RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
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Question
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What is a koan?
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Type of poem that makes the reader feel bad about himself
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Type of story or scenario that is designed to make its reader contemplate their existence; has no right or wrong answer
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The type of tree that Buddha sat under when he achieved enlightenment
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -: a paradox to be meditated upon that is used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and to force them into gaining sudden intuitive enlightenment.
Detailed explanation-2: -Koan literature refers to records of encounter dialogues between masters and their rivals and/or disciples, with voluminous prose and poetic commentaries. The koan records were first preserved in dozens of collections created from the eleventh through the fourteenth centuries in China and Japan.
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