BUDDHISM

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BY YEOMIN JEON

Introduction

Have you ever heard about a Prince who became a

religious teacher, and taught people? Today, there are

350-550 million Buddhists worshipping Buddha in the

temple. There are several information of Buddhism, such

as the founder, teachings and rules about the Buddhism.

BUDDHISM

Did you know that Buddha was born in to a Hindu family? Many people think Buddhism is from East Asia, but Buddhism is from India. The Prince Siddhartha was the founder of the Buddhism, while he had a trip outside of the palace.

Buddhism began in the northern part of India. It started when King Suddhodana and his wife, Queen Maya.

Before the baby was born, the queen had a dream that she was carried over the Himalayas to a silver mountain and set on a sil-ver couch. Then, an elephant with six tusks walked around her, and suddenly struck her in the right side. After that, the king and queen went to the Hindu priests, to explain her dream. They told that their child will have two paths, one to be the ruler of the country, or if he sees people suffering, he will give up his royal life and become “Buddha” or the open-minded one. When the baby was born he could already walk, and about 2 years later proclaimed: “I am the leader of this world and teacher of the world.” The name given to him was Siddhartha.

 

This map is the how the Buddhism spread out.

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PART 1

Beginning of Buddhism

He taught eightfold path to people.

1.     Right understanding: Develop the understanding 4 no-ble truths.

2.    Right purpose: Live life selflessness. 

3.    Right speech: Be truthful when you are saying.

4.    Right action: Be honest.

5.    Right way to earn a living: Do not work job that dam ages other people.

6.    Right effort: Advance good actions.

7.    Right mindfulness: Be aware of.

8.    Right concentration: Concentrate your mind with such practices as thought.

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Many people think each religion has a holy book, but in Bud-dhism there is a teaching book instead of holy book. Bud-dhism is a really not religion.              

In Buddhism, there are teaching book, there are no such as holy book in Buddhism. The teaching book is called Tripi-taka or Tipitaka. The word Tipitaka means 3baskets. Accord-ing to Buddhism source, the Tipitaka was written down after 50 BC in place named Sanskrit.

There are divided into 3 sections. Many of Tripitaka  have not yet been translated into the English language.  In the Tripitaka, there is all the complete teaching of Buddha. And there are legends about Buddha. 

There are many celebrations and festivals related to Bud-dhism. One of the celebrations is Buddha’s day; it’s called the “Vesak”. Vesak is the major Buddhist festival of the year. The Buddhist celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on the one day.

  

How do Buddhist worshippers show they are faithful? There are different types to worship in Buddhism. One of the types of worship is praying. When he or she praise, they will be ask-ing or making deals. Then the god will hear the praise, and answer the prayers. And Buddhist praise in the temple.             

Tibetan Buddhists believe that saying the mantra (pray-er), Om Mani Padme Hum, out loud or silently to oneself, in-

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PART 2

 

vokes the powerful benevolent attention and blessings of Chenrezig, the embodiment of compassion. Spinning the written form of the mantra around in a Mani wheel (or prayer wheel) is also believed to give the same benefit as say-ing the mantra, and Mani wheels.

What are the main beliefs of the religion?  The main beliefs of the religion are four noble truths. Four noble truths are the truths that the Buddha discovered under the Bodhi tree are the basic principles of Buddhism.

1. Suffering is present in all things, and nothing lasts forever.  2. Suffering is caused by cravings (needs and wants).  3. The way to end suffering is to give up all cravings.  4. The way to give up all cravings is to live life according to the Eightfold Path.

Is it shared by another religion? Buddhism was from India, and Hinduism was from India too. The Buddha was born in Hindu family, just as Jesus born in Jewish family. But the ba-sic beliefs are different. 

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In each religion, there are rules. For example, in Hindu-ism the worshippers are not allowed to eat beef. The re-ligion rule is about dressing, eating, hair, marriage. There are several rules about Buddhism.  

Where does Buddhist worship?

Buddhists can worship both at home or at a temple. It is not considered important to go to a temple to wor-ship with others.

Home: Buddhists will often set aside a room or a part of a room as a shrine. There will be a statue of Bud-dha, candles, and an incense burner.

Temple: Same as the home, inside the temple there are statue of Buddha, candles and incense burner. Most popular temple is in China and Japan.

Famen temple: It’s located to Famen town, Fufeng country. In 147 AD king Asoka in India traveled throughout Asia, spreading Buddhist leftovers as pun-ishment for his sins and war like attitude. In China, he built this temple and left the fingers of Buddha to be protected here. The reason why Famen temple is popu-lar and important place is because the Indian king built this temple. Other reason is because temple is a place that the Buddhist worships.

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PART 3

These are the basic rule of Buddhism. “The five pre-cepts”.

1. Do not kill. This is sometimes translated as "not harming" or an absence of violence.  

2. Do not steal. This is generally interpreted as including the avoidance of fraud and economic exploi-tation.  

3. Do not lie. This is sometimes interpreted as in-cluding name calling, gossip, etc.  

4. Do not misuse sex. For monks and nuns, this means any departure from complete celibacy. For the laity, adultery is forbidden, along with any sexual har-assment or exploitation, including that within mar-riage. The Buddha did not discuss consensual premari-tal sex within a committed relationship; Thus, Bud-dhist traditions differ on this. Most Buddhists, probably influenced by their local cultures, condemn same-sex sexual activity regardless of the nature of the relation-ship between the people involved.  

5. Do not consume alcohol or other drugs. The main concern here is that intoxicants cloud the mind. Some have included as a drug other methods of divorc-ing ourselves from reality -- e.g. movies, television, the Internet.

Rules of Buddhist

Many people think Buddhists eat only plain rice or hold to a strictly vegetarian diet. In truth Buddhists are motivated to a vegetarian diet as eating meat implies that animals have suffered. The only foods outside of a Buddhist's diet would be alcoholic drinks, and food pre-pared from animals slaughtered.  One of Buddhist rule is shaving their hair. The reason why they are shaving their hair is when the prince who was to become the Buddha, one of the first things that he did was to shave off his hair and beard and put on the yellow cloth. Buddhist always completely shaves their head and beard, showing their promise to the holy life. There is not a rule about clothing, but there is a cloth that Buddhist wears. The Buddhist wears robe cloth. They wore 25 centuries ago. One of the robe cloths is called uttarasanga or kashaya. The uttarasan-ga or kashaya is the most well-known robe. It is a large

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rectangle, about 6 by 9 feet, that can be wrapped to cover both shoulders, but most often it is wrapped to cover the left shoulder but leave the right shoulder and arm bare.

                                           

There is not really rules about the maraige but these are the basic rules about mariage.

• Supporting one's parents

• Loving one's spouse and children

• Being generous

• Having a sense of duty

• Helping relatives and acting blamelessly

• Reverence, humility, contentment, gratitude and listening to the Dharma (teachings)

This is the buddhist religious robe cloth. It’s called the uttarasanga or kashaya. The Buddhist wore 25 centu-ries ago. It’s a large rectangle shape and the Buddhist wrap to cover shoulder. This robe cloth is important to the religion. The reason is because it’s the traditional cloth and they wear the cloth and worship the Buddha.

 

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This ceremony is one of the major ceremony. It’s called the Buddha’s day, also called Vesak. The Bud-dhist celebrates the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha on the one day. The Buddhist brings food and candles and flowers to the monks to celebrate Ve-sak. It’s important to Buddhism. Cause this ceremony is related to the Buddhism. Because the Buddhist cele-brate the Buddha’s birth, Enlightenment and passing away on the full moon of the 6th lunar month (May).

 

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