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Buddhism
The Buddha
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Important
Figures
The Bodhi tree
Dalai Lama
• Ocean of Wisdom
• The current Dalai Lama is 76 years old
1937
Current date
Choosing of the Dalai
Lama
Reincarnation
High Lamas
Dream
Smoke
Oracle Lake
Belongings of the previous Dalai Lama
The Four Noble Truths
• The Four Noble Truths contain the essence of the
Buddha's teachings. It was these four principles that
the Buddha came to understand during his
meditation under the Bodhi tree.
1. The truth of suffering
2. The truth of the origin of suffering (the cause of suffering)
3. The truth of the cessation of suffering (realising there is a cure
to suffering/making it stop)
4. The truth of the path to the cessation of suffering (the
eightfold path, the journey to stop suffering)
Buddhist Meditation
A form of mental concentration that leads ultimately
to enlightenment and spiritual freedom.
There are two main types of Buddhist meditation:
o Insight
o Tranquillity.
• Buddha Day
The Eight Fold Path
The Noble Eightfold Path is
extremely important in
Buddhism since it
impacts on how people
live.
Following the Noble
Eightfold Path means
that believers try and
live better lives in
accordance with the
morality enclosed in it.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Harming things
Taking what is not given
Sexual misconduct
Lying or gossip
Taking intoxicating substances
(drugs, alcohol)
The Wheel of Life
The Wheel of Life
The realm of
humans – the most
fortunate state. They
have the best chance
of enlightenment.
They suffer the least
but are not in total
bliss like the Gods.
The realm of Gods – live in
a state of bliss in the realm
of heaven. They live for a
long time but they too will
die. At the bottom there
are angry Gods known as
the Titans who dislike the
other Gods.
The wheel is held by
a demon known as
Yama the Lord of
death. Yama
symbolises the
impermanence of
everything.
Buddhism teaches to
not be afraid of
death and that it is
not the end.
The Three Fires – the
3 main causes of
suffering. Greed,
ignorance and
hatred represented
in a pig, rooster and
snake.
Represents the Buddhists view of the universe. There are 5
sections on the wheel which a soul can be reborn into.
The realm of animalsanimals are considered to
lack the awareness to
become enlightened.
Buddhists do not believe it is
a good thing to be reborn as
an animal although they do
believe in treating every
living thing with kindness.
Hell- at the bottom
of the wheel.
People here get
tortured but only
The realm of hungry ghosts – stuck
until their bad
between mortal realms full of their
karma has been unfulfilled desires. Symbolised by their
worked off.
huge bellies and tiny mouths that
cannot be satisfied.