Confucianism Daoism Buddhism Potpourri
100
What is filial piety?
A deep and sincere respect and reverence for one's elder family members
100
What is the dao/tao?
It is limitless and unnameable.
100
What is karma?
The idea that every act has a good result or a bad result, and these results accumulate .
100
What is kami?
The Japanese word for a spirit or deity.
200
What is The Analects?
The work containing the core ideas of Confucius.
200
What is the uncarved block?
This serves as a Daoist symbol for the natural or original state of something, untouched by the artifice of humankind.
200
What is dharma?
Buddhist doctrine or law.
200
What is Shinto?
The Japanese religion known as "the way of the kami."
300
What is rule by moral suasion.
An ideal ruler should rule not via strict rules but rather via this "trickle down" method.
300
Who is Lao Tzu/Laozi?
The supposed founding father of Daoism.
300
What is samsara?
The endless cycle of rebirths.
300
What is Yin-Yang theory?
The notion, originally from China, that all things have their complementary opposites.
400
What is humanity/benevolence/ren?
A core Confucian virtue, it involves acting with inner moral integrity, compassion for others, and sensitivity to others.
400
What is the Dao de jing/Tao-te ching?
The most famous Daoist text.
400
What is nirvana?
The cessation of existence, the escape from the wheel of existence.
400
What is a bhavacakra?
A visual representation of the wheel of cyclic existence.
500
What is the dao?
The Chinese term for "the way," for Confucius it is an inherently moral way.
500
What is "the weak"?
The dao would rather not choose to label things, but if it had to choose to affiliate with the "strong" or the "weak," which would it affiliate with?
500
What is Mahayana Buddhism?
The more popular tradition of Buddhism in East Asia, it allowed for multiple Buddhas and multiple paths to enligthenment.
500
What is a bodhisattva?
One who attains enlightenment but decides to remain behind and help others attain enlightenment, too.






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