RLGN 340 Quiz 3 Jainism

RLGN 340 Quiz 3: Jainism, Sikhism, and Chinese Religions

1. What is not one of the five main precepts (Mahavratas) of Jainism?
2. What is the color of the clothing worn by a Jain monk?
3. What is the primary food taboo for Jains?
4. What kind of lifestyle did the founder of Jainism preach?
5. What religion is thought to have first used the story of the blind men and the elephant as an illustration of an incomplete human grasp of truth?
6. How many great teachers are recognized by Jains?
7. What is the most distinctive behavior of the Digambaras?
8. What is the ideal death for a Jain?
9. What term is used for the great Jain teachers?
10. Who was the first of the Jain “ford-makers”?
11. According to Sikh teaching, what is the fundamental problem of humans?
12. The Sikh movement began in what period?
13. Which is the preferred Sikh funeral custom of dealing with the dead body?
14. What does the word khalsa mean?
15. Where does one find a brief list of the Sikhs’ ideals of behavior?
16. What forms the Ik Onkar symbol?
17. Whose writings form the Adi Granth?
18. What items are featured in the Sikh Khanda symbol?
19. What is the Ik Onkar symbol used to indicate?
20. What cultural environment does the Sikh movement most clearly express?
21. What is the Rehat Maryada?
22. Who are the Udasis?
23. What does the word Amritsar mean?
24. In what kind of environment did the Sikh movement exist in its Nrst hundred years?
25. What other important Sikh event occurred during the time of the building of the Golden Temple?
26. The main center of the Sikh movement is:
27. What government replaced the Muslim empires in India?
28. What name do baptized Sikh women assume?
29. What is a gurdwara?
30. In Sikhism, what activity is involved in a path?
31. The Flower Garland Sutras reflect which school of Chinese thought?
32. One of the most prominent features of ancient Chinese religions involved:
33. What ideal does ren/jen express?
34. What Chinese school of thought promoted the ideal of universal love?
35. The burning of paper clothes and money reflects an element of:
36. Before Buddhism came to China, the two major religious or philosophical traditions were:
37. The pattern of solid and broken lines seen in Chinese hexagrams reflects what ancient practice?
38. The Dharma Blossom Sutras reflect which school of Chinese thought?
39. The Chinese civil service for centuries followed the principles of what school of thought?
40. What is the Chinese term for nonaction or nonstriving?
41. What was the primary role that Taoism played in China?
42. What book interprets the hexagram patterns of solid and broken lines?
43. What relationship below is not one of the five primary relationships in Confucian thought?
44. In Chinese culture, what is the color of death and the appropriate color of funeral dress?
45. For what is the Buddha Budai (Pu-t’ai) primarily worshiped?
46. The five primary relationships in Confucian thought are:
47. What is another term for the Daoist canon?
48. Which Chinese dynasty curtailed the influence of the educated class?
49. How many arrangements of solid and broken lines form the hexagrams consulted by the Chinese for advice?
50. How is the word Tian/T’ien usually translated?