Buddhism

The Dalai Lama: Who was he? What 3 commitments were his life based on.

- Tibetan Buddhism -Tibetan Monk -Spiritual leader Who's life is guided by three major commitments: 1.The promotion of basic human values or secular ethics in the interest of human happiness. 2.The fostering of inter-religious harmony and the preservation of Tibet's buddhist culture. 3.A culture of peace and non-violence.

1. Is Buddhism a theist religion and is there a belief in god? 2.What is the ultimate transformation that Buddhist aspire to?

1. Buddhism is a northeast region that does not believe in a supernatural God or creator. 2. Buddhist aspire to escape the world of suffering through our own efforts until we finally achieve Nirvana

The Noble Eightfold Path

1. Right view 2. Right Intention WISDOM 3. Right Speech 3. Right Action 4. Right livelihood MORALITY 6.Right effort 7.Right Mindfulness 8. Right Concentration MEDITATION

Buddhism Branch 2: Mahayana- Practiced in Central and east Asia, Europe, and North America

1.Humam aspirations are supported by divine powers and the grace they bestow 2. Key virtue: compassion 3.Rleigous practice is relevant to life in the world, and therefore to laypeople 4.Ideal: the bodhisattva 5.Buddha is a savior 6.Elaborates metaphysics 7.Emphasizes ritual 8.Inclues petitionary prayer 9.Different Mahayana groups: -Vajrayana -Zen -Pure land Buddhism

Buddhism branch 1: Theravada- practiced mainly in southeast Asia

1.Human beings are emancipated by self-effort, without supernatural aid. 2. Key virtue: Wisdom 3.Attainment requires constant commitment, and is primarily for monks and nuns. 4.Ideal: the Arhat(Monks) 5.Buddha a saint, supreme leader and inspirer 6.Minimize metaphysics 7.minimize ritual 8.pracitce centers on meditation

1.What religion was he raised with and what religion did he create? Siddhartha Gautama When was he born? Where was he born?

1.Raised with hinduism. He wanted people to escape Karma and he created Buddhism. 2. Born about 563 B.C.E(500 years before Jesus was born) 3.The foothills of Himalayas in India.

What are the Core beliefs on which Buddhism is founded?

1.The Four Noble Truths about suffering 2.The Eightfold path for liberation from suffering 3.The Wheel of Birth and Death 4. Nirvana

Dukkha

A central fact of human life, variously translated to discomfort, suffering, frustration, or lack of harmony with the environment.

Noble Eightfold Path 1. Right understanding

Be aware of the Buddha's teachings

Noble Eightfold 5.Right Livelihood

Choose a job that hurts no living thing

Noble Eightfold 4.Right action

Do nothing to harm nay living creature

The Buddha preached a religion centered on heavy-handed authority. TRUE OR FALSE

FALSE

Like Hinduism, Buddhism maintains that the brahmin castes is the only caste from which release from the cycle of birth, death and re birth is possible. TRUE OR FALSE

False

The Buddhas goal was to become one of the world's great metaphysicians, by attempting to answer life's big mysteries, e.g., is the soul eternal or not eternal, is the world infinite or finite, does the Buddha exist after death or does not exist after death?

False

Unlike Buddhism, which emerged by slow, largely imperceptible spiritual accretion, hinduism appeared overnight, fully formed. TRUE OR FALESE

False

What is the only thing the Buddha feels we need to overcome?

How to overcome human suffering.

Dharma

In Buhdism, the doctrine or law, as reveled by the Buddha; also the correct conduct for each person according to his or her level of awareness. It focuses on a holistic approach to both personal and spiritual fulfillment, as well as social harmony.

Noble Eightfold 7.Right mindfulness

Lean to control your thoughts and emotions in order to quiet your mind

The first Noble Truth

Life inevitably involves suffering, is imperfect and unsatisfactory. Suffering and frustration-Dukkha is an unavoidable part of living: -Physical pain -Sickness -Greif -Unfilled desires -Ultimately death We avoid all of these painful things, seeking after happiness instead..

Buddhism definition

Nirvana or Satori, the ultimate egoless state of bliss, the extinction of the self.

Karma in Hinduism

Our actions and their effects on this life and lives to come

Buddhism on Karma

Our actions and their effects on this life and lives to come. -There is a chain of causation threading each life to those that have led up to it, and those that will follow. Each life is in its present condition because of the way the lives that led up to it were lived. -Throughout this casual sequence the will remains free. -People remain at liberty to shape there own destinies -Casual connectedness of life is affirmed, but the idea that some sort of substance (soul) be transmitted is denied.

Noble Eightfold 8.Right Concentration

Practice the deepest meditation, which leads to the highest state of enlightenment, known as Nirvana

Noble Eightfold 3.Right speech

Say nothing to harm others.

Noble Eightfold 6. Right Effort

Strive to become a good person

The Second Noble truth

Suffering originates in our desires. Desires are wishes for things to be different than they are, we wish for -Good health -Riches and fame -Eternal life -Perpetual happiness -Permanence and security

The Third Noble Truth

Suffering will cease if all negative desire ceases. The only certain and final way to escape from suiffering-dukkha-is by removing desire.

Buddha preached a religion devoid of the supernatural. TRUE OR FALSE

TRUE

Buddhism on Reincarnation

The Buddha heavily criticized the prevailing Hindu interpretations of reincarnation. The only thing transmitted by chain reaction is "influence" and not "substance"

Do we have immortal souls?

The Buddhist wheel is symbolic of the Buddha's teachings on rebirth. The self becomes like a flame that passed around the circle from candle to candle in continual movement.

Nirvana defintion

The Ultimate Transformation

Reincarnation in Hinduism

The belief that the soul leaves the dead body and enters a new one, being born over and over in countless bodies. Whether the body is that of an animal of other life form, the self remains the same.

The four noble truths

The foundation for Buddha's religious philosophy is contained tin the four noble truths suffering, from which all other dimensions of his thinking flow

Nirvana Definition

The ultimate egoless star of bliss in BuDDHISM; The extinction of the self.

The fourth Noble Truth

There is a way to realize this state:The noble eightfold path. The buddha was not a pessimist, rather the Buddha was a hard worker, working to free himself from desire and suffering. Extinguishing desire and suffering is a process that can be achieved by following the guidelines embodied in the Noble eightfold path, devoting to pursing -Morality -Focus -Wisdom

According to the Buddha, religious rituals are "trappings"- irrelevant to the hard, demanding job or ego-reduction. TRUE OR FALSE

True

According to the text, there are typically six aspects of religion: authority, ritual, speculation, tradition, grace and mystery. TRUE OR FALSE

True

Buddhism is unique in that it is almost entirely devoid of the six common aspects of religion. TRUE OR FALSE

True

In many ways, Buddhism is a religion of reaction against Hindu perversions, e.g., the authority of the brahmins, which had become hereditary and exploitative. TRUE OR FALSE

True

The Buddha preached a religion devoid of tradition and encouraged his followers to think for themselves. TRUE OR FALSE

True

Noble Eightfold Path 2.Right intensions

Try to follow these teachings wholeheartedly.