Buddhism, one of the world’s oldest religions and one of the big 5. Clearly a dynamic, living religion with over 370 million followers world-wide, but with the characteristics, they interact in order to do this, specifically ethics and beliefs and believers.
Good morning year 11 and Mrs Flocco, my chosen Religion has been Buddhism which ethics, and beliefs and believers have both interacted in ways and have created a dynamic living religion in different ways.
The ethics of a Buddhist involve deep morale thoughts, and involve respect for all, and this can be related to other religions (I.e. Judaism), when comparing the five precepts. The five precepts are what dictates a Buddhist in their journey of life, and are as follows. Not to destroy life, not to steal, not to engage in sexual immorality, not to tell untruths and not to drink alcohol. …show more content…
Not to eat after midday, not attend distracting entertainments, not to sleep on beds, not to handle silver, gold or money and not to use cosmetics or jewellery.
The beliefs of Buddhist involve ways in which they can live a complete life with no suffering. The noble truths are important for a Buddhist to understand in order to completely comprehend why things are the way they are, and why things happen.
The noble truths are beliefs which concern, all life involves suffering, the cause of suffering is desire and attachment, desire and attachment can be overcome and the way to overcome this is to follow the eightfold path.
The eightfold path is a path that was followed by Buddha, in his own search for enlightenment and should be followed by all Buddhists.The Eightfold path is separated into eight main points, and is representative of the dharma