Where does Buddhism get its name from?(click for more questions)?

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1.Where does Buddhism get its name from?
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2.Explain the significance of the Four Passing Sights.
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3.What is asceticism and what did Gautama hope to achieve by practicing it?
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4.Can you think of any forms of asceticism that people practice today?
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5.What is your opinion of the concept known in Buddhism as “The Middle Way”?
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6.What did the Buddha attain when he reached enlightenment?
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7.Why did the Buddha refrain from embracing complete Nirvana after he reached his awakening?
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8.What are the three jewels of Buddhism? If you had to choose three essential elements of your faith what would they be?
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Answer 1

1.the buddhism is the teaching of lord buddha. thats how it got its name.

2.lord buddha before the enlightenment was a prince. he had everything he wanted and his king(dad) made sure that the prince is happy by providing him with everything. oneday prince sees the 4 passing sights an old person, a sick person, a dead body and a monk. then he realised that we all grow old and fall sick and die. He was facinated by the calmness of the monk and thought a simple life that would be the best. this ultimately led himself to become a monk.

3. It was a wide spread practice at that time and he hoped to find an answer thru that. It is rfraining from everything. No food no drink but just meditation. Giving ur body enomouse pain. First he was simply hoping to find an answer to the four sightings. Not to grow old and not to fall sick and die.

4. Not to the extent Lord buddha did.

5.It is the way of not giving urself too much pain and not too much comforts either. It is the best way to live. But unfortunately most of us always look for comforts. no matter howmuch we have, we are never satisfied with what we have. the middle way is the perfect answer.

6.In short the state of Buddha. He understood why we all suffer. and what we should do not to suffer. He could see past present and future. Could read others minds. wow he could do a lot.

7.what do u mean by that? being buddha is attaining Nivana. although there are other ways of attaining nirvana as well.

8.3 jewels are buddha himself, his teachings and the monks. Defenetly these 3 jewels since I'm a buddhist my self.

there was this guy thetaalways who seem to have wrong ideas of buddhism. He says gautama is the best out of all buddhas. That is not true. there are no good better and best buddhas. All attained the same enlightenment and all had the same knowledge and teachings. we talk about gautama most, because he was the latest of them. and it is his teaching that we have now. All the others lived long ago. longer than what u can imagine.

and he tells in his answer that lord buddha wrote something somewhere. Well, lord buddha never kept written record of his teachings. he always preached and the monks memorised them. This is how the techings came from generation to generation until the monks in sri lanka(where I'm from) wrote them in to books about 7 or 8 centuries ago.

If u r interested in buddhism I'm happy to help u.

Answer 2

Buddha : is simply one who has attained the state of "bodhi".
There have been many buddhas and there are expected to be many more.
Bodhi : One who has attained intellectual and ethical perfection by human means. Bodhi means enlightenment.
The Dhyana is really the source of what you are calling Buddhism. First appearing in India. Dharma was a legendary Hindu sage.
Dhyana again means Knowing and Looking. The Veda, the Tao, the Dharma, all mean Knowing. They are all religious works. These are actually the religions of about two thirds of the population of earth.
We erroneously know about it as, and call it Buddhism in the Western World. It actually has very little to do with Buddha. The Dhyana is what the Buddhists talk about and is their background.
There were many Bohdis, or Buddhas.The greatest was Gautama Sakyamuni. (Known as The Buddha )
He was looked upon as the founder of the Dhyana, but it existed quite a long time before he came along.He was a great teacher, and scientific philosopher.
He wrote in Dharma-Parda:
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. It is founded upon our thoughts. It is made up of our thoughts."
This is the same theme of Knowing and religious philosophy that runs through these all these particular philosophers.

AS for all these other questions... Is this a homework assignment?
If you research the life of Guatama Buddha it should answer most of your questions. The rest of it came about after he died
and was created by his monks and followers, not by him actually.

Answer 3

Buddhism means"System of the Awakened".The Four Passing Sights are the illusion of aloneness,the illusion of physical perception,the illusion of matter,the illusion of time.Asceticism is the practice of self-denial;desires etc.Gautama hoped to transcend the sense of ego-self.question number 4 answers itself.The "Middle Way" is the method and power of balance.Having a foot in both worlds,secular and spiritual.Awareness of the core of the Self"I Am"and i'ts unity with All That Is.Because "nirvana" implies loss of individuality and All That Is is the creator of individuality not the destroyer of it.You have to figure out number 8 yourself.

Answer 4

i've got faith Buddhism got here out of Hinduism. i've got faith you probably can save on with Lord Shiva. Hinduism is a existence-style. there are a number of distinctive followers of distinctive deities in the hindu faith. you're loose to maintain on with despite deity with out persecution.

Answer 5

1. Buddha is it's founder
5. if this is the same as "the golden mean" i agree, if it is not i have no idea.
i have no idea about the rest of the questions.

Answer 6

wikipedia.org/wiki/bhuddism