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Buddha and His Teachings

            
             Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama. Gautama was born around 566 where he began life as a Kshatriya Prince. When he was young he lived a more sheltered life; not seeing the sickness and poverty he was surrounded by outside of the kingdom. When his charioteer drove him around one day he saw, for the first time, illness, old age, and death. Siddhartha was then determined to find out why these people were suffering and how it could be stopped. He left his wife and young son when he was 19 to travel all through-out India. He went about for seven years looking for the truth but did not find it. While meditating # under a tree one day he got a sudden burst of knowledge which he believed was the answer he was looking for all along. Gautama began to share his ideas with others. While dressed in a yellow robe he preached his message to people; his followers. This is how he earned the nicknames "The Buddha" and "The Enlightened One" by some of his close friends. .
             The Buddha's first Sermon #was said to be performed in Isipatana, in front of twenty-five followers, in the 500s BC. At the very spot in which this occurred a big monastery was built. One thousand-five hundred monks lived here. The spot is now empty. The Buddha had started India's second, behind Hinduism. The Buddha is now known as one of the most important religious leaders in the world. He developed many teaching to go by.
             To attain Nirvana # The Buddha developed The Four Noble Truths. These truths consisted of : #1)Suffering Exists #2) Suffering arises # from attachment to desires. #3) Suffering ceases # when attachment to desire ceases. #4) Freedom from suffering is possible by practicing The Eightfold Path.#.
             The Eightfold Path that is mentioned in the Four Noble Truths are : #1) Right View. #2) Right Thought. #3) Right Speech. #4) Right Action. #5) Right Livelihood. # #6) Right Effort #7) Right Mindfulness #8) Right Contemplation.# #These are the things that the Buddha encouraged his followers to do.


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1. Buddha

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2. Discuss The Significance Of The Buddha's Life

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3. Buddha

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4. The Life and Teachings of the Buddha

In his stead, lotus flowers sprouted beneath his feet and in the fourth week, he sat in a crystalline house of divine creation where he contemplated "the teachings that would later become the Abhidharma collection. ... The five ascetics gathered around the Buddha as he relayed his message in a precise and perfect manner. The effectiveness of his teaching and profound truth in his message would endow the ascetics with the knowledge to "go forth" and spread word throughout the land which would attribute to a growth in the following. The Buddha would continue to quietly and earnestly relay his d...

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5. Teachings Of Jesus And Buddha Compared

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6. Budhism

Buddha only agreed to teach his path to enlightenment when the king of gods, Brahma, convinced Buddha by suggesting to him that some of us have only a little dirt on our eyes and could awaken if we heard his story. " In a deer park he preached his first sermon to the group of five ascetics his first started his practices with; this sermon is called "setting the wheel of the teaching in motion"" (Boeree 3). ... All Buddhists have faith in three major areas of Buddhism: Buddha himself, his teachings, called the dharma, and the religious community he founded, called the Sangha. Buddhist bel...

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7. Upaya

The Lotus Sutra text is considered to be the teachings of the Buddha just before he passed away. ... Nonetheless, his translation did not have a strong impact on the understanding of the essential teachings brought forth in the Lotus Sutra (Pye, 38). ... Buddha used skilful means as a teaching tool because he understood that his message was not something that most people could understand. One story that proves this point concerns the first teaching that Buddha gave to his followers. The story goes that Buddha gave the complete Dharma teaching however no one was able to grasp what he was sayi...

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8. Christianity and Buddhism

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9. The main problem in Buddhism and its solution

The noble truth that there is a way to the end of suffering The Buddha not only makes suffering and release from suffering the focus of his teaching, but he deals with the problem of suffering in a way that reveals mindfulness. ... To eliminate this gap between the beginning and end points of his teaching, the Buddha formed a clear, precise, practical path made up of eight factors. ... The Buddha believed that a person must give up all wants, desires, and attachments in order to reach nirvana, but Buddha, himself, was guilty of want until the day he died. The Buddha was a teacher who wa...

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