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Buddhism
Mary Shihata
Diana Morgan
Nichole McKay
Emily Gilsdorf
Skylar Ellery
Michael Springer
Gods?
• Buddhism is a
nontheistic religion
• Siddhartha Gautama
AKA Buddha
• Buddha means "the
awakened one”
• There is no God as an
eternal deity.
• Gautama, the founder
of Buddhism, did not
claim to be divine
Basic Beliefs
•
The four noble truths
There is suffering.
There is cause for suffering.
There is cessation of suffering.
There is path leading to the
cessation of suffering.
•
Samsara, karma, nirvana, rebirth
•
The purpose of life is to end suffering.
•
The Noble Eightfold Path
•
Right view right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood
right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration
Practicing
• Practice it at home or
at a temple
• His followers were never
expected to treat him
as a god
• His followers practice
what he believed in
and how he thought
they should live every
day
Rituals/Holidays
• Meditation, mostly
practiced by Zen
Buddhism
• Mudras, Symbolic
hand gestures
• Most rituals were
combined with another
religion depending on
the area (China,
Japan, and Southeast
Asia)
• Vesak is the birthday of
the Buddha and the most
important festival in
Buddhism.
• The Elephant festival is
held to show that a tame
elephant can help to
tame a wild one to say
that an older one should
guide a new Buddhist.
• Once a year in august,
on the night of a full
moon, a procession is
held for one of Buddha’s
teeth held in a great
temple.
Women
• It was believed that
women were able to
achieve enlightenment
and go to nirvana, just
as men were. They were
perceived as equal and
had religious freedom
as well as entrance to
the Holy Order.
Texts and Books
• Cannon and noncanonical texts
• Cannon = words and
teachings of Buddha
himself,
• non-canonical = simply
commentaries on the
Canon text
• Ex. of non-canonical,
The Tripitaka (Pali
Canon)
Mahayana Sutras
the Tibetan Book of
the Dead.
Missions
Asoka
Sent out missionary efforts to
spread Buddhism to other
places, including many Indian
sub-continents such as Burma
and Sri Lanka.
Dignaga
Founder of Buddhist logic
Paramartha
Missionary and translator of the
Buddhist tradition, he spent a
considerable amount of time
"on mission" in china.
Origin and Diffusion
• Buddhism wasn’t hardly
thought of 483 BCE
• The first council was a main
part of the origin of
Buddhism. This group
gathered at the council and
separated into two schools,
the Mahasamghikas and the
Sthaviras.
• At the Third Council the
Buddhists gathered and split
into a third school, the
Sarastivadins.
• These separations are known
as the Great Schisms.
Contact with other
religions
• Buddhism and Hinduism
had a great deal of
contact up until, and
even after, 600 C.E.
because both "religions"
originated in the Indian
and Chinese regions of
Asia.
• Both religions believe in
practicing peace.
Similarities and
Differences
Compare
Contrast
• Hinduism and
Buddhism believe in
reincarnation based on
a person's actions in
the present life.
• Buddhism preaches
the practice of treating
everyone kindly, just as
Christianity does.
• Buddhism, however,
does not have many
shared aspects with
other religions, seeing
as how Buddhism is not
a religion and is more
of a philosophy.
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