dubbed the country. Our agenda for the first day of our tour started with a tour of Wat Po. One of the 370 temples in Bangkok alone‚ it is home to the famous Reclining Buddha‚ which is said to be 46 meters long. Also world–famous are the golden Buddha at the WatTrinig (“wat” being Thai for “temple”) and the dazzling Emerald Buddha. There are 2100 temples in all of Thailand‚ where 90 percent of the people are Buddhists. Our loquacious guide regales us with the colorful history of Bangkok and how
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Buddhism 22 indicative hours The focus of this study is Buddhism‚ one of the major religious traditions‚ as a living religious system. Syllabus Outcomes: P3 investigates religious traditions and belief systems P4 examines significant aspects of religious traditions P5 describes the influence of religious traditions in the life of adherents P6 selects and uses relevant information about religion from a variety
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Hinduism and Buddhism have a very long and complicated relationship. The Buddha was born into a Hindu family‚ and some Hindu’s believe that it’s just an off shoot of Hinduism and the Buddha was a part of the Hindu pantheon‚ a view that is not accepted by many Buddhists. It is widely accepted that Buddhism became so popular because it released people from the oppression of tradition and orthodoxy of Hinduism. The teachings of the Buddha created hope and aspiration for those who had otherwise no hope of
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known as Buddha. During Guatama’s meditation‚ he found that life was an endless cycle because of desire‚ thirst‚ and craving. Buddha taught that extreme indulgence and the way of asceticism should not be practiced‚ for you should seek to live in the middle way‚ a balance in life. Buddha was open to everyone to teach the Buddhist way‚ so that everyone could reach his or her own enlightenment. Buddha was not open to the Brahmin system that many Hindus follow or the sacrifice of any animal. Buddha has many
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three main types of common suffering‚ old age‚ sickness and death. According to Buddha suffering goes much deeper than those three examples. He says that life is not ideal and constantly fails to live up to our expectations. Humans are full of desires‚ when you satisfy these desires the pleasure only lasts a small amount of time. When we are not suffering from illness or obvious suffering‚ we feel unfulfilled. Buddha teaches this as the truth about what it is to suffer. The second noble truth is
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suggest that the earliest scriptures we have might be as ancient as the earliest Theravada scriptures. The Mahayana Scriptures • The origin of Mahayana scriptures is much debated • Some claim that as they have emerged so many centuries after the Buddha himself‚ they can only be interpretations of the Buddha’s teachings (Theravada view!). • Some claim there must have been a parallel Buddhist council held at the same time as the 1 st council at which the Mahayana teachings were recited. • Others claim
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based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama‚ he received the name Buddha when he became enlightened and discovered the truth about life and suffering. It is a religion about why we suffer and how we can get rid of it. A spiritual goal for Buddhists is to reach nirvana‚ the most enlightened and blissful state that one can achieve because there is no suffering in nirvana. One interesting feature of Buddhism is that there is no god. Buddha himself said he is not a god‚ nor was he sent by god. Unlike most
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these two religions are quite similar‚ which will be explained in this paragraph. Confucianism was founded by a man named Confucius; which is how the religion got its name. Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama but was called Buddhism because Buddha means the one who has awakened. Confucianism was founded in the Chinese state of Lu‚ where Confucius was born in 551 BCE. Buddhism was founded in Northern India where Siddhartha was born in 563 BCE. Both of the religions were formed in the mid-500s
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tributaries. Carved into the Bamiyan Cliffs are the two niches of the giant Buddha statues (55m and 38m high) destroyed by the Taliban in 2001‚ and numerous caves forming a large ensemble of Buddhist monasteries‚ chapels and sanctuaries along the foothills of the valley dating from the 3rd to the 5th century C.E. In several of the caves and niches‚ often linked by galleries‚ there are remains of wall paintings and seated Buddha figures. In the valleys of the Bamiyan’s tributaries are further groups of
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firm with arguments about the supernatural as nothing and not important. Siddhartha Gautama Siddartha Gautama was the founder of Buddhism. He was called Buddha. He lived a sheltered life and was kept away from pain. Once he saw suffering he wanted to find a way to teach people how to deal with it along with understanding. Buddha discovered the Four Noble Truths. The Four Noble
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