Buddism
- Christianity And Buddism - Christianity And Buddism This paper is a comparison between two very different religions....
Submitted by ttreezy on 06/30/2008 05:21 PM
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Buddism
During my research on religion, I have chosen Buddhism to compare it with my own Christian beliefs. In my family, my mom's original religion (before she married my father) was Buddhism and my father has always been Catholic. Although I believe totally in God, I think this research on Buddhism would give me an opportunity to learn what my mother's old religion was about.
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy founded in India c.525 BC by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Buddha. There are 300 million Buddhists worldwide and it is one of the great world religions. Buddhism is so large that it is divided into two main schools: the Theravada or Hinayana in Sri Lanka, Southeast Asia, Mahayana in China, Mongolia, Korea, and Japan. The third school, the Vajrayana, has a long tradition in Tibet and Japan. Buddhism has largely disappeared from its country of origin, India; except for the presence they're of many refugees from the Tibet region of China and a small number of converts from the lower castes of Hinduism.
The main doctrines of early Buddhism, which remain common to all Buddhism, include the "four noble truths": existence is suffering (dukhka); suffering has a cause, namely craving and attachment (trisha); there is a cessation of suffering, which is nirvana; and there is a path to the cessation of suffering, the "eightfold path" of right views, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration. It is said that Buddhism characteristically describes reality in terms of process and relation rather than entity or substance. There are five aggregates in Buddhism. The first, rupa, refers to material existence; the following four, sensations (vedana), perceptions (samjna), psychic constructs (samskara), and consciousness (vijana), refer to psychological processes. According to the encyclopedia of Britannica, the central Buddhist teaching of non-self (anatman) asserts...
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