Buddhism

Yes; it depends on the religious group. Many Native American peoples continue to follow their ancestral religions. African religions are still practiced--and in India the "indigenous" religion is the main form of religion. Many Japanese still practice Shintoism and many Koreans still practice shamanism.

Buddha' s religion was Buddhist.

A way that you can remember that is:

Take away the "ist"

And add a small "a",

Now you have the word Buddha

And that's that for today!

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The founder of Buddhism. Lord Buddha was a prince, who forsook the comforts of a palace to seek enlightenment. He realised the essential unreality of the world, in the bliss of nirvana and spent the remainder of his life teaching others how to escape the endless cycle of birth and death.

Buddha was born approximately 400 BC. He was a noble prince and it is said his father sought to shield the young prince Siddharta from the pain and suffering of the world.

However, at one point, Buddha sought to find a greater meaning to life. So, in disguise, he left the Palace and wandered around the Kingdom. Here, Siddhartha came across, death, old age, illness and suffering. This showed him the transitory nature of life, so he resolved to seek the meaning of life.

Siddhartha left the Palace, including his wife and child, and travelled into the forests to spend his time meditating with other ascetics.

In his quest for enlightenment, the Buddha fasted excessively so his body wasted away; however, enlightenment remained a far cry. At one point, a passing women gave him some food to eat and the Buddha realised it was a mistake to seek enlightenment by torturing the body. He regained his strength and resolved to follow a 'middle path' of avoiding excesses of fasting and feasting.

On one day, the Buddha decided to sit under a Buddha tree until he attained enlightenment. For several days, he sat in meditation seeking nirvana. He was tested by various forces which tried to prevent him realising the goal.

However, the Buddha was successful and entered in the blissful consciousness of nirvana for several days. On returning to normal consciousness, The Buddha made the decision to spend the remainder of his life teaching others how to escape the inherent suffering of life.

For many years, the Buddha travelled around India, especially around the Ganges plain and in Nepal, teaching his philosophy of liberation. His teachings were transmitted orally and not written down until many years after his death.

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Buddharupa (one single word) is a Pali term referring to the statues of the Buddha.

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Buddhism is a part of Hinduism in the sense that Christianity is a part of Judaism. "Buddha", or, Prince Siddhartha Gauthama was of the Sakya clan, a Hindu clan in present day Nepal. He was raised an orthodox Hindu and eventually went off to pursue enlightenment which was not an unusual option of that era for a man of his station and religion. One of the problems that Buddha had with Hinduism was the caste system and later when he was teaching he stressed the equality of human beings from a spiritual or karmic perspective. Buddha was a Hindu reformer and taught essentially Hindu teachings and practices. Much of what is called Buddhist practice is common to Hinduism.

In this way Hinduism and Buddhism are related in much the same way that Judaism and Christianity are related, Christ being a Jew reformer.

But no, to specifically answer the question: Buddhism is not formally a "part" of Hinduism. Then again, there is no such thing as "Buddhism" outside of the west any more than there is a such thing as Christism. In "Buddhist" countries the practice is referred to as "Dharma".

Lord Buddha was born in India. He share His Teachings in India and He died in India. Whether Buddha exist or not, the world and what it contains was, is and will be subject to the Natural Laws. Lord Buddha package these Laws and shared His way of life; to be liberated out of Samsara, an everlasting birth and death cycle. To cultivate His way of life we need to look inwards (within us) and not really on rituals. Pilgrimage is part of the ritual aspect and Buddhism does not emphysis much on it. Buddhism is really a mind culture with emphysis on training the mind, of living 'Now' and in doing so we bring the 'mountain' to us instead of we going to the 'mountain'. To go on a pilgrimage is just a historical tour nothing spiritual.

Buddhist missionaries spread the new faith, first to Sri Lanka.

Buddhism means putting down "I/my/me," and helping other beings. So any type of possession is no problem. The important thing is how you use these possessions. Whatever possessions are available, if you use them with the intention of helping all beings (not just yourself), then that's true Buddhism.

Buddha was a prince of an Indian clan who meditated for a long time to acheive enlightenment and be freed from the cycle of rebirth, and thus find an end to man's suffering. The Five Precepts are: # To refrain from harming other living beings # To refrain from taking that which is not given # To refrain from sexual misconduct # To refrain from bad speech # To refrain from taking drugs and intoxicants which lead to lack of mindfulness

Buddhism is not a religion where there are commandments, rites and rituals; a believe system. Buddhism is a way of life where you can evolve to greater consciousness, a higher consciousness. Therefore Buddhism is an education where you could improve your standard of life as you evolve. Buddhism evolves aound the perfection of virtues and wisdom to attain the ultimate purpose, that is enlightenment. To do that Buddhism is about multiple lives, birth and reborn again and again until enlightenment is attained. In Buddhism, hell and heaven are just one of the few realms of existence. It is therefore a continuition of being live after live; you can continue or you can discontinue. If you continue you may reach higher level of consciousness in human or heavenly realm. If you discontinue you may downgrade yourself to lower realms like animal, hungry ghost or hell realm; justlike you can stop your education at high school level, deprivate you of a good career or well being.

Buddhists do not worship any gods or people, so there is no one who leads any worship service. A Buddhists master (who might have one of a long list of titles, like Geshe, Lama, Rinpoche, etc) will lead teaching or meditation sessions.

Siddhartha Buddha married his cousin, Yashodhara.

Buddhas mother died shortly after he was born.

Escape the cycle of death and rebirth.

Buddhists have no creation story like many religions and do not waste time pursuing an answer. By the very nature of the question (nobody is still around who knows) and the lack of a deity to act as a causative force it is pointless to purse the question. If the question was to be pursued the effort would negatively impact the ime available for the questioner to become more skillful at living according to the Eightfold Path.

The questioning of the origin of the Universe is likened to man shot with a poisoned arrow stops the doctor from treating his would by a series of unanswerable questions every time the doctor sets to work. He asks "Who shot me?" "Who trained him?" "Who made hos bow?" " Who made his arrows?" Eventually his time passes and he dies with hi questions, no answers and no treatment.

The Tripitaka (three baskets) is a set of books that contains the Buddha's teachings. It 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.

Buddhists believe that Marriage is a social ceremony, whereas Christians believe marriage is more to do with religion, as-well as the social context. A Christian wedding would take part in a religious place, but in Buddhism, Monks aren't allowed anywhere near the marriage ceremony.

Siddhartha reached enlightenment through vipassana meditation under a bodhi tree.

The Vipassana meditation involves two meditations.

Anapana (minimum of 3 days of meditating) = This breathing exercise helps your mind focus and concentrate. You observe your breath flowing in and out of your nose. Then observe the sensations it makes as the breath enters and leaves your body. You continue to focus until you can feel your breath just at the point where your upper lip meets the bottom of your nose. When your mind is sharp and clear you then move to the next meditation.

Vipassana (Daily for 1-2 hours per day) = You then take that sharp concentration and observe the sensations on your body piece by piece, From the top of your head to the bottoms of your toes. Slowly observing every sensation, warm, cold, itchy, tingly, buzzing, wet, dry, whatever the sensation it doesn't matter... but just observe. As you move through your body with such sharp concentration you will notice each part of your body becoming more relaxed.

If you would like to experience the same meditation that Siddhartha you can find a Vipassana meditation center just about anywhere in the world.

As Buddha said: Don't take my word for it. Go out and experience it yourself. Once you experience it, you will realize the truth.

He made several realizations on his way to this enlightening meditation.

The 1st realization also known as the 1st noble truth is that there is suffering.

(This is an extract. Please make time to read the full story of Siddhartha)

Siddhartha was born to a king and had never experienced suffering before. He went outside the castle into the village and saw an ill man and realized that people fall ill. He saw a dead man and realized that people die.

He then went and became an ascetic starving himself to near death. He came to the realization that starving oneself only leads to more suffering and discovered the middle path.

The Second noble truth being attachment. He realized that when we are attached to things we suffer. If you are attached to your favorite book and this book gets misplaced you can choose to suffer or free yourself from the attachment.

The Third noble truth is that there is a way to not suffer at all, to be completely freed from suffering...

The Fourth noble truth is that if you follow the 8-fold path you will be free from suffering. Right-View, Right-Intention, Right-Speech, Right-Action, Right-Livelihood, Right-Effort, Right-Mindfulness, Right-Concentration.

Buddhism started in Northern India in about 2500BC. I first spread in India and then China. Since the Buddha's death it has spread throughout most of east Asia, Europe and now the America's. Buddhism is the 4th largest religion in the world.

Buddhists view violence as the response of a confused mind to worldly experiences. Violence is not considered a "sin" but an unskillful means toward the ultimate end of achieving happiness. People commit violent actions out of anger, and they become angry because they are confused about what will make them happy. A simplified line of thinking of a person who commits violence is something like this: I want pleasure, and having X will make me happy. I can't have X because this person or that situation is preventing me. If the person or situation would only be different than it is, I could have X. The person or situation that is thwarting me should be different and so I'm angry, and I will do something about it! So the angry person thinks that by forcing the person or situation to be different s/he will be happy, but true happiness results from recognizing that it is really our grasping at pleasure that causes our suffering, not the fact that we don't get what we think will be pleasurable.

The Buddha lived for about 80 years. The exact dates of his birth and death are conjecture. This is a reasonable age but not exceptional especially for a man of quiet habits, regular exercize and a simple diet.

The beauti of the religions history is very important in this regard. I find so many interesting things between Buddhadhamma and Islam. Just immediately after the Buddhas enlightenment there were two buisnesmen calle Tapassu and Bhalluka who came from Sunaparanta (old Bharatian mening is middle east). The first people who took the Buddha and Dhamma as refuge offerd porrige and honey to the Buddha and Buddha handed over hair relics to them. Later Tapassu the elder brother Tapassu came to the Buddha and became a monk in the name of Punna from Sunaparanta. Having received higher ordination and Bhavana object he left for Middle east and practiced with their relatives and neighbourhood. Having developed higher mental developments Ven Punna came to visit Buddha with a group of devotees who dressed in white.

....... Later Ven Punna established four different monastic places with red sanddlewood. The first one ashram is founded Mekkha. Even today you will be able to see the oldest monastic inside and under the same shrining place. The second place is Jerusalam near the very arrogent ocean bay. Other two places were not found.

Basically the followers of the Buddha observe not to kill any living beings, not to steal, not to have sensuall misconduct, telling lie, alchohol. All the five precepes are awailable in original form of Islam. Thought they have changed for their personal benefits.

Genorocity, morality and Bhavana are highly practiced in both religions. Mohomad Nabi practiced 15 years bhavana other called it meditation some other say comunicated with devine beings...... WE HAVE TO STUDY HONESTLY AND OBVIOUSLY IF WE ARE SINCER ENOUGH TO SEE THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGION AND RELIGIONS