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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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What is the correct answer Buddhism is the largest religion in the world?
The correct answer is that no, it isn't.
What does the red dot on the buddha's head symbolize?
If you mean the dot on the forehead between the eyes it's the "Third Eye" also known as the "Inner Eye". This represents perception beyond normal sight, that is, a gate that leads within to inner realms and spaces of higher consciousness
What is the moral lesson in the story of Siddhartha gautama?
The moral lesson in the story of Siddhartha Gautama, who became the Buddha, centers on the importance of seeking inner peace and enlightenment through understanding and compassion. It emphasizes the need to confront suffering, recognize the impermanence of life, and find a middle path between indulgence and asceticism. Ultimately, it teaches that true fulfillment comes from self-awareness, mindfulness, and compassion for all living beings.
What are two major beliefs in Buddhism?
the answer is simply that they believed in karma, and that they believed in no god.. they only believe in the Buddha..
Answer:
The basic beliefs of Buddhism are set out in the Four Noble Truths:
- All life experiences suffering
- All suffering is caused by desire
- Suffering can be eliminated by eliminating desire
- This can be done by following the Eightfold Path
In "Musee des Beaux-Arts," who does Auden feel best understands human suffering?
The 'Old Masters" APEX
What Rituals and practices do the Buddhist use?
Tibetan and Indian buddhists (for example) chop up the deads body and feed it to the vultures as this helped the vultures in some way. (sorry youd have to research on how it helps the vultures, I actually got this info from another answers.com user. :) THIS IS WRONG I AM A BUDDHIST! THIS OFFENDED MOI
I, as a Buddhist, meditate, I pray to the Buddha and other Bodhisattva's, I give offerings, and overall, I try to be a good person.
What part of Asia has followers of Buddhism and Islam?
All the countries like China, Japan, Singapore,Bangkok and Hong Kong and other similar countries follow Buddhism
Buddhism can be found throughout east Asia Japan and Indonesia as a matter of fact most of east Asia of the areas where Islam has the upper hand such as Pakistan Asudi Arabia, UAE, it is not safe to be any religion but that enforced by the government. while others such as Turkey, Iraq, India, allow a choice in religion.
whilecountries such as Pakistan, India united Arab emirate, Afghanistan Uzbekistan turkey, Saudi Arabia Jordan Syria Palestine Iraq and other similar countries follow Islam
China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, The Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and other countries in South East Asia.
The end goal of Buddhism is enlightenment or 'Nirvana'. This is NOT Heaven. Enlightenment comes when you become non-self or nothing. When you truly cease to exist, you have reached Nirvana.
Mahayana Buddhists believe in a wonderful afterlife Paradise where they can spend time learning how to reach Nirvana. Of course, once Nirvana is reached, they cease to exist. This is the goal of all Buddhism. Non-Self.
What is the city of origin of Buddhism?
Guatama Buddha was born in what is now Lumbini, Nepal. After he left his father's house he traveled to various places in Nepal and India, and then he became enlightened while sitting under a Bodhi tree in what is now Bodh Gaya, India.
What were the early visions of Buddha?
a bonsai tree
I always heard it was a banyan tree, which is more sensible. A bonsai tree is a miniature tree, artificially dwarfed by a Japanese technique, the size of a house plant. Even in his starved condition, Buddha would have had trouble sitting under it, whereas a banyan tree is more than large enough.
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It was Bodhi Tree (Ficus religiosa).
The Founder of Buddhism was the historical Buddha (which means the Fully Enlightened One), born in Nepal (year 623 B.C.) as Prince Siddhartha of the Sakya Kingdom. The natives of ancient Nepal were the Kirat people (Tamang, Sherpa, Rai, Gurung etc.), better known as the Gurkhas today.
Prince Siddhartha left Nepal (in the Himalayan mountain range) at the age of 29 years old, crossed over to ancient India and eventually gained Enlightenment (Bodhi) at the age of 35 years old, at a place subsequently named as Bodhi Gaya. He became the Buddha.
The key teachings of the Buddha, encapsulated in the Four Noble Truths, are:
1. Living a simple life of love, non-violence and compassion will result in a person getting reborn in heaven, or in good circumstances as a human being. The former is consistent with Christ's Teachings. For the latter, clinical cases of human rebirth have been extensively researched and published by Dr. Ian Stevenson, MD and university Professor.
2. Practising meditation / yoga / Zen together with point 1, will bring about spiritual happiness here and hereafter. This is consistent with Laozi's Teachings.
3. Practising points 1 and 2, together with the initial knowledge of the intrinsic nature of all worldly things (impermanence, insubstantiality and insatisfactoriness) will lead to the end of rebirth, and go beyond heavenly existence. This is termed as Nibbana (Nirvana), which the Buddha has described to us as Highest Happiness, Freedom, Unique and Beyond Space-Time Continuum. Nibbana is not existence nor extinction.
4. The precise method for point 3 is known as the Noble Eight-fold Path.
At the age of 80 years old, the historical Buddha entered into Final Nibbana (Parinibbana). 500 years later (year 57 A.D.), the Buddha appeared in a dream to the Han Emperor Mingdi, which prompted the Emperor to ask his Court the next day about 'a golden man with light shining from his neck'. This account is recorded in China's historical archives. One of the official said he had heard of a holy man in the western region, who had find immortality and whose skin was golden. Subsequently, Han Mingdi sent an expedition to found out more. This marked the spread of Buddha's Teachings from the western region (Himalayas), and also India, into the central plains of ancient China.
2600 years later, Albert Einstein said:
"There is a third stage of religious experience…the individual feels the futility of human desires…beginnings of cosmic religious feeling already appear at an early stage of development, e.g., in many of the Psalms of David and in some of the Prophets. Buddhism…contains a much stronger element of this."
Robert Oppenheimer said:
"If we ask, for instance, whether the position of the electron remains the same, we must say 'no'. If we ask whether the electron's position changes with time, we must say 'no'. If we ask whether it is in motion, we must say 'no'. The Buddha has also given such answers when asked (about Parinibbana)."
Niels Bohr said:
"For a parallel to the lesson of atomic theory...(we must turn) to those kinds of epistemological problems with which already thinkers like the Buddha and Laozi have been confronted, when trying to harmonize our position as spectators and actors in the great drama of existence."
What are the four marks of Buddhism?
A laksana or mark of a great man is a characteristic than distinguishes a Buddha from other men. The Buddha is said to possess 32 of these marks according to some of the ancient Buddhist texts one of them which is known as the Mahavastu. The 32 marks or laksana according to the Mahavastu are as follows: 1) He has feet with level tread;
2) He has designs of wheels in the soles of his feet; 3) He has long toes and fingers; 4) He has broad and projecting heels; 5) He has sharply arched feet; 6) His legs are like an antelope; 7) His body is divinely straight; 8) He can touch his knees with his hands when standing erect; 9) His male organ is enclosed in a sheath; 10) His body is proportioned like a banyan tree; 11) His hands are soft and
tender; 12) His hands and feet are net-like; 13) His body is perfectly formed; 14) The down of his body
grows in single hairs, one to each pore; 15) The down of his body grows straight upwards; 16) He has
a smooth skin; 17) He has a [?] skin; 18) He has the gait of a swan; 19) There is no hollow between his
shoulder blades; 20) His body has seven convex surfaces; 21) He has an exquisite sense of taste; 22)
His skin is the colour of gold; 23) He has the bust of a lion; 24) He has regular teeth; 25) His teeth are
perfectly white; 26) His bust is consistently rounded; 27) His tongue is long and slender; 28) His voice is that of a Brahma; 29) His eyes are blue; 30) His eyelashes like a cow; 31) Between his eyebrows he has a hairy mole (urna); 32); His head is shaped like a royal turban (usnisa).
What Albert Einstein says about Buddhism?
Buddists are more accepting of people and their religions. If you are totally accepting of each and every religion, you must be a buddist!
The unconditioned state of reality that is the highest goal of buddhism is?
attainable thru your own efforts.
Those who have reached it say it is indescribable, but some of the things that are said are: utter freedom, awareness and bliss, suffering completely extinguished. But, at that, I've probably said too much.
There are many biographies online of people who have realized their true nature. You see, it's not actually a goal and not something you achieve. All sentient beings have buddha nature, although they have obstacles to realizing it.
How and where is Buddhism practiced?
The practice of Buddhism is involves the practice of Morality, Concentration and Wisdom. In Morality, the practitioner takes up a minimum of 5 precepts to follow in daily life. In Concentration, the practitioner practices meditation for calming the mind. In Wisdom, the practitioner gains insight through a still mind or develops wisdom through reading the teachings of the Buddha.
When was beginning of Buddhism?
Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born in Northern India (now Nepal) about 563 BCE to King Suddhodana and his wife Queen Maha Maya, so he was born a Prince. His mother died shortly after childbirth. The hermit seer Asita told his father, the King, that his son would either grow up to be a great ruler or a great holy man. The King didn't want his son to be a Holy man so he made it that the prince was only surrounded by luxury and beauty and hid from him sickness, old age and death. At 16 Siddhartha married his cousin of the same age named Yaśodharā. They had a child named Rāhula which means fetter (think ball and chain).
At the age of 29, Siddhartha left his palace to meet his subjects. Despite his father's efforts to hide from him the sick, aged and suffering, Siddhartha was said to have seen what the real world for the first time and was deeply troubled about the fact that so many people suffer. So he left his wife and child and renounced his throne to find out the answer to why there was suffering. Now it should be noted when Buddhists speak of suffering this includes dissatisfaction (unhappiness) with the way things are. Siddhartha went to study with various gurus to try to find the answer to his question. Theses gurus had him do various types of yoga and meditation to try to help him with his quest. None of them seem to have an answer to his question though.
Siddhartha left these various gurus and joined in with a group of ascetics. Asceticism is a path in which you deprive the body in order to conquer and control the mind. He practiced asceticism fiercely, almost to the point of death. At that point he realized that neither giving in to pleasure, as he did when he was a prince, nor trying to punish the body, was the proper path to finding the answer. So he sat down and meditated under a pi-pal tree. During this meditation he discovered the root of all suffering and the path to how to overcome suffering and became enlightened.
After his enlightenment he meets up with his ascetic friends, who by now were critical of him for leaving the path of asceticism. But he explains to them what he had discovered and they were instantly converted. From there The Buddha taught for 45 years until his death at 85 converting many to his teachings and now Buddhism is the 4th largest religion in the world.
First, to "pray" you have to have a deity to pray to. Buddhism has no deities so Buddhists never pray. They do meet together to receive teachings, sermons, chant, think, meditate, reflects, remember. They do this as often as local cusom dictates, schedules permit, personal desires require, or never. There is no specific day (like the Moslem Friday, the Jewish Saturday or the Christian Sunday) to do this.
What is the lasting peace that buddhists seek?
Nirvana. They believe that it is achieved by taking the eight-fold path.
What are scared texts of Buddhism?
The Tripitaka is the earliest collection of Buddhist writings. Initially, they were orally transmitted, but were written down by the third century BCE. The word means "the three baskets," and refers to the way the texts were first recorded. The early writing material was long, narrow leaves, which were sewn together on one side. Bunches of these were then stored in baskets. This is a large collection, running 45 volumes in one modern edition.
The Tripitaka is comprised of the Sutras, sermons and teachings of Buddha; Abhidharma, discourses on interpretation of the doctrine; and Vinay, rules for monks and nuns in monastic life. So the Tripitaka defines what Buddhism is and how we are to live our lives.
'Buddha' is not a name, but a title. The word 'Buddha' means 'The awakened one' so i think it was a proper human name but a name like 'god' , not a real name but like a label.
Addendum: In Thich Nhat Hanh's biography of the Buddha Old Path White Clouds he writes that as he was meditating under the pippala (bo) tree two children would come and visit him to make offerings and receive lessons. After he attained enlightenment he asked the children to bring their friends so he could share his discoveries with them.
After a teaching on mindfulness involving tangerines the children suggested to him the name "Buddha" which is taken from budh which means "awaken" in Magadhi. They also suggested naming his path the "Path of Awareness" and the tree under which he reached enlightenment the "Bodhi" tree as bodhi shares the same root as budh.
Who started the eightfold path of enlightenment?
The eightfold path was taught by Siddhartha Gautama who is recognized as Buddha in the 4th or 5th century B.C. in India and describes the way to end suffering by being compassionate:
Wisdom: 1. Right View
2. Right Intention
Ethical Conduct: 3. Right Speech
4. Right Action
5. Right Livelihood
Mental Development: 6. Right Effort
7. Right Mindfulness
8. Right Concentration
