1. Buddhism

2. Buddhism
 Founder: Siddhartha Gautama
 Son of a Indian warrior-king
 Gautama renounced his rich life
and became a monk in hopes of
comprehending truth
 Moment of truth: meditating
under a tree where he had an
experience where he
understood how to be free from
suffering and achieve salvation.
 After this, he was know as
Buddha
 Buddha= “Enlightened One”
 Buddha spent the rest of his life
traveling around India and
teaching others

3. 4 Noble Truths
There is suffering
Suffering has an origin
Suffering can cease
There is a path out of suffering

4. Desires
 To a Buddhist, desire can only bring suffering
 Desires are worldly pleasures such as material
goods and craving immortality

5. Question 1
 Why might the Buddhists believe
that desires lead to suffering?

6. Eight Fold Path

7. Question 2
 Choose one step in the Eight Fold
Path and think about how it might
help relieve desires and therefore
suffering.

8.  Buddhists believe in
reincarnation
 If you do good in this world you
will be reincarnated into a higher
realm
 Separated from Hinduism
 Over 200 different sects
 No personal God or divine
being—Buddhists are not
atheistic but believe in an
impersonal force
 376 million Buddhists worldwide
 Dominant religion in China,
Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia
 Doesn’t believe in the Caste
System

9. Question 3
Think about some things you
think that might attract
followers to Buddhism.