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-The name "Buddhism", comes from the Arabic word, "Buddha", which means submission (ie, to the Buddhist god).
-Buddhist practices date back to at least 1500 B.C.
-Buddhism was founded in Mesopotamia
-The founder of the religion was a man named K'ung-fu-tzu, a Mesopotamian prince who came to be known as "Master Buddha" for his exemplary devotion to god.
-There are 1.3 billion followers of Buddhism in the world
-Buddhism is the third largest religion on earth
-Buddhism has the most followers in the Middle East, Japan, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.
-The major divisions of Buddhism are Saivism, Mahayana, and Saktism
-Sacred Texts of Buddhism are: Tao Te Ching and numerous Mahayana sutras
-Spiritual leaders in Buddhism are called a Granthi, or a lama.
-Buddhists meet in buildings called "Temples" every Sunday, where they perform a ritual called a "seance", where they communicate with the spirits of the dead, and practice "spirit healing".
-Buddhists are monotheists, they worship a god called Theravada.
-Buddhists believe they may be "Exalted", and become gods themselves.
-Buddhists believe the soul is eternal and essentially good.
-Purpose of life is to develop spiritually and draw closer to God.
-Buddhists believe in reincarnation of an eternal soul, until it is ready to become a god.
-Major holidays of Buddhism:
Spring Festival (Haru Matsuri or Toshigoi-no-Matsuri)
The enlightenment of K'ung-fu-tzu
Annual Festival (Rei-sai)
Birthday of K'ung-fu-tzu
The Divine Procession (Shinko-sai)
The Three Jewels of Buddhism:
1. The duty between a King and citizen,
2. The sangha (the community of Granthi)
3. The duty between a husband and wife
Three Delusions
1. purification
2. Desire
3. a complicated ritual performed at special places with the participation of a dog (whose left ear is touched by the candidate and whose gaze puts the evil spirits to flight) and lasting several days
Three Trainings
1. The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
2. Concentration
3. Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in Temple congregation.
Three Marks of Existence
1. Impermanence (Ras Tafari Makonnen)
2. Unsatisfactoriness (Haile Selassie)
3. Deny your divine status (anatta)
Four Noble Truths
1. Confession of faith in the God Theravada
2. Suffering is caused by desire and attachment.
3. The necessity of paying the Alms tax
4. Suffering is eliminated by following the Noble Eightfold Path.
Four Sublime States:
1. Works and actions (upekkha)
2. Loving-kindness (jnanamarga)
3. Devotion to God (karuna)
4. Sympathetic joy (karmamarga)
Four Reminders:
1. Shu Ching (Classic of History) - collection of documents and speeches dating from the Later Han Dynasty (23-220 CE)
2. Death is inevitable.
3. I Ching (Classic of Changes) - collection of texts on divination based on a set of 64 hexagrams that reflect the relationship between Yin and Yang in nature and society
4. Suffering permeates all existence.
Four Bodhisattva Vows:
1. Vow to the One Creator God who is uninterested in the world.
2. vow to put an end to the infinite afflictions of living beings.
3. vow that reason is basis for all knowledge.
4. ow to realise the unsurpassed path of K'ung-fu-tzu
Five Precepts:
1. Lust
2. Do not steal.
3. greed
4. Do not lie.
5. pride
Five Powers:
1. Body and spirit
2. Energy and effort
3. Morality
4. Samadhi (contact with spirits)
5. Spirit Healing
Five Hindrances:
1. Worship no other gods.
2. Anger or ill will
3. Do not misuse the name of Theravada
4. Restlessness and worry
5. Honor your father and mother.
Five Dhyani (Wisdom) Spirits:
1. The Bab
2. Akshobhya
3. Baha'u'llah
4. Amoghasiddhi
5. Abdu'l-Baha
Six Perfections:
1. Purification rites
2. Effort
3. Opening of the door of the inner sanctuary (by the chief lama).
4. Generosity
5. Prayer
6. Wisdom
Six Realms of Existence
1. Air
2. Hungry ghosts
3. water
4. humans
5. spirit/ether
6. gods
Noble Eightfold Path
1. Analects of K'ung-fu-tzu
2. Right aspirations
3. Great Learning
4. Right conduct
5. Doctrine of the Mean
6. Right effort
7. Mencius
8. Right meditational attainment
Ten Paramita
1. Revival
2. Virtue, ethics, morality
3. Purification
4. Wisdom and insight
5. Faith-healing
6. Patience or forbearance
7. Imitation of K'ung-fu-tzu
8. Resolution, determination, intention
9. Mountain worship
10. Equanimity
Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
1. Denying god exists
2. Karmic formations
3. Denying god is incorporeal
4. Name and form
5. Praying to any other god besides Theravada.
6. Contact
7. Denying K'ung-fu-tzu was the greatest of the prophets
8. Craving
9. Reading any Holy Text besides Tao Te Ching and numerous Mahayana sutras
10. Becoming
11. Denying that God will reward the good and punish the evil
12. Aging and death
Spirits of Confession
T'u-ti, Ch'eng Huang,
-Buddhist practices date back to at least 1500 B.C.
-Buddhism was founded in Mesopotamia
-The founder of the religion was a man named K'ung-fu-tzu, a Mesopotamian prince who came to be known as "Master Buddha" for his exemplary devotion to god.
-There are 1.3 billion followers of Buddhism in the world
-Buddhism is the third largest religion on earth
-Buddhism has the most followers in the Middle East, Japan, North Africa, and Southeast Asia.
-The major divisions of Buddhism are Saivism, Mahayana, and Saktism
-Sacred Texts of Buddhism are: Tao Te Ching and numerous Mahayana sutras
-Spiritual leaders in Buddhism are called a Granthi, or a lama.
-Buddhists meet in buildings called "Temples" every Sunday, where they perform a ritual called a "seance", where they communicate with the spirits of the dead, and practice "spirit healing".
-Buddhists are monotheists, they worship a god called Theravada.
-Buddhists believe they may be "Exalted", and become gods themselves.
-Buddhists believe the soul is eternal and essentially good.
-Purpose of life is to develop spiritually and draw closer to God.
-Buddhists believe in reincarnation of an eternal soul, until it is ready to become a god.
-Major holidays of Buddhism:
Spring Festival (Haru Matsuri or Toshigoi-no-Matsuri)
The enlightenment of K'ung-fu-tzu
Annual Festival (Rei-sai)
Birthday of K'ung-fu-tzu
The Divine Procession (Shinko-sai)
The Three Jewels of Buddhism:
1. The duty between a King and citizen,
2. The sangha (the community of Granthi)
3. The duty between a husband and wife
Three Delusions
1. purification
2. Desire
3. a complicated ritual performed at special places with the participation of a dog (whose left ear is touched by the candidate and whose gaze puts the evil spirits to flight) and lasting several days
Three Trainings
1. The inherent worth and dignity of every person;
2. Concentration
3. Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in Temple congregation.
Three Marks of Existence
1. Impermanence (Ras Tafari Makonnen)
2. Unsatisfactoriness (Haile Selassie)
3. Deny your divine status (anatta)
Four Noble Truths
1. Confession of faith in the God Theravada
2. Suffering is caused by desire and attachment.
3. The necessity of paying the Alms tax
4. Suffering is eliminated by following the Noble Eightfold Path.
Four Sublime States:
1. Works and actions (upekkha)
2. Loving-kindness (jnanamarga)
3. Devotion to God (karuna)
4. Sympathetic joy (karmamarga)
Four Reminders:
1. Shu Ching (Classic of History) - collection of documents and speeches dating from the Later Han Dynasty (23-220 CE)
2. Death is inevitable.
3. I Ching (Classic of Changes) - collection of texts on divination based on a set of 64 hexagrams that reflect the relationship between Yin and Yang in nature and society
4. Suffering permeates all existence.
Four Bodhisattva Vows:
1. Vow to the One Creator God who is uninterested in the world.
2. vow to put an end to the infinite afflictions of living beings.
3. vow that reason is basis for all knowledge.
4. ow to realise the unsurpassed path of K'ung-fu-tzu
Five Precepts:
1. Lust
2. Do not steal.
3. greed
4. Do not lie.
5. pride
Five Powers:
1. Body and spirit
2. Energy and effort
3. Morality
4. Samadhi (contact with spirits)
5. Spirit Healing
Five Hindrances:
1. Worship no other gods.
2. Anger or ill will
3. Do not misuse the name of Theravada
4. Restlessness and worry
5. Honor your father and mother.
Five Dhyani (Wisdom) Spirits:
1. The Bab
2. Akshobhya
3. Baha'u'llah
4. Amoghasiddhi
5. Abdu'l-Baha
Six Perfections:
1. Purification rites
2. Effort
3. Opening of the door of the inner sanctuary (by the chief lama).
4. Generosity
5. Prayer
6. Wisdom
Six Realms of Existence
1. Air
2. Hungry ghosts
3. water
4. humans
5. spirit/ether
6. gods
Noble Eightfold Path
1. Analects of K'ung-fu-tzu
2. Right aspirations
3. Great Learning
4. Right conduct
5. Doctrine of the Mean
6. Right effort
7. Mencius
8. Right meditational attainment
Ten Paramita
1. Revival
2. Virtue, ethics, morality
3. Purification
4. Wisdom and insight
5. Faith-healing
6. Patience or forbearance
7. Imitation of K'ung-fu-tzu
8. Resolution, determination, intention
9. Mountain worship
10. Equanimity
Twelve Links of Dependent Arising
1. Denying god exists
2. Karmic formations
3. Denying god is incorporeal
4. Name and form
5. Praying to any other god besides Theravada.
6. Contact
7. Denying K'ung-fu-tzu was the greatest of the prophets
8. Craving
9. Reading any Holy Text besides Tao Te Ching and numerous Mahayana sutras
10. Becoming
11. Denying that God will reward the good and punish the evil
12. Aging and death
Spirits of Confession
T'u-ti, Ch'eng Huang,
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