Buddhism Vs. Christianity Essay

Buddhism is a religion that focuses on spiritual development and achieving a state void of suffering, known as Nirvana. It was founded in India about 2,500 years ago by Siddhartha Gautama, a Nepali prince. Gautama lived a sheltered life, and was thus oblivious to the suffering around him. However, hardships were revealed to him when he encountered an elderly, frail man, a depressed man suffering from disease, and a family grieving the death of a loved one. Once Gautama was exposed to the poor…

Today, everywhere we look we see some form of suffering. What is suffering? According to the Oxford dictionary, suffering is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. (Oxford Dictionary ) For example, many people don’t like the way they look, others don’t like the route that their life is taking, and some aren’t satisfied with their lives. Us humans, constantly search and search for different things to make us happy. However, we may think that we have found some form or another of…

Observational Experience: Inside a Zen Buddhism Temple For my observational experience I went to the Great Heartland Buddhist Temple of Toledo in Holland, Ohio. This experience was very eye opening, but I felt so at peace afterwards. I learned that Buddhism itself is more broad than what I could have imagined after learning about it in class. There are many different forms of Buddhism, but this particular temple focused on Zen. Zen Buddhism focuses on the meditation aspects. They strive…

Comparative on Hinduism and Buddhism Suffering is the state of undergoing pain, distress, or hardship. There are two religions that use this as a basis for their religion, Hinduism, and Buddhism These two religions started in India and are relatively similar. But what are the differences, and similarities of these two religions? Until deciding how similar of different these two religions are, one has to know the facts of both. First off Hinduism is a term made up from outsiders then was later…

Introduction Meditation is a practice that continues to flourish in the religion of Buddhism throughout the countries in South and Southeast Asia. It has been a prominent practice for thousands of years and many people who practice meditation do it as a form of discipline. Self-discipline is a main focus point in Buddhism since it is one of the methods in seeking enlightenment. Meditation was a practice that the Buddha himself once indulged in, in order to find enlightenment. In the Buddhist…

Long ago both Hinduism and Buddhism originated and evolved on Indian soil. They share a long history together intermingled in one way or another. Through the years each religion has had a significant influence on the other, and they have also developed some major differences as well. The Buddha was born into a Hindu family and the Hindu tradition eventually accepted the Buddha as an incarnation of Vishnu (Voorst 114). Buddhism became widely accepted in India due to teachings of the Buddha that…

Buddhist Ideology and Death Rituals in China Buddhism is the fourth largest religion in the world and includes extensive and internally diverse traditions with two main branches. This paper will focus on the Mahayana branch of Buddhism commonly practiced in China. Buddhist views on death and specific death rituals of Mahayana Buddhism in China will be explored. Two individual sects of Zen Buddhism and Pure Land Buddhism native to China will be offered to contrast different paths to…

The Three Great Eastern Religions The three great eastern religions are, Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism that developed at different times, but their places of origin are relatively close geographically. There are some similarities, but also many differences between the three. Hinduism is reported to be the world’s oldest religion while Sikhism is one of the newest. Buddhism and Hinduism believe in reincarnation. Buddhists do not believe in a god while Hindus believe in many gods all based on…

Portrait of a Man in Habit I depicts Shaowanasai in his Buddhist monk garment, holding on to a peculiarly placed pink child-like, “girlish” handkerchief, with his face fully made up with feminine make up. The portrait is a stark presentation of his true reality, as a practicing Buddhist and a gay man. This image practices Cotton’s description of “Deadpan Aesthetics” in portraits, which is one of the most prominent and frequently used styles of photography. The deadpan aesthetics describes as a…

2.2. Pallava Grantha Script The Pallava rule in the Tamil country bought with it greater influence of Sanskrit culture. They devised a script around the 5th century CE for writing Sanskrit in the Tamil country. The need arouse because the tamil script does not have glyphs to represent a number of Sanskrit letters. The new script came to be known as the Pallava Grantha. Brahmi is the origin for Pallava Grantha, like all other scripts for native Indian languages. There is a lot of closeness of…