Buddhism: One Teacher, Many Traditions

After the Buddha left the palace as a young man, he found that ascetic practices alone could lead one to full awakening.

According to Ven. Chodron, what particular problem do Westerners tend to have when it comes to understanding saṃsāra and nirvāṇa?

What constitutes the fourfold assembly? Click all that apply.

When the Buddha turned the Dharma wheel, he set forth the practices of which three vehicles? Click all that apply.

Who had family members that brought Buddhism to Sri Lanka from India in the third century BCE?

Which great fifth century translator and commentator wrote the Visuddimagga?

The three “baskets” (piṭaka) of the Buddhist canon are the Vinaya, Sūtra, and ________________.

Centuries ago when the Mahāyāna tradition started, it was mainly a spiritual goal; monastics who were aspiring for arhatship and buddhahood would have lived in the same monasteries.

In Thailand in the 1700s, King Rāma I began to remove elements of Brahmanism and __________ practice from Buddhism as it was practiced in the country.

How and when did Buddhism first enter China?