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In Buddhist tradition, where was Gautama born?Read the answer and worked solution →Who installed a pillar at Lumbini in the mid-3rd century BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha was born into which tribe of rice-farmers?Read the answer and worked solution →Who were the wife and the son of Siddhartha Gautama?Read the answer and worked solution →On what kind of day is the Buddha believed to have been born?Read the answer and worked solution →According to later biographies, who was the Buddha's mother?Read the answer and worked solution →The Buddha's Middle Way lies between which two extremes?Read the answer and worked solution →Under which tree is the Buddha's awakening said to have occurred?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the title Buddha mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Where did the Buddha meet his five former companions near Varanasi?Read the answer and worked solution →Which king of Magadha gifted a bamboo grove park to the sangha?Read the answer and worked solution →Which merchant is said to have gifted Jeta's grove to the sangha?Read the answer and worked solution →When did the Buddha's sangha stop wandering and stay in monasteries?Read the answer and worked solution →In which capital city did the Buddha spend most of his later years?Read the answer and worked solution →Which cousin of the Buddha tried to split the sangha and lead it?Read the answer and worked solution →Who usurped the throne of Magadha by overthrowing his father Bimbisara?Read the answer and worked solution →Where, by Buddhist tradition, did the Buddha attain parinirvana?Read the answer and worked solution →Which pair of ideas summarises the Buddha's core teachings?Read the answer and worked solution →At which river did Gautama cut off his hair on leaving home?Read the answer and worked solution →What are the Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death celebrated as in Theravada countries?Read the answer and worked solution →How often did the sangha recite the Pratimoksa rules?Read the answer and worked solution →How many tirthankaras guide Jainism in the current cosmic cycle?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the first tirthankara of the current cycle in Jain tradition?Read the answer and worked solution →Which tirthankara do historians date to the eighth or seventh century BCE?Read the answer and worked solution →What does the root ji behind the word Jainism mean?Read the answer and worked solution →Which older name for Jain ascetics meant bondless?Read the answer and worked solution →In the Jain three jewels, what does samyak charitra mean?Read the answer and worked solution →What are the five small vows of Jain laypersons called?Read the answer and worked solution →Which principle is the highest ethical duty in Jainism?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Jain doctrine holds that no single viewpoint is absolutely complete?Read the answer and worked solution →

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In Buddhist tradition, where was Gautama born?

  1. Bodh Gaya
  2. Sarnath
  3. Kushinagar
  4. Lumbini
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Correct answer: D. Lumbini

1. Buddhist tradition places Gautama's birth at Lumbini, in a garden beneath a sal tree. 2. Sarnath is where he gave his first teaching, Bodh Gaya is linked to awakening, and Kushinagar to his death. 3. He was raised in Kapilavastu, not born there. _Source: Wikipedia, Gautama Buddha, Birth and early life_

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Who installed a pillar at Lumbini in the mid-3rd century BCE?

  1. Samudragupta
  2. Harsha
  3. Kanishka
  4. Ashoka
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Correct answer: D. Ashoka

1. In the mid-3rd century BCE Emperor Ashoka determined that Lumbini was the Buddha's birthplace. 2. He installed a pillar there with an inscription naming the Buddha, sage of the Shakyas. 3. Harsha, Kanishka and Samudragupta belong to later periods. _Source: Wikipedia, Gautama Buddha, Birth and early life_

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The Buddha was born into which tribe of rice-farmers?

  1. Licchavi
  2. Malla
  3. Koliya
  4. Shakya
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Correct answer: D. Shakya

1. The earliest Buddhist sources say he was born to a Kshatriya family called Gautama. 2. This family belonged to the Shakyas, a tribe of rice-farmers near the India-Nepal border. 3. The Koliya kingdom was his mother's homeland, not his own clan. _Source: Wikipedia, Gautama Buddha, Birth and early life_

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