Theravada Buddhism Presentation

REL/133World Religious Traditions I

Background onTheravada Buddhism

The oldest lasting school initiated by adherents taught directly by Buddha himself.

One of the three major factions of Buddhism is Known as the “Doctrine of the Elders”.

Theravada Buddhism is conceived to be the most ascetic monastic training.

Theravada Buddhist Temple:Wat Thai of Los Angeles

Largest central Thai Theravada Buddhist Temple in the United States.

Temple endures as a honor to Thai architecture Serves a figured 40,000 Thais. Monks at Wat Thai: Are staffs of the Theravada part of Buddhism Are very reserved Hold purely what Buddha taught Have altered no teachings fixed down by Buddha.

Buddha's Life and Teachings

Siddhartha (The Buddha) was the son of prince born into a life of deluxe . His aunt helped take care of him because Just after a few days he was born his mother had died

His father desired him to be a king and warrior, he never desired him to dissimilar than him. To prevent him from being brought out to the suffering which was bumping outside the palace, His father kept him locked within the walls of palace.

One day he(Siddhartha) decided to refuse his father and leave the palace walls where he was brought out to suffering.

Buddha's Life and Teachings

Siddhartha was traveled by vivid benevolence once brought out to the suffering he found. How can suffering be depreciate, and how any one can find and preserve peace within are the two key question which became his plight .

These involvement not only aided to figure who The Buddha would turn, but also aided him to alter the way of enduring and comprehending the world.

The teaching methods of Buddha’s are like himself al of they are practical. They head back to his involvement with suffering.

Buddha's Life and Teachings

He desired to focus on how we can criticize suffering for others and ourselves as well.

These issues are not only Buddha’s intellective solutions but these are also testimonials of a general way of living.

In order for it to be fruitful ,Buddhism is not a object which is originated but it is something which has to be experienced.

Theravada's Origin

Around 100 BCE Originated from a schisms group that began in India around 100 BCE

Became prominent in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia

Also known as Southern Buddhism

Estimated current followers = 124,000,000

Often labeled the “Hinayana” or “Lesser Vehicle”

Theravada claims to trace their lineage to the original followers of the Buddha

Theravada's Canonical Writings A aggregation of Buddha’s teachings

written in the Pali language.

Divided into:• the Buddha’s sermons, • the monastic rules, and• philosophical enumeration of the

Buddha’s teaching.

Theravada doctrine is developed on the distinction between samsara and nirvana.

Theravada's Ultimate Goal:

“To escape samsara and enter nirvana”

Accomplished by attaining the position of an arhat, a pure saint expelled from the samsara cycle and will to be born-again.

Theraveda is generally considered to be tight monastic custom; however, ordinary person can participate by:• Providing material back up to the

monk which develops positive karma

• Meditation• Adopting basic honorable

principles of the Buddha’s teachings

Unique Practices & Traditions

Theravada meditation practices:• Samantha: makes a individual

skillful in concentration of mind • Vipassana: allows one to see

through the veil of ignorance

Four Noble Truths

• Dukkha (suffering)• The cause of Dukkha• The cessation of Dukkha• The path of practice leading to the

cessation of Dukkha

Unique Practices & Traditions The Eightfold route and the exercise of

Dhamma. Buddhists advanced by the following s phases of development:1. Discernment2. Virtue3. Concentration4. Awakening

A individual must live his or her life in mitigation and recall to follow the set principle that Buddha has set forth.

Buddhism is the crucial pursuit of happiness.

Hope and positive believing are the outcome of Buddhist practices.

Following all the phases which Buddha has set forth will assist in the ultimate exemption of suffering.

Conclusion

Theravada Buddhism, encouraged by a repudiation of the worldly, householder mode of life in order to turn free from the consequent suffering.

The aim to get away from suffering (the perpetual cycle of birth and death, craving, anger, and other afflicting states) and to find out the real peace of the state of brain that is free. I

Vispassana and Samanatha are the two kinds of meditation exercised by Theraveda Buddhists for access reality with the brain.

Conclusion

The Buddha instructs that the remedy to suffering is compassion.

Once truth is snatched, using many meditational exercises, compassion can bloom.

Compassion is a individual’s capability

to understand with other person or oneself , and behave according to the most prominent needed of a situation.

Conclusion

The instructs are meant to be a path to show compassion in believed, word, and action, to terminate suffering. 

Not conceiving the fruits of his comprehension and the big scale of people Buddha affected, a individual is capable of that similar level of compassion which permits him or her to assist terminate suffering within and without.

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