An 11th-century text by Atiśa titled for a “lamp” and this concept divides people into “lesser,” “middling,” and “superior” classifications based on the degree to which they reject mundane pleasures. In Zen, a herdsman’s search for, and retrieval of, an ox over the course of ten pictures allegorizes the search for this concept. The Samye monastery hosted a two-year-long debate questioning if this concept came about spontaneously or if it required activity. Theravada Buddhists believe in four stages to achieving this concept, which begins with the “stream-enterer” and ends with the “arahant.” Right samadhi, right conduct, and right resolve are among the noble eightfold paths needed to achieve this state. For 10 points, what practice of escaping the suffering cycle of rebirth was achieved under the bodhi tree by the Buddha? ■END■
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| California (South) | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 101.75 |
| Canada | Main Site | Y | 11 | 100% | 0% | 18% | 105.09 |
| Florida | Main Site | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 76.33 |
| Great Lakes | Main Site | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 105.60 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main Site | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 108.22 |
| Midwest | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 94.50 |
| Northeast | Main Site | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 102.00 |
| Overflow | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 102.25 |
| South Central | Main Site | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 109.00 |
| Southeast | Main Site | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 97.88 |
| UK | Main Site | Y | 12 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 89.42 |
| Upstate NY | Main Site | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 91.50 |
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| Florrie the Mononymous | Southampton A | Durham | 54 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 55 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 66 | 10 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan C | 66 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Indiana A | 66 | -5 |
| Alex Wyrick | Tennessee A | Bruin | 69 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley B | 69 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida C | Florida A | 70 | 10 |
| Alan Hughes | UCL | Imperial B | 71 | 10 |
| Matthew Wang | UBC A | Western C | 73 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Chicago D | 73 | 10 |
| Alexander Nicholas | Central Florida A | Central Florida C | 78 | 10 |
| James O'Reilly | Arizona State | UC Irvine | 80 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Yale | 80 | 10 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | Queen's | 81 | -5 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 81 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Kentucky | 81 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge B | 81 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 81 | 10 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Central Florida B | 81 | 10 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Chicago C | 81 | 10 |
| Joel Dicker | Southampton B | City St. George's | 81 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 81 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 81 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Brown | 81 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 83 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | Virginia | 83 | 10 |
| David Ropp | Duke | Virginia Tech A | 83 | 10 |
| Mitch McCullar | Penn State | Binghamton A | 83 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago E | 83 | 10 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech A | Iowa State | 84 | 10 |
| Julian Sung | Oxford C | Imperial C | 86 | 10 |
| Danny Fisher | Warwick B | Cambridge C | 88 | 10 |
| Faith Magiera | Northwestern D | Indiana C | 90 | 10 |
| Sriram Susarla | UBC B | Waterloo A | 92 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell B | Cornell A | 93 | 10 |
| Jackson Price | Dartmouth B | MIT | 95 | 10 |
| Yihong Chen | Toronto C | Brock | 96 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | Edinburgh B | 102 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | Western A | 104 | -5 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Warwick A | 104 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago B | 105 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McGill A | 107 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster B | 107 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton College | Minnesota A | 107 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Sewanee | 107 | 10 |
| John McQueen | South Carolina A | NC State B | 107 | 10 |
| Mary Kate Vance | Louisville A | Alabama B | 108 | 10 |
| Vijay Hans | Berkeley D | Stanford B | 108 | 10 |
| Tiffany Zhou | Ohio State A | Pittsburgh | 108 | -5 |
| Elliot Cosnett | Oxford A | Cambridge A | 108 | 10 |
| Zoë McGuire | Oxford B | Cardiff | 108 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 109 | 10 |
| Mark Cheng | UCSD C | UCSD A | 109 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | Missouri A | 109 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Washington B | 109 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 109 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Murray State A | 109 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech D | 109 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | Manchester | 109 | 10 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UCSD B | 109 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 109 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto F | Guelph | 109 | 10 |
| Matthew Stall | CWRU B | Michigan B | 109 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 109 | 10 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | VCU | 109 | 10 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | North Carolina B | 109 | 10 |
| Max Kurzman | North Carolina C | William and Mary | 109 | 10 |
| Jared Schwartz | RIT | Rochester | 109 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 109 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Harvard A | 109 | -5 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech B | Louisville B | 112 | 10 |
| Fionn O'Connor | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 112 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Illinois A | 112 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 113 | 10 |
| Sarah Yates | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 116 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 116 | 10 |
| Amir Dolansky | Toronto E | Toronto G | 118 | 10 |
| Noah Lee | Western A | McGill B | 131 | 10 |
| Andrew McCowan | Queen's | Western B | 131 | 10 |
| Zac Stapler | Pittsburgh | Ohio State A | 131 | 10 |
| Jack Pilkinton | James Madison B | North Carolina A | 131 | 10 |
| Katie Young | Liberty C | Virginia Tech B | 131 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Chicago A | 131 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | Harvard B | 131 | 10 |