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Buddhism
Buddhism is a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development. Buddhists strive for a deep insight into the true nature of life such as Ahinsa, Karma, and Dharma.
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The difference between Christianity and Buddhism and Islam?
Christianity teaches that Jesus is the son of God. Islam teaches that Jesus was a messenger of God.
Christianity teaches the concept of Original Sin. Islam does not.
Islam teaches that Muhammad was a messenger of God. Christianity does not.
== == Yes, Richard Gere is a Buddhist along with fellow celebrities: Orlando Bloom, Steven Seagal, Herbie Hancock, Keanu Reeves, Kate Bosworth, Tina Turner, Uma Thurman, Jackie Chan, Naomi Watts, Courtney Love, Jet Li, Ron Glass, Leonard Cohen, Patrick Duffy, Adam Yauch (The Beastie Boys singer), k.d. lang and Jennifer Lopez.
Other celebrities that have practiced certain aspects of the Buddhist faith intermittently, but that are not confirmed Buddhists because they also practice other faiths, include: Amy Winehouse, Goldie Hawn (Jewish) and Tiger Woods, who has stated that he considers himself more of an overall role model for children than a member of any one specific faith.
What percentage of Indians are Buddhist?
Do you mean people who live in India and follow Hindu, because that's who "Indians" are.
The proper term is Native Americans, and calling them Indians is very insulting.
When Nirvana's singer Kurt Cobain died, pretty much the band did too. They didn't make any more songs after his death.
It is fairly simple.
If you have investigated the Buddha's teachings and have come to believe that this is the path (and it is a path) that you want to follow in your life then you simply need to take the refuge ceremony, either by yourself, or in a Buddhist Temple or with a Buddhist Monk.
The refuge ceremony is your statement that you intend to use the Buddha (the first know enlightened one), his teachings (the Dharma) and his followers (The Sangha, which is the Monks, Nuns, lay persons that follow The Buddha and all enlightened beings (other Buddhas)) as your guides in life.
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How many people worship Buddhism in India?
To date, there are over 300 million followers of Buddhismin the world, many of which live in Asian countries but a growing number of Buddhists can also be found in Europe, Australia, and North America.
What time period did Siddhartha Guatama Buddha live in?
Siddhartha Gautama was born in 563B.C.E. His birthplace was the town of Kapilavastu in what is know known as Nepal.
What were the primary similarities and differences between Hinduism and Buddhism?
Similar: Both originate from India, Lord Buddha being born in Gaya, Bihar; Lord Rama in Ayodhya, and Lord Krishna in Gokula, U.P
Both use chanting of prayers and mantras to purify, focus and instruct the mind.
Both meditate on and worship Deities (Sri Murti), which tallies with the Beatitude "Blessed are the Pure in Heart, for they shall see God". Some (many) in the Mosaic faiths (Moses 10 commandments) consider this idolatry, but we assert that, it is not those who meditate on the picture or statue of God or the gods (angels, Lord Jesus, saints, Buddhas, Ganesh, Hanuman, etc.) who are at fault, but rather those who criticize them, and certainly those who destroy temples of any faith, are condemned by the Lord.
Differences: Buddhism seeks to attain Nirvana which is cessation of suffering as does Hinduism, but many sects (actually on both sides) consider nothingness to be the goal, which is rejected by personalists of the Bhakti school who want to be with God, rather than merge into him or simply cease to exist.
Buddhist texts are derived from Pali, the language of north India 2500 years ago (and thence into local languages, especially Tibetan, Burmese, Thai, Simhala, Chinese & Japanese).
Hindu texts mainly originated in Sanskrit, a more ancient language, but also in medieval Hindi like Tulsidas' Ramayana, or classical Bengali like Sri Chaitanya-Caritamrta (1486-1534AD).
Buddhists all shave their head clean, while Hindus adopt many styles showing their ashram, such as dreadlocks, or shaved but keeping a tuft or larger portion of hair at the back, called a sikha.
Hindus also wear markings on their foreheads, and bodies if they are sadhus, which display which tradition they belong to and whom they worship. Buddhists are more plain & simple in this regard.
Some Buddhist traditions use the chanting mala, rosary (eg. Tibetan) while others don't (eg. Zen, the impersonalist school). But again, some Hindus chant while others do silent meditation. Hinduism is an collection of very many religions and traditions from mountain to ocean, desert to plains, forest to jungle. It cannot be defined as a single religion. Buddhism also has its Mahayana and Hinayana traditions, Theravada, Chinese & Japanese schools (Ch'an - Dhyan - Zen - all mean meditation).
One big difference is that Buddhism professes that there is no God, but then proceeds to worship Buddha and the gods in that indirect way. Both traditions tend to be vegetarian but there are relaxations due to modernism or to remote location such as Tibet.
To summarise, we believe Hinduism gave birth to Buddhism, in some ways as a protest movement against animal sacrifice, casteism, & the suffering of the masses while the priests and kings enjoyed. Buddha led a movement to reform this, to show compassion to others, human and otherwise. There are many variations of both traditions, many areas of overlap and some bones of contention - but at root both share meditation, worship, and loving kindness at the core of their philosophies.
What did Buddha do to change the world?
Gautama run away from home because he fear of life pain of different unfortunate human with suffering of their Karma and even at the end did not succeed to find final truth of life which is We are potential becoming GOD like.
He added that there is violence in eating meet but didn't clear that by controlling food at final stage will definitely make you God like. This step was fulfill by different sumkalin philosophy call Jainism.
by meditation daily one hour you can calm ur mind
AnswerClose our eyes think of a place that is quite,beautiful,imagine the sky full of friendly clouds you here birds singing,you don,t have any problems on your mind,the warm breeze is touching your skin....how does your mind feel now...hope your mind is calmed already.Also if you have a pet hold on to it and think of your boyfriend or your best friend.And you can go to a quiet room alone at daytime and breath in through your nose and out with your mouth and close your eyes. Im a 10 year old and my mom drinks and goes crazy i get soo like umm, kinda scared and when I'm alone since I'm a christian I pray.
First View:
The Buddha's relation with Hinduism is so close that it's easy to confuse Buddhism with Hinduism. The two religions have close connections, and yet they are distinct. This was because of Buddha's reform movements and his refining of Hindu beliefs. It would not be wrong to state, then, that Buddha founded a noble religion by distilling Hinduism, and offering a commonsense approach to self-betterment to which the people can relate easily.
The Hindu caste system defined a person's position in society as determined by their birth. Buddha condemned the Hindu caste system and said that it is karma or the good and bad actions of a person and not birth that should determine a person's caste. He introduced the idea of placing morality and equality on a higher place than genealogy of a person.
Hindus believe that the purpose of the avatar of Buddha, like all divine avatars, was to re-establish dharma where "adharma" (irreligiousness) had become prevalent. Buddha is regarded by some sects of Hindus as an incarnation of Vishnu, or even as a Hindu. This is because Buddha's theistic beliefs are not contrary to Hinduism, but only a step ahead. This is also because the nature of Hinduism itself is such that all beliefs are recognized as being facets of the Ultimate Truth. It is interesting to note that the word "Nirvana" - used by Lord Buddha to describe the state of permanent bliss - is indeed a Vedic term.
Buddha was born into the Shakya dynasty of a Kshtriya caste family. It's a different thing that Buddha, after he became enlightened, never sought to classify himself into any caste or religion. He was only a born Kshtriya (classified as Hindus) and not a practicing one.
Also 80% of his teachings were taken from Upanishadas and Yogas. He taught Lotus Pose, Meditation, Concept of Soul as reality all these concepts were already there in Sanatana Dharma which is now known as Hinduism.
Counter View:
The Buddha was not "born a Hindu" because Hinduism in its present form had not emerged at the time of his birth. Before the time of the Buddha the religion of India was Vedic Brahmanism, but alongside the Vedic tradition there was an ascetic (Śramana) stream of religious thought and practice having its origin in prehistoric times; it is to this Śramanic culture that Buddhism has its closest affinity. Hinduism grew out of a fusion of Vedic Brahmanism with Buddhism and other Śramanic religious trends. Although Buddhism acknowledges an affinity with the Śramanic cults, it is nevertheless a unique product of the Buddha's direct insight.
Buddha was from Shakya dynasty, named after muni (sage) Shakya but he left his family and established his Dhamma (Dhamma is different from Dharma or religion). Although Shakyas are considered themselves as Aryan Kshtriya (a Hindu) but their relationships with Kolis (Non-Hindus) might be considered that they were Non-Hindus.
The great unification of Buddhism and Hinduism is still prevalent in Nepal, the birthplace of Buddha. Ironically, Nepal is the world's only Hindu nation, where people don't consider the two religions distinct from each other.What is bodhidharma's birth place?
There are no contemporary Indian records about his life. The only records that do mention him come from China. They are very contradictory in nature as they say he was from Persia or from different areas of India.
What is the Buddhism symbol called?
Three... Three people.
Cop: Ma'am?
Three people dead...
Cop: Ma'am are you okay?!
I...Killed...Them........................................................................................................................
Why do Buddhist temples have the Nazi sign?
The swastika was taken from the Buddhist temple symbol for the sun ( which is on the Buddhist temple). The symbol for the sun means power in all things, which is why Hitler took it for himself, however turning the symbol on it's side to form a new symbol, the swastika.
Addendum
Actually the swastika is used in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism and predates the Nazi's by thousands of years. Wikipedia has a detailed explanation.
What school of thought was taught by Laozi?
Laozi was a teacher of Daoism. He also taght that the main goal was to achive oness with daor
How did Buddhism affect Chinese government?
almost most of chinese don't believe in the buddha,they just want to bribe buddha to bless them ,bring them lucky
only the tibetans is true Believers.really base on the religion
so Buddhism affect Chinese government nothing
Why was it important for the Borobudur to be restored?
It was built as a shrine to the lord Buddha and a place for Buddhist to prey
What is the importance of hardwork?
That hard work is a key to success is a well-known adage. Parents, teachers as well as others guide a child to work hard so that he can achieve good scores. Though a little bit of luck plays a positive role but I believe that hard work is the key to success. In fact if only luck is to be considered, no one would work but just wait till their lick shines up.
But this is not the case. Today we see that technology has improved to such an extent that a person can have a lunch in Paris and a dinner in New York on the same day. There lies great contribution from people like the Wright brothers and Henry Ford to invent these means of transportation, which were the result of their hard-work and great efforts. If these people had waited for the D-day probably we could still have been using fire and wood to cook instead of using electrical ovens, and the globalization would not have taken effect.
A person can excel in his career due to hard work. If he sits at home, no one would offer him a job unless he initiates the job searching process. Also if you are working in a company you will be promoted only because of working hard: luck does not lie in the picture.
A student stands out firstly only if he studies hard. Many students after the graduation say that probably they were not luck enough to get good marks, or the evaluators must have marked their papers strictly. But again these are merely reasons that can't be given preference.
Today a young individual has the potential to do something and crave in reaching a particular acme. Whether your luck prevails or not condition being hard work and efforts, which will pick you up whenever you are.
The term Buddha (the Enlightened One) is generally taken to mean Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian prince who lived 2500 years ago. A such he was not "invented". Siddhartha's thoughts on the nature of human suffering and its possible cure have come to be known as Buddhism.
Who are important people to Buddhists?
I'll give a brief answer in two aspects of this question. 1) WHAT are important people to Buddhists. 2) WHO are important people to Buddhists. I suppose you had 2) in mind when writing the question but, what the hey?!
1) An important person to a Buddhist, in my view, is a person who does good things. Good for oneself as well as for others. Some Buddhists certainly wouldn't agree with this because of my use of the word "good". There are "good" reasons for this, but, I'm not going to get into it. Never mind.
2) Important people to Buddhists are first and foremost, Shakyamuni Buddha, or the guy we call the Buddha. There were Buddhas before him, and to some Buddhists, those Buddhas are important. Some important people since the Buddha are Buddhagosa, Sariputra, Bodhidharma, and The Sixth Patriarch (the latter two are important in Zen). The Dalai Lama is one of the few people alive today who are considered important in Buddhism. One could go on and on but ....
AnswerThe most important person to Buddhist are themselves. As a Zen Master in San Francisco said; " You are a perfect being yourself, but you can still improve."Answer: The most important people to Buddhism is Gods, human, animal, and everything that are alive in this world because his like gods he care about use he want people all around the world to do good stuff not bad stuff and not stuff that are stupid...:)
What is the percent population of Buddhism in Vietnam?
Some folks say between 60 and 80%. It might be best to say during which decade, as there may have been more Catholics there in the 1950's and 1960's than there is today.
How many followers does Buddhism have today?
It is unkown how many Taoists in China, but there are about 4.5 million Taiwan (which makes it the second largest religion), and a few tens of thousands in the Americas. It is also the fourth largest religion in Singapore (8.5% of the population), if one excludes the non-religious.
Some estimates place the number of Taoists in China at 20 million, others at 80 million.
Followers of Buddhism and Chinese traditional religion in general where shown to be at around 200 million by a recent survey. Other sources indicate that the number of Buddhists in China is 100 million, so it's likely that most of the 100 million is Taoist.
Taoism also has a large cultural influence on China and other countries that it used to have a presence in.
Taoism has a small presence in the Chinese diaspora (more common in the diaspora are Buddhism, non-religion and Christianity).
There are also some Taoists in South Korea. The number of Chinese traditional religious is possibly an undercount, since many Chinese feel uncomfortable discussing their religion with people in public, perhaps even up to 20%.
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