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1 What does the following picture show?  The Buddhist "Carpenter's Cave" at Ellora in Maharashtra, India.   Traditional Tibetan Buddhist Thangka depicting the "Wheel of Life" with its six realms   The Buddhist "Carpenter's Cave" at Ellora in Maharashtra, India.   The Great Statue of Buddha Amitabha in Kamakura, Japan

2 What does the following picture show?  Buddhist monks praying in Thailand   Bodhnath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal   Polish Buddhists   Statue of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, with Sanskrit in the Siddham script. Singapore.

3 What does the following picture show?  The Great Statue of Buddha Amitabha in Kamakura, Japan   Statue of Avalokiteśvara Bodhisattva, with Sanskrit in the Siddham script. Singapore.   Buddhism is most prevalent in the Far East.   Two Buddhist monks in traditional clothing.

4 What does the following picture show?  The Buddhist "Carpenter's Cave" at Ellora in Maharashtra, India.   Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, India, where Gautama Buddha attained Nirvana under the Bodhi Tree (left)   Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads Mahayana sutras from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan Kanjur.   Typical interior of a temple in Korea

5 What does the following picture show?  Buddhist tradition records in the Milinda Panha that the 2nd century BCE Indo-Greek king Menander converted to the Buddhist faith and became an arhat.   The Dharmachakra represents the Noble Eightfold Path.   Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, India, where Gautama Buddha attained Nirvana under the Bodhi Tree (left)   Footprint of the Buddha with Dharmachakra and triratna, 1st century CE, Gandhāra.

6 What does the following picture show?  A statue of Gautama Buddha in Bodhgaya, India. Bodhgaya is traditionally considered the place of his awakening[1]   Typical interior of a temple in Korea   The Buddhist "Carpenter's Cave" at Ellora in Maharashtra, India.   Japanese Buddhist monk

7 What does the following picture show?  Buddhist monks praying in Thailand   Gautama Buddha, 1st century CE, Gandhara   Ascetic Gautama with his five companions, who later comprised the first Sangha. Wall painting in a Laotian temple   A statue of Gautama Buddha in Bodhgaya, India. Bodhgaya is traditionally considered the place of his awakening[1]

8 What does the following picture show?  Bodhnath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal   Debating monks at Sera Monastery, Tibet   Two Buddhist monks in traditional clothing.   The Dharmachakra represents the Noble Eightfold Path.

9 What does the following picture show?  Chinese seated Buddha, Tang Dynasty, Chinese Buddhism is of the Mahayana tradition, with popular schools today being Pure Land and Zen.   Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads Mahayana sutras from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan Kanjur.   Typical interior of a temple in Korea   Buddhist monk Geshe Konchog Wangdu reads Mahayana sutras from an old woodblock copy of the Tibetan Kanjur.

10 What does the following picture show?  Mahabodhi temple in Bodhgaya, India, where Gautama Buddha attained Nirvana under the Bodhi Tree (left)   Typical interior of a temple in Korea   Bodhnath Stupa, Kathmandu, Nepal   Two Buddhist monks in traditional clothing.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Joint Communique in 1963 to end South Vietnam's Buddhist crisis broke down in one day, after a scuffle between Buddhists and police?
  • the Thich Ca Phat Dai Buddhist temple in Vung Tau has a prominent lookout over the city?
  • the Buddhist monk Tetsugen spent twenty years in an attempt to publish the Chinese scriptures of Buddhism in Japan, because he kept giving away the money he collected for the purpose?
  • the Buddhist minister of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission was arrested during World War II and sent to a Japanese American internment camp?
  • in 1578 the 3rd Dalai Lama converted the Mongol leader Altan Khan, who persuaded Mongols to convert, built Mongolia's first monastery, and within 50 years most Mongols were Buddhist?
  • the Tinh Xa Trung Tam Buddhist temple in Ho Chi Minh City is regarded as the spiritual birthplace of the khất sĩ tradition?
  • the Hungarian-born Jew Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was successively a Presbyterian missionary in Canada, a British Member of Parliament, an international double agent, a German right-wing politician, and a Buddhist abbot in China?
  • the prominent Hindu Ganesha cave temple at Lenyadri is located in the vicinity of about 30 Buddhist caves?
  • the shooting of followers of Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Tri Quang by the Catholic government of Ngo Dinh Diem led to months of protests which culminated in a coup in November 1963?
  • the main hall of Tay An Temple contains around 200 Buddhist statues?
  • the largely unexplored Buddhist archaeological site of Noapara-Ishanchandranagar in Bangladesh is conjectured to be the lost city of Karmanta Vasaka?
  • the capital city Chang'an during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) had 111 Buddhist monasteries and 41 Daoist abbeys within its walls?
  • for the jazz album The Meeting, Joseph Jarman returned to the Art Ensemble of Chicago after leaving in 1993 to open a Buddhist dojo in Brooklyn, New York?
  • an Indo-Corinthian capital is a Buddhist adaption of the Greek Corinthian capital, often incorporating images of the Buddha?
  • Gothabhaya of Sri Lanka banished 60 Buddhist monks from the Abhayagiri monastery for following Mahayana teachings?
  • Le Quang Tung, the Catholic head of South Vietnam's special forces had his CIA funding threatened because he concentrated on repressing Buddhists and raiding temples instead of fighting communists?
  • Japanese painter Tomioka Tessai (work pictured) was encouraged by his mentor, Buddhist nun and poet Otagaki Rengetsu, to synthesize Buddhist and Shinto elements in his works?
  • Chogyal established the first monastery (pictured) in Sikkim at Yuksom in 1701, which is part of a Buddhist pilgrimage circuit including Norbugang, Pemayangtse, Rabdentse, Sanga Choeling, Khecheopalri Lake, and Tashiding?
  • Buryat Mongolian Buddhist Agvan Dorzhiev was a tutor and debating partner of the teenage Thubten Gyatso, 13th Dalai Lama?
  • Lee Choon Seng, a Singaporean philanthropist built a Buddhist temple with the intention of liberating the spirits of those killed during the 1942 Battle of Pasir Panjang?
  • Patacara, who became a Buddhist while disconsolately wandering naked through the Indian city of Savatthi, rose to become the foremost bhikkhuni of Gautama Buddha in her mastery of the Vinaya?
  • Jampa Tsedroen, the monastic name of German Buddhist nun Carola Roloff, means "loving kindness" and "lamp of life" in Tibetan?
  • a Vihara is an Indian Buddhist cave monastery that takes its name from the Sanskrit word for "a secluded place in which to walk"?
  • Penitents Compete is a Turkish reality television series in which a Jewish rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a Greek Orthodox priest, and a Muslim imam try to convert atheists?
  • Suyab, the 7th-century capital of the Western Turkic Khaganate, had Buddhist temples, Nestorian monasteries, Zoroastrian ossuaries, and Turkic bal-bals?
  • Quoc An Temple in Huế was founded by a Zen monk from China, whose disciple lineage covers most of the Buddhists in southern Vietnam?
  • Buddhist monk Ekai Kawaguchi was the first Japanese citizen to travel to Nepal?
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