah by eliminating Trishna (give up cravings)
4. Nirvana (live life according to eightfold, cessation of suffering)
Noble Eightfold Path? - Answers 1. Right UNDERSTANDING
2. Right INTENTIONS
3. Right SPEECH
4. Right BEHAVIOR
5. Right LIVELIHOOD
6. Right EFFORTS
7. Right MEDITATION
8. Right CONTEMPLATION
How are Buddha's teachings characterized? - Answers A thoroughgoing pragmatist (PRACTICAL
THINKING)
Community defined in Buddhism? - Answers SANGHA
Important Buddhist texts? - Answers Sutra-Pitaka
