Buddhism Influence

Buddha is the main founder of Buddhism; an awakening sage. According to most biographical narratives, the legends that sprouted around Buddha conception, birth, life and death are extraordinary. Although Buddha whole existence can be seen as a phenomenon, I chose to write this reflection paper on Buddha conception and birth.

Buddha is one of the wisest religious leaders in the world. He has forever influenced the world with his wise outlook on the world. He has shown people that being a kind person is more important than riches he or she inherits. Buddha’s number one goal was to put a stop to suffering (Thero). Buddha hated seeing others struggle and wanted to see them live a happy life and encourage everyone to be kind to everyone around you. Because of his simplicity, patience, and compassion, Buddha taught many people that wealth doesn’t measure how great of a person he or she is.

Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of Buddhism. He was born in Lumbini, Nepal. When the king Shuddodana asked Asita, a well-known sooth-sayer about his son. She told the king that he would either become a great king, even an emperor, or he could become a great sage and savior of humanity. The king wanted Gautama to become a king like himself, and was determined to keep Gautama from seeing anything that might result in him taking up the religious life. He was not allowed to see the elderly, the sickly, the dead, or anyone who had devoted themselves to spiritual practices. Only beauty and health surrounded Siddhartha. As Siddhartha continued living in the luxury of his palaces, he grew increasing restless and curious about the world beyond the palace walls. He finally demanded that he be permitted to see his people and his lands. The king carefully arranged that Siddhartha should still not see the kind of suffering that he feared would lead him to a religious life, and announced that only young and healthy people should greet the prince. He got to see a couple of old men who had accidentally wandered near the place. He

The Buddhist monk sat cross-legged on a mountain top, inhaling and  exhaling while focusing his mind. He was trying to reach the state of enlightenment discovered by the religion's founder Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha's early life greatly affected and influenced the beliefs and values found in the Four Noble Truths, the Eightfold path, and the Dhammapada. Precisely his early life in the palace affected the second noble truth,  his four journeys impacted the first noble truth, and his experiences influenced the Dhammapada.

In the first century China, a new ideology called Buddhism, originally in India, was introduced during the Han Dynasty through merchants from South and Central Asia. However Buddhism started becoming more popular after the fall of the Han Dynasty. Eventually leading into the Tang Dynasty, which started in 618 and ended in 907, Buddhism started to experience some problems. It had to compete with well-established philosophical and religious traditions such as Confucianism and Taoism. The influence Confucianism had on the government in China during the Tang proved to detrimental to the position of Buddhists. Nevertheless, Buddhism was already embedded into China and attracted followers. In China, the spread of Buddhism had evoked both positive

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 was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, a prince made by King Siddhodana who was the leader of a large clan called the Shakya. At an early age Siddhartha lost his mother. Siddhartha Gautama was raised by his father; he was raised privileged and studied martial arts. Most of his life was said to be sheltered from knowledge of religion and human suffering.1 At the age of twenty-nine, Siddhartha Gautama set out to the world to only to be confronted by the harsh reality of the inevitable suffering of life. Siddhartha suddenly discovered the pain of illness, the sorrow of death, and the degradation caused by old age in the lives of ordinary people.2 Siddhartha then decided to devote his life for the cure to human suffering. For six years Siddhartha sought out various religious teachers and submitted himself to rigorous practices of meditation. Siddhartha “Buddha” finally reached enlightenment after a lengthy period of meditation and harassment from

Throughout time, Buddhism has had a significant influence within Indian art. The evolution of Buddhism can be examined through the use of Buddha in Indian Art. Through detailed research and analysis, the influence Buddha portrayed can be examined through the various pieces of Indian art. Within some of the earliest works of Indian art, Buddha was not shown in the human form. Much of his appearance was shown through a pair of footprints or an empty seat. (Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History) Within the first century AD, Buddha was shown to truly conquer the artistic scene of Indian art. (Heilbrunn Timeline

Buddha was a prince in India, who was expected to be a great teacher. Knowing this fact his parents locked him inside a palace of young rich people. The Buddha never saw death, or aging ever until he came out of the gates to see the world. He saw death, elderly, starvation, poverty, and went into a deep depression. After meditating and thinking Siddhartha became the enlightened one, and went by Buddha for the rest of his life. His teaching basically thought people about being honest, and respectful towards one another, and overall just being good people. His legacy still lives on, and Buddhism is a popular belief all around the world. His teachings helped India get out of their poverty stricken state, and back on

In the same era that Christianity was scattering out of its original place in ancient Israel, Buddhism was beginning to reach beyond India. Buddhism came to East, Southeast, and Central Asia with missionaries and merchants along the Silk Road, by sea from Sri Lanka and India, and likewise through Tibet. Buddhism was molded by its connection with cultures in the different parts into which it spread, leading to numerous distinct forms.

There are various Buddhist teachings, each having significant impacts on and affecting the Buddhist adherents differently. The ultimate goal of Buddhist adherents to the reach Nirvana, they achieve this through ridding themselves of desire and Dukkha(suffering). The main Buddhist teachings are the five precepts, the four noble truths and the eightfold path. These act as a guideline for the Buddhist adherents on their path towards reaching enlightenment by helping deal with modern issues such as bioethics. Similarly, many influential figures such as the Dalai Lama, Buddhaghosa and Dogen teach as a role model for Buddhist adherents to follow and guide them closer towards nirvana. Through both Buddhaghosa and Dogen’s statement, they illustrate

There are various ideas on the issues pertaining to ethics such as character ethics which is a philosophy that gives a description of success as being based on principles of effective living like humility, integrity, patience, temperance, simplicity, and justice.

Buddha: Born Siddhartha Gautama, Siddhartha was born the son of a prince of the Shakya tribe. At his naming priest foretold that his life could go into two directions: either following his father footsteps becoming great king or he would become great spiritual leader a “teacher”. At the age of twenty-nine he disobeyed his father and left the royal ground by visiting nearby town where he had witnessed sickness, old age, and death. Legend tells how one night he took a

The first symbol of Buddhism is the Buddha. The Buddha, moreover, known as the "Enlightened One" or the “Awakened One.” Buddha conveys the philosophy of self-perfection - its essentials are contained in the most important and simple teachings, Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path are essential to understanding the religion of Buddhism. The Four Noble Truths affirm that life is full of suffering; it is caused by craving. Suffering will stop only when craving ends, and it can be achieved by following the Noble Eightfold Path. Generally, the Path consists of right understanding, right purpose, right speech, right action, right way to earn a living, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. Before earning the name Buddha, he was a prince named Siddhartha Gautama, who lived in India. He walked away from his royal life to search for spiritual peace. When he walked away to his journeys, his life changed—he learned many great truths. He could’ve selfishly escaped into enlightenment, but instead, he shared and taught others the paths that he had found. That began to make him more likely to a Buddha. Buddhism taught people to reach the enlightenment, learn how to be happy, and acquire knowledge of deep truth, which also what Buddha had.

Buddhism’s founder was a man named Siddhartha Gautama, meaning “one who realized his goal.” Buddhists believe that when Siddhartha’s mother, Maha, was conceived she had a dream involving a white elephant carrying a lotus flower. She interpreted the dream to mean that her son would grow up to become a great spiritual leader. Just a week after Siddhartha was born, his mother died. Upon her death, he lived with his wealthy aunt and his father on a large estate. As Siddhartha grew up, his father kept him away from all suffering and anguish of the world. Unlike many of his peers, he was well educated and free from the world’s sorrows.