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Buddhism

Buddhism. Ms. Sheets University High School. The Life of Siddhartha Gautama. Born an Indian prince. Raised in luxury and protected from outside world. Left palace and sees the “Four Passing Sights.” Old Age, Sickness, Sorrow and Death.

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Buddhism

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  1. Buddhism Ms. Sheets University High School

  2. The Life of Siddhartha Gautama • Born an Indian prince. • Raised in luxury and protected from outside world. • Left palace and sees the “Four Passing Sights.” • Old Age, Sickness, Sorrow and Death. • Searches for the truth about human existence; known as the “Great Going Forth”

  3. Gautama, cont… • Spent 6 years practicing asceticism, but is no closer to attaining knowledge or wisdom. • Meditates and does not stop until he achieved enlightenment. • The First Watch: Saw his own previous lifetimes as a continuous journey of suffering. • The Second Watch: Acquired the “divine eye” with which he was able to see all deaths and rebirths of living things. • The Third Watch: Gautama discovered the Four Noble Truths.

  4. The Four Noble Truths • To live is to suffer. • To suffer is caused by desire. • Suffering can be brought to an end. • The solution is the Noble Eightfold Path.

  5. The Noble Eightfold Path • Right Belief: learn Buddha’s teachings. • Right Thought: abandon evil attitudes; nurture good attitudes. • Right Speech: Avoid gossip, lying, and abusive talk. • Right Conduct: obey the Five Precepts. • Right Livelihood: Abstain from occupations that harm. • Right Effort: Maintain mental alertness to control the senses. • Right Mindfulness: pay careful attention and be conscious. • Right Meditation: do so to reach a point of perfect tranquility (nirvana).

  6. Five Precepts • Buddhist moral standards that maintain Buddhists abstain from: • Taking the life of any human being. • Taking anything that is not given. • Sexual misconduct and other forms of overindulgence. • Bad speech. • Taking intoxicants.

  7. Buddha • By discovering the Four Noble Truths, Gautama attained enlightenment and won salvation. • Gautama became the Buddha, the Enlightened/ Awakened One. • In 483 BCE, he died at the age of eighty, passing forever into nirvana.

  8. Important Terms • Nirvana: the goal of Buddhism; the extinction of desire and any sense of individual selfhood, resulting in liberation from samsara (the wheel of rebirth) • Karma:generally has the same meaning as the Hindu version; moral law of cause and effect.

  9. Divisions in Buddhism • Theravada • Oldest strain of Buddhism and closest to original teachings • Mahayana • Emphasis on Buddha as a savior increases, and believes in the possibility of all living beings to be liberated from suffering • Vajrayana • Practice rituals, mediations and harness magical energies; Dalai Lama

  10. The Dalai Lama • Spiritual leader of the Vajrayana Buddhists. • Chosen through a line of rebirth, as opposed to a line of succession. • Believed to be the reincarnation of the Buddha of Compassion, who has chosen to continually reincarnate to serve his people, rather than pass to nirvana.

  11. Hinduism and Buddhism

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