After reading the book and doing some online research which you can check below under sources which is where I got all my information. I have read and completely understood the story of Siddhartha also known as the Buddha the founder of Buddhism. And one of the stories from a different religion that I can compare to the story of Siddhartha Gautama Is the story of Jesus Christ. The founder of Christianity and is the most famous myth in Christian religion. I can compare both because of the way Buddha and Jesus was born. They both came from a different country and womb but they do have the similarities of how they were both born. Like Jesus, Siddhartha was believed to be a miracle child from an unknown deity. As for Jesus case, it was the …show more content…
They were both a prince and both of them had married have a family and a child. Which they both abandoned and casted away from after their eyes had been opened to the reality of the world. They both traveled seeking for teachings, truth, enlightenment, liberation and inner peace. They both practiced extreme asceticism, begged for food and last but not least they found the answers they’ve been looking for while they’re meditating. In Buddha’s case, he sat under the Bodhi tree. Starving and weakening and while meditating “he reached a state of profound understanding, called his Awakening, or Enlightenment (bodhi)". He saw suffering, aging, and death in a new way, recognizing them as an inevitable part of life, but also seeing the possibility of release”. (Molloy, 2012) This is where Siddhartha got the name Buddha means “the Awaken One” taken from a Sanskrit word “to wake up”. On the other hand, on Mahavira’s case, He spent 12 years doing hundreds of meditations and fasting Mahavira was able to attain the total freedom from the cycle of birth, life, pain, misery, and death itself. “He achieved the permanent blissful state of one’s self which is also known as the great liberation (Moksha) meaning the absolute freedom”. And right after their enlightenment and the great liberation. They both lived the rest years of their lives preaching their faith and belief to people. Furthermore, also passing down this faith and teaching it to their
Most religious leaders come to power through elections or appointment. However, the leader of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, is simply found. Buddhists believe in reincarnation, the idea that a person’s soul never dies and is instead born into a new body. Additionally, the death of one Dalai Lama spurs the quest for a young person born with that special soul. The search for the fourteenth
After looking at all the themes listed, the theme of “Picturing the Divine: Gods, Goddesses, Prophets, Buddhas, and Saints” caught my eyes. Out of this theme, I picked two incredible works of art, Meditating Buddha and Vladimir Virgin. When you first look and read the title of the theme I choose, it may cross your mind that my theme has something to do with religion. Meditating Buddha from Gandhara and Theotokos of Vladimir may come from different cultural traditions; however they both share the same general theme of picturing the divines.
Buddhism as a universalizing religion in the first millennium was influenced by many different factors during the time it spread across Asia. Buddhism both adapted and resisted some of these factors. As a result of these factors Buddhism transformed, created new forms of art and literature, and also universalized Asia. Buddhism was also able to surpass several features such as distance and differing cultures but was resisted by other influences
It is thought by many that the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, was born having this title and did not have to endure any hardships throughout his life. Despite these thoughts, Siddhartha Gautama was not born the Buddha, but had to find his own way to achieve enlightenment and become the Buddha. Before and after Siddhartha's birth, Siddhartha's mother and father knew that their son was special and had two paths in life that could lead Siddhartha into being a great king or a Buddha, a remover in the world of the veil of ignorance. In an attempt to steer Siddhartha's life to the path of the great king, his father, King Suddhodana Gautama, used health and beauty
Jesus’ life and Buddha’s life were very different. Jesus is said to be the Son of God, and was born from the Virgin Mary. He was also born a Jew, who were the people already saved by God. His father was a carpenter, and so before he left home he was a carpenter. For most of his later life Jesus
The great and well known philosopher Plato, is the man who was in love. He wasn’t in love with one particular materialistic item or person, but rather the idea of love itself. Then there is Buddha, a man who fears love. Buddha understands that life always ends and in death comes pain. The idea of love to him, only ends in pain and suffering. As expressed in The Gospel of Buddha, Buddha’s eyes were opened to world and when they were opened “he saw the pains of pleasure and inevitable certainty of death that hovers over every being.” He isn’t like Plato, who believes to life, is to live with happiness and to have a happy after life, requires love in the human life or physical world. He also believed that love could carry a man threw tremendous conquest. In Plato’s Plato-Symposium, he expressed that if government consisted of lovers, even in unfavorable odds “they would overcome the world.” These two lifestyles however, aren’t so different. They both revolve around the same concept and that is, life is filled with pain and suffering. The ways they avoid or overcome it, is the only difference. Plato is like the man at the funeral who says, “we had a good life together and I’m glad we got to be together.” Then there is Buddha and he would be the man saying, “her life was too short.”
In the most current presidential elections, popular demographic voting groups are race, religion, and gender. Analyzing the election exit polls in the year 2000, 2008, and 2016, the three demographic voting groups generally voted for the same party. Specific groups look for specific things in a candidate. This can be things such as physiological factors like their political viewpoint or current events, and sociological factors such as gender or religion. In addition, population of a certain group can help determine the expected winning party.
Legend says the Buddha was originally born Siddhartha Gautama and his father was a prince of the Shakya tribe. The legend is that he was conceived after his mother’s “miraculous” encounter with a white elephant and his mother passed on a week after his birth. His father took great measures to prepare Siddhartha to succeed him. Raised in a life of luxury and affluence, things changed when he visited a nearby town and saw suffering first hand. According to the legend, Siddhartha at the age of 29 after a moment of realization decided to leave home (The Great Going Forth). He left the luxury of home taking nothing with him and set forth into the world to seek
participants in their sample (persuasive argument). Therefore, if an attitudinal changed resulted from this manipulation it would be due to reasoning, not social approval, because the participants were not given any information about what the norm for the group was.
Answer: The key moment is the last discussion between Siddhartha and Govinda. For Siddhartha, finding
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.
Siddharta Gautama was twenty-nine years old when he abandoned his family to search for a means to bring to an end his and other’s suffering after studying meditation for many years. At age thirty-five, Siddharta Gautama sat down under the shade of a fig tree to meditate and he determined to meditate until he reached enlightenment. After seven weeks he received the Great Enlightenment which he referred to as the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path. Henceforth he became known as the Buddha.
The lives and teachings of Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), and Jesus Christ each are similar to one another but each do have their own differences. The difference includes their teachings and beliefs. The similarity consist of each of them being associated with a certain religion and each being worship by a group of individuals associated with the religion. Jesus Christ is a religious leader whose teachings are in the Bible, in which is a central figure for Christians. Buddha is a spiritual leader whose life is the foundation of Buddhist religion. Muhammad is the founder of Islam and is believed to be the proclaimer of the Qur’an and is the foundation of Muslim religion.
I am pleased to be here today on behalf of the Americans for Common Cents to discuss some aspects of proposed legislation, such as S. 814, which would significantly change the U.S. coinage system. In particular, I would like to review those aspects of an April 1990 Gallup survey that bear on the questions before you today and summarize a study I have completed on the economic effects of eliminating the penny and instituting a price rounding scheme for cash transactions.
Buddhism arose in northern India in the 6th century BCE. The historical founder of Buddhism, Siddharta Gautama (c.560-480 BCE) was born in a village called Lumbini into a warrior tribe called the Sakyas (from where he derived the title Sakyamuni, meaning 'Sage of the Sakyas'). According to tradition Gautama's father, Suddhodana was the king of a small principality based on the town of Kapilavastu. His mother, Queen Maya, died seven days after Gautama's birth. Following the death of Maya, Suddhodana married Maya's sister, Prajapati, by whom Gautama was brought up in great luxury and sheltered from the harshness of the outside world.