Peter Manseau and Jeff Shalet co-founded an online magazine titled for this action in 2000 that aims to share personal stories about individuals finding faith and losing it. For 10 points each:
[10h] What action did Devadatta variously attempt using a rock, Prince Ajatasattu’s mercenaries, and an intoxicated elephant? This action is accidentally accomplished by Cunda, a well-meaning smith.
ANSWER: killing the Buddha [accept synonyms such as assassinating the Buddha; accept answers about causing the Buddha’s death; accept answers about giving the Buddha spoiled pork or meat; accept answers about giving the Buddha dysentery; prompt on killing or assassinating or murder by itself]
[10e] One must kill the Buddha on the road if one meets him, according to one of these Buddhist texts written by Linji. The Gateless Gate is a collection of these paradoxical sayings that are meditated on in Zen Buddhism.
ANSWER: kōans [or gōng’àn]
[10m] Wounding the Tathagata Buddha is among the five proscribed offenses that condemn one to hell, alongside the murders of one’s father, mother, and these beings. The Eighteen Luóhàns are alternatively known as these beings, the first of whom was Kaundinya.
ANSWER: arhats [or arahants; prompt on disciples of the Buddha] (The five offenses are known as the anantarika-karma.)
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