Buddhist tradition identifies Siddhartha Gautama's birthplace with which site in the Himalayan foothills?

After encountering old age, sickness, death, and an ascetic, what did Siddhartha Gautama do next in the traditional life story?

Before his enlightenment, which approach did Siddhartha try for years but then reject before teaching the Middle Way?

Where does Buddhist tradition place the Buddha's enlightenment after he sat in meditation beneath a bodhi tree?

After his enlightenment, where did the Buddha first teach the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path?

Which place is traditionally associated with the Buddha's final passing into parinirvana?

A student starts a chart of the Four Noble Truths. What belongs in the first row?

In the fixed sequence of the Four Noble Truths, what problem does the second truth identify?

Which claim comes after the origin of suffering but before the path is named in the Four Noble Truths?

The final Noble Truth points to a practice rather than a diagnosis. What does it name?

A text says the Buddha rejected both luxury and painful self-denial. Which teaching names that balanced approach?

A class recites the Eightfold Path: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, ___. What comes next?

A Buddhist community of ordained monks and nuns is being discussed. Which term names that community?

A novice asks where monastic rules are found in the Tipitaka. Which division should she study?

Which division of the Tipitaka contains discourses attributed to the Buddha and some of his close disciples?

A relic mound stands at the center of a Buddhist monastic complex, with pilgrims walking around it. What is it called?

The Pali Canon is also called the Tipitaka. What does that name refer to?

Which Mauryan ruler promoted Buddhism after the bloodshed of the Kalinga campaign?

Tradition says Ashoka's son Mahinda led a major Buddhist mission from India. Where did that mission go?

Buddhism reached China partly along routes through Afghanistan and Central Asia from Gandhara. Which trade network does this describe?

Buddhism thrived in Gandhara and the Swat Valley, helped by trade through mountain passes. In what modern region were these centers?

What feature of Central Asian oasis cities helped Buddhism move with merchants and monks?

Which branch became common in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia and preserves the Pali Canon?

Which broad branch became common across East Asia and emphasizes the bodhisattva ideal?

Which school is especially associated with Tibet, Nepal, and Mongolia and uses specific rituals as part of its path?