Buddhism: Buddhism, The Father Of Buddhism

Buddhism has been around for over two thousand years, and continues to do so in many countries around the world. This religion originates in Asia and has a very unique adversity, much of its structure arose from the end of World War II, predominantly Asian nations needed to restructure society (RoAT 167). The word ‘Buddha’ means one who has awakened and will no longer be reborn. Thereafter, one who will enter nirvana, the state of being free from suffering.

The Kannon Bosatsu, or Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva, is a carved wood statue of a Bodhisattva figure standing about two and one half to three meters tall. This statue shows a high level of detail on the Bodhisattva 's body, and is carved so smoothly that it could be mistaken for a stone carving. The show of skilled craftsmanship can be seen around the shoulders with the interaction of the cloth with the jewelry the Bodhisattva. The statue is placed on an ornate pedestal to cause the figurine to appear taller, giving it a feeling of authority, which contrasts with its calm, expressionless face. While the figure appears to be standing in a meditative state like the Buddha, the jewelry present all over the body of this figure distinguishes this figure as a Bodhisattva instead of a Buddha. In his book, The Story of Buddhism a Concise guide to Its History and Teachings, Donald S. Lopez Jr. establishes the importance of imagery in Buddhism. One major point he makes concerning the worship of Buddhist figures, is that the disciples of Buddhism not only believe that the figures are a mere representation of Buddha, but that the figures actually become and are animated by Buddha, an argument which seems to hold merit as truth.

Buddhism is a world religion based on the teachings of Buddha, who was born Siddhartha Gautama in Nepal around 563 B.C.E. and lived in Nepal and India. Siddhartha was a privileged man who withdrew from the world, learned and meditated, and achieved the Enlightenment that made him Buddha. Buddhism has undergone schisms and evolutions but has some core beliefs such as Nirvana, Anatta and Dependent Arising. In addition, the Buddha's teaching centered on the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path to end the cycle of suffering and achieve Enlightenment and Nirvana.

Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in the world, with more than 5 million believers in the world. Buddhism is a kind of religion and law that contains various traditions, beliefs, and spiritual practices. Buddhism from India, between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, and gradually spread to Asia. Although Buddhism originated in India, China has many believers in the dissemination and contribution. Chinese Buddhism began in the Han Dynasty and became the most powerful in the Tang Dynasty. With the development of society, Buddhism in the people also come into contact with the telephone, computer, and other new technologies. However, monks with real power are still practicing their bodies in primitive ways. For an ancient religion, Buddhism has a lot of things that people know and people do not know. Buddhism can help people to better discover the power of the human body. In addition, people need to understand the history of Buddhism and the main ideas to help them learn Buddhism.

Buddhism was brought to light about 500 BC by Siddhartha Gautama. Buddhism has not been described as a religion as such but rather as philosophy. The story of Siddhartha Gautama and how he brought Buddhism to limelight is quite moving. In this essay the thoughts of Siddhartha Gautama are explained and how the society reacted to his arguments. Generally this essay will briefly describe the achievements of Siddhartha Gautama in his quest to attain enlightenment and how that impacted the society of his time and to some extent the current society.

Buddhism was a nontheistic religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, The founder of Buddhism. He became known as “The Buddha” after experiencing a sudden realization about death and existence. In the remaining years of his life, he set out to teach

Buddhism is one of the major religions of the world. It is also very different from the other popular religions. Although it first originated in India, its founder’s unusual teachings have spread to the western world in addition to other Asian countries, including Japan, China, and Thailand. In fact, Buddhism is the “oldest and most widespread of all the world faiths” (Wilkinson 8).

The religious Buddha was originally a prince, Siddhartha Gautama, born in 623 B.C. into a regular, royal life. For years, his father “protected” him and Siddhartha was shielded from the truth and harshness of the world. When he was older, he married Yasodhara and finally went out to the real world. When he did, Siddhartha found something that disturbed him: suffering. He found war, disease, and death. Finding this suffering, he desperately wanted to stop it. Siddhartha wanted to find a way to cure the suffering he saw, because how he saw it, there was no point in life if there was so much suffering. At age 29, Siddhartha set out into the world to find enlightenment. After a 6 year journey, after meditation, starvation, and torture, Siddhartha finally received his enlightenment. He was meditating under the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya, India, and said he would not move until he gained perfect enlightenment. Devaputra Mara, demon of all demons brought an army of his kind to disturb Siddhartha during his meditation. When that did not work, he brought his three daughters to try and distract him. Siddhartha concentrated even harder that he already was, and successfully ignored the demons and girls. From this, Siddhartha had gotten so deep into his concentration, that he was able to receive the enlightenment he was looking for. The enlightenment was there is a state of suffering that had to be lived by everyone, until their death and ultimate release from the

Buddhism is a religion mainly concerned in one’s inner peace and liberation from suffering. It is originated from India reaching almost 2,500 years of history. There are approximately 367 million followers in today’s world. Gautama Buddha, also known as the young Indian prince Siddhartha Gautama or “the awakened one”, is the founder and leader of this religion. The root word Budh in Sankrit means “to wake up” and “to know. (Smith&Novak 4)” The encouragement on how Gautama gets to bring Buddhism to people comes from the “suffering” he saw outside of his palace. During his life, Gautama established the community of monks “Sangha” and taught the path to liberate from suffering “Dharma.”

For a Buddhist to be able to fully understand Buddhism it is essential to understand the story of the life of the creator and founder of this complex religion. The Buddha’s birth name was Siddhartha Gautama and he was born as an Indian prince. Gautama was well protected from the poverty and sickness throughout India and was rather surrounded by riches. However at the age of twenty nine Gautama ventured outside of the palace walls and encountered four men; a frail old man, a desperately ill man, a corpse and a Hindu ascetic; guru (Dickson J, 2004). The sacred story of the Buddha’s life, is a path for those wanting to become enlightened and reach nirvana.

Buddhism is a philosophically-religious study, that concentrates on people’s life, their bodies, and minds, and promotes harmony between them all. It is crucially different from all other world religions in the way that it puts people in the center of everything and offers to achieve the better reality, Nirvana, through meditation and acceptance of four noble truths. Vipassana meditation, as one of the branches of Buddhism, can be understood as secular, not religion. To understand Vipassana, better, we should go back to exploring what Buddhism is, how it connects body and mind, and the ways to achieve Nirvana.

As a mere alternative to Hinduism, Buddhism emerged in the fifth century to overcome the empty perception in the main religion of the time. It was started by an Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama (later known as “the Buddha”) who left his royal life to find Enlightenment. This man’s journey was the starting point of a religion that has become one of the world’s biggest and most popular.

Buddhism, which originated in India, is one of the most popular religions and has spread to vast regions throughout the world.  Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, Buddhism is founded on the fundamental belief that “life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the only way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that enables one to stop the endless sequence of births and deaths.” Throughout history, religions have managed to have a profound influence on societal norms and the individual lives of the people. Religions are prominently diffused through the use of traveling and the spreading of people into new regions. These people bring along with them new ideas, goods and cultural traditions. The teachings of Buddhism was spread

The religion of Buddhism was founded by Siddartha Guatama in northern India, or modern day Nepal, around the late 6th century. Buddhism is a nontheistic religion, meaning there’s no belief in personal gods. Siddartha, or Buddha, was the prince of a royal family and was said to have been meant for great things. When he was in his late twenties, he moved to the forest to live a spiritual life. After years of meditation, Buddha was sought out to teach what he knew. This included teaching people how to end their personal suffering by getting rid of things like ignorance and greed. Buddha taught this through the Four Noble Truths. The four truths are what can be translated to: all life is suffering, suffering is caused

Buddhism stands as a philosophy and a religion founding itself on the theory of a possible eternal soul. Until awakening is achieved, this eternal soul is locked in the vicious cycle of rebirth (Samsara). According to the Four Noble Truths preached by the Buddha, life is a perpetual suffering caused by desire and attachment, and freedom from suffering is only possible by practicing the Eightfold Path. The World is suffering in a succession of temptations and negative experiences from birth to death. Therefore Buddhism advises on searching to go beyond suffering, and only aspire to rest, nothingness, and liberation, into a final state called Nirvana. Happiness or Nirvana can eventually be achieved in a hereafter, another life, if man abandons any desire or perspective of action within his present life, in order to go past suffering.