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Title: buddhism


1
buddhism
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Founder/origin
  • Siddhartha Gautama
  • 563-483 BCE
  • Present-day Nepal

3
Creation myth
  • Universe is cyclical
  • No godno relationship with god

4
Holidays/clothing/ HOLy book
  • New Years Day
  • Birth of Buddha (Vesak)
  • Sangha Day
  • Dharma Day
  • Monkssaffron robes
  • Holy book Tripitaka
  • Branches
  • Theravada (Tibetan)
  • Mahayana
  • Zen
  • Vajrayana

5
Holy
cities/hierarchy/today/women
  • Lumbini
  • Temple
  • Buddhist monks
  • TibetanDalai Lama at top
  • 376 million, mostly in Asia
  • Men and women equal

6
Basic beliefs
  • 4 Noble Truths
  • Dukkhalife is full of suffering
  • Suffering caused by desires
  • Ending suffering ends desires
  • Follow 8-fold path to end desire
  • People should become self-aware
  • Learn mental discipline
  • Avoid harming others
  • Abandon destructive feelings and behaviors
  • Act and think in constructive ways
  • Buddha any fully enlightened person
  • Nirvana ends cycle of reincarnation, achieve
    enlightenment

7
Rituals
  • Meditationbreathing
  • 8-fold path
  • Five Precepts
  • Do not kill
  • Do not steal
  • Do not engage in sexual misconduct
  • Do not lie
  • Do not take intoxicants

8
Salvation/afterlife
  • 8-fold path
  • Right understanding, thought, speech, action,
    living, effort, mindfulness, meditation
  • Goal is to reach nirvana
  • Reincarnation until you reach nirvana
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