Chapter 6: New Religions and Ideas Quiz

Lord Buddha was born in a Kshatriya family belonging to a small gana known as the Sakya gana. He was named __________ at birth.

He left home at an early age to begin his quest for knowledge and the true meaning of __________.

He is said to have meditated for many days under a __________ tree at Bodh Gaya.

Sarnath, near Varanasi, was the first place where Buddha taught his __________.

Stupas are dome-shaped buildings that contain the remains of Buddha or his __________.

Buddha spent the rest of his life wandering from place to place and spreading his message of peace and __________ in everything.

The Upanishads are believed to have been composed around 500 BC or a little earlier than that and form a part of later Vedic literature. It was around this time that people had begun to question the importance of ______ and explore ideas such as life after death and the true meaning of life.

Some thinkers began to believe that the human soul is indestructible and that it continues to exist even after a person's death. They called this individual soul, there was a permanent universal individual soul ______.

They believed the atman and the brahman were ultimately same, not different, entities. People also began to believe in the ______, i.e., after people die, their souls move to another body, and the kind of life into which they are born depends on their actions (karmas) in the previous life.

Many of these ideas have been recorded in the Upanishads in the form of conversations between teachers and students, mostly Brahmanas, rajas, and sometimes ______.

However, besides a few exceptions, people of lower status mostly did not take part in these discussions. Buddha was born born in 6.2 ______.

About 2500 years ago, another thinker began questioning rituals and asking people to respect the lives of all beings, including animals. He was called Buddha, or the 'wise one'. The religion founded by him is known as ______.