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 |
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| 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 |
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| Florrie the Mononymous | Southampton A | Durham | 54 | 10 |
| Charlie Weaver | Virginia Tech B | Liberty C | 55 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Michigan C | 66 | 10 |
| John Marvin | Chicago A | Indiana A | 66 | -5 |
| Vivian Malouf | Berkeley A | Berkeley C | 66 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Nicholas Cuevas | Florida B | Central Florida B | 81 | 10 |
| Ved Muthusamy | Northwestern B | Purdue B | 81 | 10 |
| David Zaslavsky | Brandeis A | Brown | 81 | 10 |
| Britton Webster | Alabama A | Georgia Tech C | 81 | 10 |
| Rayhana Amjad | Edinburgh A | Cambridge B | 81 | 10 |
| Dustin Vali | Western B | Queen's | 81 | -5 |
| Cooper Stringer | Northwestern C | Chicago C | 81 | 10 |
| Alina Moore | Tennessee B | Kentucky | 81 | 10 |
| Krishna Girish | Montpellier | LSE | 81 | 10 |
| Joel Dicker | Southampton B | City St. George's | 81 | 10 |
| Rishi Pendyala | Cornell C | Binghamton B | 81 | 10 |
| Ben Wismath | Toronto B | Toronto Metropolitan | 83 | 10 |
| Sam McNamee | Notre Dame A | Chicago E | 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 |
| 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 |
| Ted Warner | Bristol | Warwick A | 104 | 10 |
| Luke Sloan | McGill B | Western A | 104 | -5 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Chicago B | 105 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton College | Minnesota A | 107 | 10 |
| Stefan Vlad | Ottawa | McGill A | 107 | 10 |
| Ethen Sun | Toronto D | McMaster B | 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 |
| Nikola Wu | UCLA B | UCSD B | 109 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Simon Fraser | 109 | 10 |
| Saju Ramraj | Toronto F | Guelph | 109 | 10 |
| James Watson | Wake Forest | North Carolina B | 109 | 10 |
| Max Kurzman | North Carolina C | William and Mary | 109 | 10 |
| Tommy Donelon | Missouri B | Missouri A | 109 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | Washington A | Washington B | 109 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Georgia Tech D | 109 | 10 |
| Kaiwen Xiao | UCLA A | UC Santa Barbara | 109 | 10 |
| Mark Cheng | UCSD C | UCSD A | 109 | 10 |
| Matthew Stall | CWRU B | Michigan B | 109 | 10 |
| Ayaan Jajodia | Dartmouth A | Brandeis B | 109 | 10 |
| Max Neal | Harvard B | Harvard A | 109 | -5 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | Texas A&M A | 109 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | Murray State A | 109 | 10 |
| Dennis Reppen | Imperial A | Manchester | 109 | 10 |
| Meredith Wiper | CWRU A | Ohio State C | 109 | 10 |
| Jesse Mindel | NC State A | VCU | 109 | 10 |
| Jared Schwartz | RIT | Rochester | 109 | 10 |
| Beckett Pursey | Purdue A | Illinois A | 112 | 10 |
| Arhith Dharanendra | Georgia Tech B | Louisville B | 112 | 10 |
| Fionn O'Connor | South Carolina B | Liberty B | 112 | 10 |
| Jason Thieu | Michigan State | Ohio State B | 113 | 10 |
| Dash Rumble | Bowdoin A | Bowdoin B | 116 | 10 |
| Sarah Yates | Vanderbilt B | Mississipi State | 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 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Chicago A | 131 | 10 |
| Joy An | Harvard A | Harvard 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 |