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#1. Mahayan sect of Buddhism emerged during the reign of
#2. Where is Lumbini, the birth place of Gautama Buddha located?
#3. The Buddha delivered his first sermon, known as 'Turning of the wheel of law' at
#4. Which state in India has the largest number of Buddhists?
According to the 2011 census, the largest concentration of Buddhism is in Maharashtra (6,530,000), where 77% of the total Buddhists in India reside.
#5. What does "Buddha" mean?
#6. Who among the following was contemporary of Gautam Buddha?
#7. In May 2014, Archeological Survey of India team visited which country to examine the authenticity of Buddha's begging bowl (bhikshapatra) kept in a museum?
#8. The largest Buddhist temple in the world is located in
#9. In which of the following countries were Buddha's idols disfigured and removed in 2001?
The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the Bamiyan valley of central Afghanistan.
In 1999 Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar issued a decree protecting the statues, but the statues were blown up in March 2001 when Swedish monument experts proposed to perform restorative work on them during a humanitarian crisis.
#10. The monk who influenced Emperor Ashoka to embrace Buddhism was
Upagupta (c. 3rd Century BC) was a Buddhist monk. According to some stories in the Sanskrit text “Ashokavadana”, he was the spiritual teacher of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka.
