Buddhist Religious Traditions Paper

Buddhism is a philosophy / religion established by Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) more than 2500 years ago based on the Hindu beliefs. Mahayana Buddhism and the upper house, and there are many subdivisions. Fundamentally, Buddhists believe that they must transcend their desires and reach the state of enlightenment. The Buddha was worshiped and then deified, but he never claimed to be more than just men (dictionary.com, 2005). The purpose of this document is to answer the following questions based on the specified reading of the second week. What is the characteristic of Hindu religious tradition?

As one of the earliest existing religious traditions born from the spiritually fertile Indian subcontinent, Jainism has similarities with the characteristics of the Hinduism and Buddhist traditions that appeared there. Just like Hinduism and Buddhism, Jainism teaches the doctrine of karma, resurrection, and spiritual practice of monks (not mysterious). Jains believes that the soul is constantly changing Life alone can connect to the body This is part of the infinite and constant universe Unlike Hinduism and Buddhist concepts about the soul I will. Unlike Hinduism, it avoids social liberation and instead requires the believer to support spiritual liberty. Today, most of 5 million Jiners from 4 million people in the world live in India.

As we all know, religious beliefs and practices are special. Christian prayers by the name of Jesus, spiritual meditation of Buddhism, and calls of Muslims of Allah derive from unique religious and cultural traditions. There may be some common features in these spiritual practices, but their differences are equally profound. These traditional values, beliefs, and virtues occasionally overlap, but more frequently they are contradictory. How do these conflicting values ​​are consistently reflected in public policy decisions? How do civil servants decide to introduce these diversity and confrontation beliefs into the public square? Given the historical trend of violent conflict caused by differences in religion, the introduction of religion into public life may create political discord which separates moral updates.

Western encounters often criticize Buddhism as a religious tradition without God or an unknown world view in encountering the West with the Buddhist world. In the early 20th century America, the Creator's Godless religion was socially unacceptable. Therefore, Buddhist publications from the beginning of the 20th century thought that Buddhism has a god, but understanding of God is different from God of monotheism of Christianity. Indeed, they believe that the concept of God in Buddhism is beyond a single existence, including existence and absence, which indicates that Buddhism "God" is better than Christian monotheism.