Aim: How did Buddhism develop in India?

Do Now: Matching

a. Mt. Everest good or bad deeds that follow you

b. Himalaya Mountains largest mountain in the world

c. Hinduism strict class system in India

d. Caste System a rebirth of your soul

e. Reincarnation natural border b/w India and China

f. Karma polytheistic religion in India

a

b

c

d

e

f

HW: Write a paragraph explaining your opinion on Buddha’s idea that pain is caused by desire. Do you agree? Disagree? Explain.

Images of Buddha

Siddhartha Gautama• Siddhārtha Gautama was a

______________ teacher in the northern region of the __________________who founded _______________. He is generally seen by Buddhists as the ________________ Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are uncertain: most early 20th-century ______________date his lifetime from  563 BCE to 483 BCE;

Buddhism Indian subcontinent

Spiritual

supreme

historians

Birth place of Buddha

Continued…

• Various collections of teachings attributed to Gautama were passed down by _________________and first committed to ___________________ about 400 years later. Early Western scholarship tended to in large part accept the biography of the Buddha presented in the Buddhist scriptures, but "scholars are increasingly reluctant to make unqualified claims about the historical ____________of the Buddha's life and teachings.”

Oral traditionwriting

Facts

Continued….• The Noble Eightfold Path is one of the principal

______________of Buddha who described it as the way leading to the cessation of suffering and the achievement of ______________. It is used in Catholic practice as a technique to develop insight into the nature of things and to eradicate _______, hatred, and delusion. The Noble Eightfold Path is the fourth of the Buddha's ____________________the first element of the Noble Eightfold Path is, in turn, an understanding of the Four Noble Truths.

teachings

Self-awakening

greed

Four Nobel Truths

The Four Nobel Truths

The Eightfold Path

Continued….• All eight elements of the Path begin with the

word "right". These denote completion, _______________, and coherence, and can also suggest the senses of "perfect" or "ideal".

• In Buddhist _____________ the Noble Eightfold Path is often represented by means of the __________________, whose eight spokes represent the eight elements of the path.

togetherness

Dharma wheel

symbolism

Prayer Wheels

Buddhist Monks

Buddhism in Action

In Protest• Buddhist monk setting

himself on fire in protest of Vietnam War.