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Buddhism

Buddhist Rituals and Worship

Buddhist Worship and Rituals

The Buddhist people have many elaborate rituals and worship traditions, including those for everyday worship, birth, death, and many more. Monks and nuns carry these traditions by practising the religion, and there are many rituals in which worshippers thank them for doing so. Through temples and monasteries and rituals, the Buddhist people keep their religion living.

Regular Worship

• In most Buddhist houses, has a special room in the house for a shrine

- a Buddha Statue, candles, incense.

• Many Buddhists meditate

-allows mind to settle

- helps to achieve calmness and clarity

• Can worship at home or at a Buddhist temple

Death

• Believed to be natural result of being born
• Kept in house for 3-7 days
• Body is burned to let the spirit escape
• Before death, Buddhist will be blessed by a nun or monk.

Monks

• Live in monasteries with few possessions
• Full Moon

• Celebrate important events in
• Celebrate important events in

Buddha’s life

• Offerings brought for monks Monks chant blessings
• Offerings brought for monks
• Monks chant blessings
• Initiation (entering monk community, called Sangha) Can enter at young age Receive a new Buddhist name Head is shaved Bound to code of rules called ‘Vinaya’
• Can enter at young age
• Receive a new Buddhist name
• Head is shaved
• Bound to code of rules called ‘Vinaya’

Various Rituals

Birth

• Can take baby to monastery
• Request name with special meaning

eg. Jokata = Maker of Clarity (fem.)

• Blessings for:

• Protection Health Happiness Noble Qualities
• Protection
• Health
• Happiness
• Noble Qualities

Buddhist Beliefs

Buddhist Beliefs

The Buddhist people are very devoted to their religion. They believe that the world is imperfect and that they can fix it by achieving Nirvana (the end of imperfectness). They also believe in many other things such as the philosophy of Duhka and Karma.

The “Three Jewels” of Buddhism

Buddha – the teacher

Dharma – the teachings

Sangha – the community

Beliefs: Words

• Anatta - The belief that there is nothing called a soul

• Anicca - Impermanence, the belief that nothing lasts

• Duhka - Suffering and everything that is unsatisfactory

• Karma - Actions that effect future lives

Beliefs: Main beliefs

• They do not believe in god
• They believe that by following the teachings of the Buddha they will find peace
• The Buddha found ways to overcome the imperfectness
• They meditate
• They believe that the Buddha was human

Beliefs: Noble truths

• First Noble Truth : Duhka happens everywhere at all times
• Second Noble Truth : Duhka is caused by greed and selfishness
• Third Noble Truth : Greed and selfishness can be stopped
• Fourth Noble Truth : The way to stop selfishness is to follow the noble Eightfold path

Eightfold Path

BUDDHISM ORIGINS

The Buddha was not a god or a legend. He was an amazing person that went out to seek the truth. He traveled all over finding help from others like him, almost starved to death and slept on beds of thorns. But all he had to do was close his eyes, and look within himself.

The beginning

• Siddharta Gautama founded Buddhism
• Was born 2500 years ago
• Was son of the king in northern India
• Had a wonderful and luxurious childhood
• Wanted to know how the rest of the world lived
• Went to a nearby village and found poor, and sick people
• He was horrified, could not enjoy castle life any longer

The Journey

• Siddharta Gautama Left the palace, leaving behind family
• After he crossed the river, traded his silk robe for a orange cloth one
• Cut off hair, gave all the jewels to a servant who took him there
• Left his servant and became a poor holy person
• Saught out many other men who gave up everything to look for truth
• Did yoga like exersizes that were supposed to help fing the truth
• Lived in forests, slept on beds of thorn, almost starved

The end of the search

• Siddharta Gautama Arrived at a place, nowadays called Budh Gaya
• Sat down under a Bo tree, sat until he found the truth
• instead of looking outside he looked inside himself
• he found what he was looking for
• Siddharta Gautama changed to the Buddha, meaning the awakened one.

Buddhism important locations

There are many different religious sites that are very important to the Buddhism culture.

There is the Bodh Gaya which is located in northern India, this location is very important because that is where the Buddha would meditate and achieved clarity under a sacred Bo tree.

Another spot is in Lumbini Nepal it was where the Buddha was born. Then at 80 years old the Buddha died in Kushinagara India