Biddha's Second Noble Truth Study Guide
BUDDHA’S SECOND NOBLE TRUTH AND
IT’S RELEVANCE IN THE
PRESENT WORLD
Not to do any evil, to cultivate what is wholeness, to purify one’s mind: this is the teaching of the Buddhas
(Dhammapada, verse 183)
Buddha’s Second Noble Truth and Its Relevance in the Present World
TABLE OF CONTENTS acknowledgement iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS v v general introduction 1
CHAPTER 1 3
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF BUDDHA 3
1.0 Introduction 3
1.1 The Life of Buddha 3
1.2 The Main Teachings of Buddha 7
1.3 The Valid Sources (Buddhist Scriptures) 9
1.4 General Concept of ‘Suffering’ In Today’s World 11
1.5 How did Buddha find an explanation for suffering? 11
1.6 Conclusion 11
CHAPTER 2 13
DETAILED EXPLANATION …show more content…
His actual name was Siddhartha and Gautama is his family name. It was only after the Enlightenment he got the name ‘Buddha’ which means ‘The Enlightened One’. The exact place of his birth is understood to be the Lumbini garden in the city of Kapilavastu, which at present lies just inside the border of the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. Actually,
There is not much information about his early life. What we find are legends. In one of the legends we are told that the Buddha came down upon the earth, from the tushita heaven, where he is said to have been a residing deity. The other legend tells us that Gautama’s mother, Maya, participated in a festival during which she conceived the future Buddha, “the inner man of all beings”, in her womb in the shape of a white elephant. Maya’s conception caused the great miracles to happen, as the sun and moon, laws of nature began to behave in a strange way. Risi Asita as the legend goes is said to have come to kapilavastu upon learning, through divine insight, the birth of the great being. He is said to have predicted that the child would either become a sovereign ruler, or a mendicant, a tathagata, a
IT’S RELEVANCE IN THE
PRESENT WORLD
Not to do any evil, to cultivate what is wholeness, to purify one’s mind: this is the teaching of the Buddhas
(Dhammapada, verse 183)
Buddha’s Second Noble Truth and Its Relevance in the Present World
TABLE OF CONTENTS acknowledgement iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS v v general introduction 1
CHAPTER 1 3
THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF BUDDHA 3
1.0 Introduction 3
1.1 The Life of Buddha 3
1.2 The Main Teachings of Buddha 7
1.3 The Valid Sources (Buddhist Scriptures) 9
1.4 General Concept of ‘Suffering’ In Today’s World 11
1.5 How did Buddha find an explanation for suffering? 11
1.6 Conclusion 11
CHAPTER 2 13
DETAILED EXPLANATION …show more content…
His actual name was Siddhartha and Gautama is his family name. It was only after the Enlightenment he got the name ‘Buddha’ which means ‘The Enlightened One’. The exact place of his birth is understood to be the Lumbini garden in the city of Kapilavastu, which at present lies just inside the border of the Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal. Actually,
There is not much information about his early life. What we find are legends. In one of the legends we are told that the Buddha came down upon the earth, from the tushita heaven, where he is said to have been a residing deity. The other legend tells us that Gautama’s mother, Maya, participated in a festival during which she conceived the future Buddha, “the inner man of all beings”, in her womb in the shape of a white elephant. Maya’s conception caused the great miracles to happen, as the sun and moon, laws of nature began to behave in a strange way. Risi Asita as the legend goes is said to have come to kapilavastu upon learning, through divine insight, the birth of the great being. He is said to have predicted that the child would either become a sovereign ruler, or a mendicant, a tathagata, a