Christianity, the most common religion in the western hemisphere, says that people need to follow the Bible. While one of the teachings in the Bible is of being a good person, which is the same for many Buddhists, but Buddhism is frequently about freeing oneself from religious dogma, such as belief in a perfect, infinite, all-powerful God. In researching Buddhism, I noticed that the beliefs are very similar to my own personal ones. People receive peace when they reach enlightenment, which is defined by Emanuel Kant as maturity, or independence. I believe that after death, people don’t need their bodies anymore, so cadavers should be either used for organ transplants or, as Buddhists do in Tibet, fed to animals. The belief that people don’t need their bodies after they die seems to be relatively well accepted, but people, like me, don’t realize that this is what Buddhism …show more content…
Buddha, a man who was believed to have reached enlightenment, decided not to go immediately to nirvana so that he could teach the process of finding enlightenment to others. If enlightenment is not achieved, and the person can’t reach nirvana, they are reborn in a very painful process; Buddhists believe that birth and death are very painful. In Tibet, a sky burial is preformed, while in many other parts of Asia, the body is buried. Buddhist beliefs, particularly Tibetan ones, are very different from Western beliefs due to the lack of a god and the way in which the body is