Question
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Bodhidharma, an ancient Buddhist ascetic, cut off his eyelids because he felt sleepy during meditations. Ten tea plants grew out of the eyelids. The leaves of these plants when put in hot water and drunk banished sleep.
1. Who was Bodhidharma?
2. Why did he cut off his eyelids?
3. Find a word in the passage that means opposite to ‘allowed’.
Solution
1. Bodhidharma was a Buddhist monk.
2. He cut off his eyelids because they made him feel sleepy while he was meditating.
3. Banished.
