BUDDHISM

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BUDDHISM

• A short presentation by Arvid Sascha

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Structure

• Short information
• Map of different religions
• Cause and effect Karma
• Samsara circle of life
• Reincarnation
• Dharma
• Bhodi
• Nirvana
• World-view

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Short information

• 350 - 500 millions of followers
• China, Bhutan, Japan, Kambodscha, Laos, Mongolei
• Foundation in Siddhartha Gautama, the historical
  Buddha, which had been living in North-India

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Map of different religions
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Cause and effect Karma

• Karma (Sanskrit karman Pali kamma deed,
  operation) is a spiritual concept whereby every
  action( physical and mental) has inevitably a
  consequence
• can concern the current life as well as the
  lives after it
• closely connected to Samsara, which is belief in
  the cycle of new births
• every act and mental activity produces Karma and
  further ensnarements
• Buddhists try to stop the production of Karma to
  interrupt the circular flow
• the three ways to a positive Karma modesty ,
  goodness , understanding

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Samsara circle of life

• A continuous circle of life, death, rebirth
• Target break out of this circle

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Reincarnation

• Reincarnation (Pali Punabbhava) means new
  birth, was already known in the Indian
  philosophie before Buddha's appearance
• Buddha denied the idea of the self (Sanskrit
  atman Pali atta), presented it as an illusion
  of the character of the world
• personality evolves from five acquisition groups
  body, perception, apperception, mental
  inspiration, consciousness
• no constant unit gt no rebirth as such
• impulse emerging from the Karma

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Dharma

• Dharma has two different meanings
• Basis of the Dharma are the four noble truths.
• These truths are building one of the three jewels
  and serve for a resort object
• The common ground of all phenomenon which are
  earthly ( nature and their legality )

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Bodhi

• Bodhi is the process of the awakening, the
  enlightenment
• Requirements
• the comprehension of the four noble thruths
• The overcoming of all needs which are requiered
  for life
• Bodhi affords the breakthrough of Samsara and
  getting the Nirvana

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Nirvana

• Target leaving Samsara
• You cant describe Nirvana with words, it can
  just be experienced through methods like
  meditation and awareness
• Nirvana describes the end-state, no rebirth in
  another sphere
• State of statelessness

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World-view

• religion, but also philosophie
• no exclusion of other religions/world-views
• important aspects Karma doctrine, the four
  noble verities of
  Buddha
• contradictory to most other religions
• much different interpretations of Buddhism
• religion as definition sometimes insufficient