Gautama Buddha

It is worth noticing that it is under a Bodhi tree that Shakyamuni Buddha achieved enlightenment. Since then, nature have been considered a “refuge”, especially in Theravada themes (Kaza, 2016: 7). Buddhism seems to have an innate inclination for nature. In terms of meditation, “the Buddha urged his followers to choose natural places for meditation, free from the influence of everyday human activity” (Kaza, 2016: 8). In many…

Many believe that the original teachings of the Buddha are assimilated to any Hindu practices, which would include prayers, gods, and even Buddha has a god in all his many incarnations. When people think about Moksha, the word Moksha believes that several gods are important to the object of admiration, or even seen as a vision of the supreme God…

Manipulating the court for power, claiming to be the maitreya (future) Buddha, and surrounding herself with Buddhist advisers, Wu-huo promoted Buddhism as the official state cult as empress. Beginning in 698 through the early eighth century churches and monasteries were destroyed in Loyang and Chang-an. In 786 imperial ruling…

In the book, it states “The eight “steps” of the path actually form a program that the Buddha taught will lead us toward liberation from the impermanence and suffering of reality,” (84, Owens). The difference is that Phil was not trying to deliberately follow the Noble Eightfold path. He was only doing what was moraly right to finally move…

so they formed a movement known as “Imperial Way Buddhism.” This movement disputed that Buddhism was exceptional to all other religions and identified it with the nation and the emperor. Therefore worshiping the monarch was the same as honoring the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha, the Buddhism gods. In 1938, an association recognized…

Hinduism and Buddhism are one of the oldest beliefs that have ever been known. Both started in India around 2500 years ago, and originated in the northern part of India. Buddhism was founded in 563 B.C.E by Siddhartha Gautama. Siddhartha, who was born and raised in a wealthy family, believed that humans will suffer as long as they breath. He left his wealthy life behind and started looking for the truth of enlightenment. Buddhism is not a religion, it is a way of thinking that changes the way…

One similarity between Buddhism and Stoicism is both focus on the importance of mindfulness. In Buddhism "awareness begins with remembering what we tend to forget" (Batchelor 58). In Stoicism "...reflection... will make us appreciate how wonderful it is that we are alive and have the opportunity to fill this day with activity" (Irvine 71). Once we become mindful of what's presented to us in that moment we have a more positive outlook of life. Because, we took the time to embrace whose and what's…

CHAPTER 1 1.1 INTRODUCTION Once upon a time, Maharishi Valmiki wanted to enlighten himself on the concept of an ideal individual or rather, an ideal man. Sage Narada, who is known particularly for his devotion and love for Lord Vishnu, and his chants of ‘Narayana Narayana’, came to the rescue. He recited a tale of an individual, the perfectionist or Mr. Ideal, in modern terms, and enlightened Valmiki. After a few days, a hunter was roaming in the forest and was in pursuit of a kraunchya bird.…

The term Ghost has a Germanic origin which means Spirit or Soul. The term ‘Soul’ is complicated because various established and widely followed spiritual doctrines like Buddhism neglect the existence of soul in anybody. But it is strange that Chinese Buddhism has a concept of Hungry Ghost; quite similar to the term ‘Preta’ in Indian Buddhism and Hinduism. So Buddhism will not accept Ghost as somebody’s soul which is appearing on earthly realm to fulfill his desires indeed Ghost is used as…

Rinzai focuses on the use of the Koan. A Koan is paradoxical statement or question used as a meditative tool. Rinzai disciples concentrate on a koan to discover their own nature and become Buddhas. Practitioners must realize himself as the answer to the koan; a koan cannot be answered by knowledge or thinking. If the practitioner focuses solely on the koan, he will forget both the passing of time and the outside world. This will allow the practitioner to unexpectedly “wake up” form their former…