The document discusses several key branches and concepts in Buddhism. It describes Vajrayana Buddhism as originating in China and emphasizing spiritual attainment through a teacher. Zen Buddhism is defined as focusing on meditation and believing the Buddha resides in every heart. The Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path are presented as core Buddhist teachings on suffering and the path to enlightenment.
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Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Gautama Buddha, in ancient India around the 5th century BCE. Siddhartha was born into a wealthy family but renounced his privileged life in search of spiritual truth. After years of meditation and self-discovery, he attained enlightenment under a Bodhi tree and began teaching his insights to others.
This PPT contains all about Buddhist Education. That is about Mahatma Buddha, Buddhist scriptures, noble truths, Pubjja and Upsampada ceremony and famous Buddhist universities.
History of Buddhism Origin, Teachings & Practices | in 2023MissionAryavart
Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Gautama Buddha, in ancient India around the 5th century BCE. Siddhartha was born into a wealthy family but renounced his privileged life in search of spiritual truth. After years of meditation and self-discovery, he attained enlightenment under a Bodhi tree and began teaching his insights to others.
Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, was a spiritual leader and teacher who lived in ancient India. He is the founder of Buddhism, one of the major religions of the world.
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Buddhism
What is Buddhism?
Buddhism is the religion of over 520 million people, primarily concentrated in East and Southeast Asia.
The religion began in the fifth century BCE in India and Nepal, growing out of the teachings of Gautama Buddha.
Buddhism does not center on a supreme deity. Many of its varieties do not imagine anything supernatural at all.
Is Buddhism a “religion”?
“Everything that arises also passes away, so strive for what has not arisen.”
At the heart of Buddhism are three “jewels”:
1. The Buddha
2. The Dharma (teachings)
3. the Sangha (community)
The First Gem: The Buddha
Around 500 BCE, a loosely defined kind of ascetic spirituality was flourishing in northern India.
Landowning castes – Brahmins and Kshatriyas
Ascetics (Sramana) rejected Brahmin practices of wealth accumulation and animal sacrifice.
The birth of Shakyamuni
Shakyamuni / Siddhartha was born between 488 and 624 BCE – the traditions differ.
Tradition says that his enlightenment was nearly perfected across hundreds of previous lives. In our world, he was born to a ruling family in southern Nepal.
His birth is accompanied by signs and omens. It takes place in a park – he is immaculately conceived.
The Four Sights
Siddhartha sees:
1. A sick man
2. A suffering old man
3. A dead man
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4. An ascetic who is serene and detached from the world.
Siddhartha admires this man and gives away his princely possessions. He travels and masters yoga.
Siddhartha embarks on a path of extreme asceticism, starving and thirsty.
This does not give him the enlightenment he seeks.
Disillusioned with asceticism, Siddhartha moves to Bodh Gaya and re-enters the comforts of the world.
He begins to comfortably meditate under a large fig tree.
Just before dusk, Siddhartha resists the assaults of greed, boredom, and desire, and then fear and anger.
He meditates to move deeper into consciousness, rather than unconsciousness.
Enlightenment
Just before dawn, Siddartha achieves enlightenment.
“I had direct knowledge. Birth is exhausted, the Holy Life has been lived, what was to be done is done, there is no more of this to come.”
He has achieved nirvana. Nirvana means
Being beyond desires
Feeling transcendent happiness
He sets out to spread his message across India.
The wheel of Dharma turns again
He explains his doctrine to his former companions.
This explanation is called the first discourse or sutra, called “Instruction on the Middle Path”.
Buddha explains that enlightenment only came when he
1. renounced the luxury of his princely origins
2. renounced the extreme asceticism of his early spiritual seeking.
Progress only comes through moderation, the “Middle Path”.
Parinirvana
After 45 years of preaching, Buddha falls ill after eating a bad meal his host had served him.
As he weakens, he instructs his disciples not to follow a human successor, but only the dharma.
He reaches parinirvana – the final end of the cycle of deat ...
3. A route to attain Enlightenment, just like
Theravada and Mahayana.
It believes that nothing is eternal.
Itoriginated in China during the 6th
century.
Vajrayana Buddhism-
The “Diamond Vehicle”
4. Began in China and carried to Japan.
Itsemphasis is on learning about ways to
reach the ultimate goal of fulfillment
It requires a person to be trained by a
teacher about the learning of attaining the
inner peace and knowledge.
Zen Buddhism- Dhyana
(meditation)
5. Vajrayana Buddhism emphasize on
practically doing what is good.
3 paths that lead to either complete or partial
state or nirvana.
It is a very ancient branch of Buddhism.
It requires its followers to physically practice
all the good deeds to satisfy their hearts.
Teachings
6. Zen Buddhism is an ancient thought
according to which the Buddha lives and
resides in every heart.
Itrequires its followers to gain knowledge
and understanding of the fact that he/she
will follow Buddha to reach enlightenment.
Teachings
7. Zen Buddhism followers have to be
familiarized with the scripture and sutras.
Zen scholars from the beginning of its
origin have added their teachings to the
scripture.
Scripture – Zen Buddhism
8. It contains Tantric scripture and is difficult
to learn due to its length.
There is no clear evidence about the
authencity of this scripture.
Scripture- Vajrayana Buddhism
9. The Noble Truth of Suffering
The Noble Truth of The Arising of Suffering
The Noble Truth of the Cessation of
Sufferings
The Noble Truth of the Path leading to the
Cessation of Suffering
The Four Noble truths
The name suggests strength, clarity, wisdom, and flashes of light, all is associated with the enlightened awareness that is seeks to transmit. It is the 3 rd branch of Buddhism because of its complexity and unique elements.
Zen means understanding ones true self. Zen takes its name from the 7 th step in the noble 8fold path. Emphasizes on enlightenment and direct insight into the Buddhist teachings.
1 st path- path of an listener who aims to become a saintly Arhat (person who extinguished all external impurities and desire. Their goal does not include the benefit of others. 2 nd path Solitary Buddha. Who arrives in a world where Buddha does not exist. 3rd is Bodhisattva. Someone who wished to attain Buddhahood for enlightment in order to benefit others. One must give up all activities that harm other beings, whether these acts are physical, verbal, or mental. In other words, one should work towards happiness of forms of life and elimination of suffering.
The essence of Zen is attempting to understand the meaning of life directly, without being misled by logical thought or language.
1.According to the law of nature… only sorrow, pain, grief and despair are left in the end. 2. cravings and ignorance of the law of nature are the condition of origin of individual sufferings. 3. complete fading away and extinction of this three fold craving, forsaking it, and giving it up, the liberation and detachment from it. A person can only realize Nirvana with the extinction of the cravings. 4. It is the 8fold path. It avoids the two extremes of sensual pleasure and self-mortification that leads to the cessation of sufferings.
Vajrayana and Zen Buddhism both follows the Noble eightfold Path. They follow these paths in hopes to reach enlightenment.
