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Buddhism

Religious Leader: Dalai Lama Founder: Siddhartha Gautama0 Place of Worship: Vihara

Region - was originated from India - spread through all the countries

Description of Gods - they don't believe in one god, believe in many gods -if you want one thing you pray to a god and if u want another thing u will pray to another god like if you want rain you will pray to a god and if you want to stop the rain you will pray for another god Examples: - Green Tara- Mother of all Buddhas - Medicine Buddha- healing - Maitreya- future Buddha - Manjushri- wisdom

Description of Main Beliefs - After death one returns to earthly life in a higher or lower form of life according to his good or bad deeds - faith centers on correct understanding of human nature and ultimate reality - Buddha is their only master - Take refuge in the Buddha, the Ohamma and the Sangha - the world is not created and ruled by a god

Description of Practices - 3 trainings or practices - Sila:Virtue, good conduct, morality. Its based on 2 fundamental principles. - The principle of quality: that all living entities are equal - The principle of reciprocity:this is the golden rule in Christians, to do unto others as you would have them do onto you. - Samadhi: concentration, meditation. mental development, developing one's mind is the path 2 wisdom which in turn leads 2 person freedom. Mental development also strengths and controls our mind; this helped them maintain good conduct - Prajna: discernment; sight, wisdom, enlightment. Its the real heart of buddhism, wisdom will emerge if your mind is pure and calm.

Description of Sacred Writings - divided into the catorgories of canonical and non-canonial - written by a Tibetan monk, describes indetail the stages of death from the Tibetan of point of view - the Sutras or Suttras are believed to be either literally or metaphorically, the actual words of Buddha -the tripotaka is the earliest collection of Buddhist teachnings and the only text recognized as canonical by Theravada Buddhists - Mahayana is a sacred writing - Tibetan the book of the dead is the most well known text to the west

Descriptions of festivals - Vesak or Visakah Poja (Buddha Day) - Buddha's birthday celebrates the birth, enlightment and death of the Buddha on the one day, the first full moon in May - Elephant Festival - the Buddha used the example of a wild elephant which when is caught, is harnessed one to train. In the same way, he said a person new to Buddhist should have a special friendship of an older Buddhist. This festival is held on the third Saturday in November. - Festival of the Tooth - In kandy, a great temple was built to house a relic of Buddha - his tooth, the tooth can never be seen but once in a year in August on the night of the full moon there is a special prosession for it.

Symbols - Eight spoked wheel - represents Buddha turning of the wheel of truth or law - Bodhi tree - represents the tree under which the Buddha achieved inlightment - Toothprints - represents the physical presence of the Enlightened one