buddhism

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buddhism
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Founder/origin

• Siddhartha Gautama
• 563-483 BCE
• Present-day Nepal

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Creation myth

• Universe is cyclical
• No godno relationship with god

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Holidays/clothing/ HOLy book

• New Years Day
• Birth of Buddha (Vesak)
• Sangha Day
• Dharma Day
• Monkssaffron robes
• Holy book Tripitaka

• Branches
• Theravada (Tibetan)
• Mahayana
• Zen
• Vajrayana

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Holy
cities/hierarchy/today/women

• Lumbini
• Temple
• Buddhist monks
• TibetanDalai Lama at top
• 376 million, mostly in Asia
• Men and women equal

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Basic beliefs

• 4 Noble Truths
• Dukkhalife is full of suffering
• Suffering caused by desires
• Ending suffering ends desires
• Follow 8-fold path to end desire
• People should become self-aware
• Learn mental discipline
• Avoid harming others
• Abandon destructive feelings and behaviors
• Act and think in constructive ways
• Buddha any fully enlightened person
• Nirvana ends cycle of reincarnation, achieve
  enlightenment

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Rituals

• Meditationbreathing
• 8-fold path
• Five Precepts
• Do not kill
• Do not steal
• Do not engage in sexual misconduct
• Do not lie
• Do not take intoxicants

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Salvation/afterlife

• 8-fold path
• Right understanding, thought, speech, action,
  living, effort, mindfulness, meditation
• Goal is to reach nirvana
• Reincarnation until you reach nirvana