Buddhism

The Four Noble Truths are beliefs that underly most of Buddhist epistemology. They are: 1. The nature of suffering: Birth, aging, illness and death are suffering, as is attachment and aversion. 2. The origin of suffering: craving for things we think will bring us pleasure. 3. The cessation of suffering: freedom from attachment and aversion. 4. The way leading to the cessation of suffering: The eightfold path includes right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livlihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration. What these mean is that we are mistaken or deluded about the true nature of reality, and we have cravings for things we think will bring us pleasure, and aversion for those things we think won't. We think that not getting what we want is what makes us suffer, when it is really the attachment to some things and aversion to others that cause suffering. If we examine the nature of reality deeply, using certain techniques, and cultivate compassion for all beings, we will discover the true nature of reality.

Bodhidharma. He was an Indian sage who traveled china with a small group of followers spreading his teachings.

In the early centuries of the Common Era, the people in various parts of Southeast Asia came to know of Buddhism as a result of increased contact with the Indian merchants who had come to the region to trade. These merchants not only established trading stations in Southeast Asia, but also brought their religions and cultures with them.

Praying five times a day, is not common to all Buddhists although there may be some who do. The goal of most Buddhists is to be present or awake in every moment.

In the Tipitika, there are about 17,000 suttas (sutras). In the Tripitika (the Mahayana canon), there are many thousands more.

There is no one color that represents Buddhism. The International Buddhist Flag has stripes that are:

Blue for loving kindness and universal compassion

Yellow for the Middle Path - avoiding extremes

Red for the blessing of practice

White for the purity of the teaching

Orange for the wisdom of Buddha's teaching

The sixth vertical band is made up of a combination of rectangular bands of the five other colors.

The Teaching of Lord Buddha is not a religion or an 'Ism', it is a way of life - an education to show us the way to end our suffering in the realm of Samsara. His Teaching does not want to relate to the 'first cause' - the chicken or the egg debate. It is more of mind training to understand the true nature of existence than to logically define worldly things.

Hinduism, Judaism and Zoroastrianism are all older than Buddhism, which began in 563 BCE.

A Buddhist Shrine can vary from place to place. The Indian Emperor Ashoka created large stone pillars with sacred Buddhist writings. Other Shrines could include temples or simply statues to the Buddha.

hindus and buddhists now think that if they have a good life, they'll turn into something good.

People who believed in the religion and followers spread and expanded the religion as they traveled. Mostly from India to China and so on.

I think the historical Buddha may have had more than one wife. The Buddha chose to seek a path that led to the cessation of suffering, as we know marriage and relationships of themself do not lead to an end of suffering.

The name for state of bliss in Buddhism is Nirvana.

Buddhism have sacred traditional rituals that are a common part of their religion. Meditation is very important in Buddhism. People meditate to achieve tranquility, insight, and love. This is practiced alone, and as a group. The Prayer Wheel is a hollow cylinder made of metal on a rod handle. The people believe in spinning the prayer wheel as a way to send out prayers and sacred text without verbally speaking.

Buddhist monks and nuns clean down the monasteries and worship to buddha each day, they focus there mind completley on the buddha and on nothing else. they have not too much to eat and eat no meat. they think about how the buddha will repay them and work there hardest for him

Buddhism have always been a great in influence in ancient china and now modern chin society. It shape the way china society is today, a lot of basic philosophy of Buddhism is use in everyday life.

Hindu philosophy advocates highest value for the unknown (GOD) through which proposes to control human societies.

Buddhist philosophy advocates highest value for the order of social system.

Siddhartha Gautama Buddha is the founder of Buddhism.

The Buddha wanted to find a way out of suffering,death for himself and after finding out a way and ending suffering for himself, he started teaching others the same, and organized the community of monks and nuns.

Siddharta Gautama founded Buddhism in 560 BC.

Buddhism is a big fuzzy beast that can be approached from many sides; there is no one answer to this question. I will offer up three possible sets of "basics":

The usual approach is the Four Noble Truths: That every being capable of suffering does suffer; that suffering can end; that there is a source for that suffering; that there is a path to the end of suffering. Truths #1 and #2 are pretty obvious to everyone. #3 seems pretty logical but needs fuller explanation, doesn't it? #4 is a phrase that covers many books' worth of explanation.

Another way of looking at the same thing is the principal that underlies all of Buddhism: causation. That every phenomena -- what you can sense and even what you *think* -- arises dependent on already existing conditions, remains only so long as those conditions don't change and (since everything changes) therefore everything that arises DOES change; and eventually everything passes away. This is the main insight needed to understand the first of the three "marks of existence" (which are *another* way of looking at the fundamentals).

(1) Impermanence: is everything arising from causes, changing, and passing away

(2) Not Self: is the insight that you *too* arise from causes, change, and pass away -- when we are dealing with our own selves we need to recognize that we are not permanent, unchanging, or separate

(3) Dukkha: the word usually translated as "suffering" but that translation is only a rough approximation -- sometimes translated as "unsatisfactoriness" or "stress". Because we tend to see things in the world as permanent (or because we want them to be, even if we see that they are not) we end up constantly confused and disappointed -- the "impermanent" and "not self" nature of the world (when unseen by us) causes us no end of trouble which is what's covered by the word "dukkha".

No they don't, Buddhism does not hinge upon the concept of a Creator God but depends upon the practice of self contemplation It depends on how you look at it. Strictly speaking, no. Buddha (the enlightened one), was a mortal (the prince Siddartha Gautama, who lived in Northern India). He was / is not a god, although he is venerated by Buddhists for having reached enlightenment. There are forms of popular Buddhism (e.g. in Sri Lanka) that incorporate gods to their beliefs, although these are regional variations of Buddhism (which, strictly speaking, in its original form is more of a philosophy than a religion).

The Buddha didn't use a word meaning "enlightenment" when he talked about the change that came to him under the Bodhi tree, the change that he taught could occur to anyone; he used a word that meant "Awake" and sometimes "liberation" or the word "nibbana" which makes reference to the cooling off/blowing out of a flame. The translation of these terms into the word "enlightenment" seems to have come from the vocabulary of westerners who lived in the Post-Enlightenment era (the 1800s).

What is meant by "awakening" is seeing the world more clearly, as opposed to our natural state in which we drift through life not paying a whole lot of attention to what's going on or how things work; this is an attempt to point out that there is a better way to see the world but it does require paying attention, and is preferable to living in a somewhat unreal dream. What is meant by "liberation" is freedom from suffering (dukkha). What is meant by the cooling of "nibbana" (aka "nirvana") is the pleasant state of equanimity reached when one has gotten good at seeing the world more accurately and therefore learned a way of being that ends self-created problems, leading to calm. That which is "blown out" is the concept of a lasting, separate, changeless self.

It is believed that the Buddha died at 80 yrs old by eating rotten food offered to him in charity.

Lord Buddha's death was not due to the last meal he had a special delicacy, namely Sukaramaddava, literally translated as "soft pork", which had been prepared by his generous host, Cunda Kammaraputta but he died to Mesenteric infarction which is a disease commonly found among elderly people, caused by the obstruction of the main artery that supplies the middle section of the bowel-the small intestine-with blood.

Religion was brought about from our earliestancestors Many of the "Hunter Gatherers" performed various rituals. including burying their dead with items. Many religious practices predate recorded history.

Religion became a method for people to understand their place in this universe.

It provided laws and culture to ensure a good life.

Unfortunately religion was also seen by the few as a tool to control the masses, by instilling absolutism, control of books, schools, and establishing itself as the supreme way, caused many wars with many innocent lives lost all in the name of religion. That being said, One major idea which has the most profound effect on humanity from religion is. To control the masses and gain absolute power.