A. It is a body of teachings given out by the great personage known as the Buddha. 3. Q. _Is "Buddhism" the best name for this teaching?_ A. No; that is only a western term: the best name for it is Bauddha Dharma. 4. Q. _Would you call a person a Buddhist who had merely been born of Buddha parents?_ A. Certainly not. A Buddhist is one who not only professes belief in the Buddha as the noblest of Teachers, in the Doctrine preached by Him, and in the Brotherhood of Arhats, but practises His precepts in daily life. 5. Q. _What is a male lay Buddhist called?_ A. An Upāsaka. 6. Q. _What a female?_ A. An Upāsika. 7. Q. _When was this doctrine first preached?_ A. There is some disagreement as to the actual date, but according to the Sinhalese Scriptures it was in the year 2513 of the (present) Kali-Yuga. 8. Q. _Give the important dates in the last birth of the Founder?_ A. He was born under the constellation Visā on a Tuesday in May, in the year 2478 (K.Y.); he retired to the jungle in the year 2506; became Buddha in 2513; and, passing out of the round of rebirths, entered Paranirvāna in the year 2558, aged eighty years. Each of these events happened on a day of full moon, so all are conjointly celebrated in the great festival of the full-moon of the month Wesak (_Vaisākha_), corresponding to the month of May. 9. Q. _Was the Buddha God?_ A. No. Buddha Dharma teaches no "divine" incarnation. 10. Q. _Was he a man?_ A. Yes; but the wisest, noblest and most holy being, who had developed himself in the course of countless births far beyond all other beings, the previous BUDDHAS alone excepted. 11. Q. _Were there other Buddhas before him?_ A. Yes; as will be explained later on. 12. Q. _Was Buddha his name?_ A. No. It is the name of a condition or state of mind, of the mind after it has reached the culmination of development. 13. Q. _What is its meaning?_ A. Enlightened; or, he who has the all-perfect wisdom. The Pālī phrase is _Sabbannu_, the One of Boundless Knowledge. In Samskrt it is _Sarvajña_. 14. Q. _What was the Buddha's real name then?_ A. SIDDHĀRTHA was his royal name, and GAUTAMA, or GOTAMA, his family name. He was Prince of Kapilavāstu and belonged to the illustrious family of the Okkāka, of the Solar race. 15. Q. _Who were his father and mother?_ A. King Suddhodana and Queen Māyā, called Mahā Māyā. 16. Q. _What people did this King reign over?_ A. The Sākyas; an Aryan tribe of Kshattriyas. 17. Q. _Where was Kapilavāstu?_ A. In India, one hundred miles north-east of the City of Benares, and about forty miles from the Himalaya mountains. It is situated in the Nepāl Terai. The city is now in ruins. 18. Q. _On what river?_ A. The Rohīnī, now called the Kohana. 19. Q. _Tell me again when Prince Siddhārtha was born?_ A. Six hundred and twenty-three years before the Christian era. 20. Q. _Is the exact spot known?_