Buddhism

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.

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 ....

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...:)

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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Si Gautama Buddha (Sanskrit:गौतम बुद्ध) ay isang prinsipeng ipinanganak sa Lumbini, mula sa angkan ng mga Shakya, sa isang lugar na matatagpuan sa makabagong Nepal malapit sa hangganan ng hilagang Indya. Nanirahan siya ng halos buong buhay niya sa Hilagang Indya at aktibong nagtuturo mula noong mga 563 BCE hanggang sa tinatayaang 483 BCE.

Ipinanganak bilang Siddhartha Gautama, ipinahayag niyang siya ay naging isang Buddha (Sanskrit: "Ang Naliwanagan" o "Ang Gising") pagkatapos magmuni-muni sa paghahanap para isang espirituwal na kahulugan. Pangkalahatang tinuturing siya ng mga Budista bilang ang Kataas-taasang Buddha ng ating panahon. Kilala din siya bilang Shakyamuni o Śakyamuni ("pantas ng mga Shakya") at bilang ang Tathagata ("Siyang gayun ngang humayo").

Isang mahalagang tao si Gautama sa Budismo at naging buod ang mga tala ng kanyang mga buhay, mga rasyonalidad, at monastikong mga panununtunan pagkatapos ng kanyang kamatayan at nasaulo ng mga sangha(komunidad). Naisalin ang mga katuruan sa pamamagitan ng tradisyong oral, naitala ito sa Tripitaka matapos ang apat na daang taon. Tinuturing ng mga Hindu si Gautama bilang isang avatar ni Panginoong Vishnu. Siya ang founder ng buddismo.

Ang panaginip ni Māyādevī

Ayon sa tradisyon, si Buddha ay ipinanganak sa tinatayang 200 taon bago ang pamumuno ni haring Aśoka ng Maurya.

Isang gabi ay nanaginip ang kanyang inang reyna na si Māyādevī , ng isang elepanteng may anim na pangil at may ulo na gaya ng sa rubi na nagmula sa kaitastaasang kalangitan at pumasok sa kanyang kanang tagiliran. Ipinaalam naman ng walong bhramin sa kanyang ama na ang bata ay magiging banal at makakamit ang perpektong karunungan. Nang lumipas ang panahon, nagpunta ang kanyang ina sa hardin ng Lumbini kasama ang kanyang mga alalay at nagtungo sa ilalaim ng puno ng "Śālā", at ang puno naman ay yumukod na naging gabay at tanganan ng inang reyna. Tumingala ang reyna sa kalangitan at sa pagkakataong yaon ay lumabas si Siddharta sa kanyang tagiliran at pagdaka'y humakbang ng pitong beses, at sa bawat hakbang nito'y may umusbong na bulaklak ng lotus. Sa pagkakataong ito ay itinuro niya ang kanyang kanang daliri patungong langit at nagwikang Hindi na siya muling ipanganganak pa at ito ang kanyang magiging huling katauhan at huhugutin niya mula sa pinaka ugat ang kadahilanan ng kapanganakan at kamatayan.

Nang magkaroon ng kaliwanagan si Siddharta ng Buddhism sa pagkalat ng kanyang mga doktrina ay naglakbay siya at nagkaroon ng asawa't anak. Namuhay sila ng matiwasay at namuno siya sa kanilang kaharian sa Nepal.Siya ang pumalit sa yapak ng kanyang ama na si Raja.

Naunang pumunta si Siddhartha sa Rajagaha at sinimulan ang buhay mahirap sa pamamagitan ng paglilimos sa daan. Ngunit siya'y nakikilala ng mga ni Haring Bimbisara at inalok siya ng hari ng trono nito matapos marinig ang layunin ng paglalakbay ni Siddhartha. Ngunit tinanggihan niya ito at nagsabing pupuntahan muna ang Magadha.

Nilisan niya ang Rajagaha at nagsanay sa ilalim ng dalawang ermitanyo. Matapos makasanayan ang turo ni Alara Kalama, inalok ng pangalawa ang una na palitan na ito, ngunit lumisan agad si Siddhartha. Naging mag-aaral din siya ni Udaka Ramaputta, ngunit kahit marating na niya ang matataas na antas ng meditasyon at aluking palitan na si Udaka, nakita pa rin niya ang sarili niyang Hindi kontento sa daang kangyang tinatahak kaya't nagpatuloy na lamang siya.