Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the Assertion (A): Gautama Buddha believed in rebirth. Reason (R) : He did not accept the existence of the permanent soul.
Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
Both A and R are true, but R does not explain A. Buddhism accepts rebirth through conditioned causal continuity, associated with karma, craving and ignorance, without an enduring soul passing between lives. The denial of a permanent self qualifies this account; by itself it is not a reason that rebirth occurs.
Important Questions from Emergence of heterodox sects - Teaching
The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogues the fifteenth-century folio King Siddharta Being Anointed from a Kalpasutra manuscript as belonging to which Indian region?
Match the Jain terms with their appropriate meanings.
List I
(a) Bhattaraka
(b) Kshullaka
(c) Shravaka
(d) Yati
List II
(i) A general term for an ascetic
(ii) A lay Jain follower
(iii) A traditional head of a Digambara religious establishment
(iv) A junior stage of Digambara ascetic initiation
Choose the correct matching.'Kathina ceremony' of Buddhist samgha was related to
In Shravasti, Makkali Gosala usually stayed at the workshop of the lady Halahala who belonged to community of
The main dispute between the Digambara and the Shvetambara sects was due to the emphasis on the following:
