Religions of World: Western Religions

Religions of World: Western Religions

Introduction

The paper aims to emphasize on the Buddhism religion. Buddhism is one of the great Universalist and one of the oldest religions. Currently, it is also considered as a system of philosophy and ethics and even as psychology. The founder and creator of the basic principles were living in the fifth century BC, the son of the ruler of one of the states in India. According to legend, Buddha's birth was associated with different characters. Mother dreamed of a white elephant carrying a lotus flower in the trumpet, which he entered her womb. When I consulted the wise father learned that his son will be king of the world, or spiritual leader. When he grew up he began to search for their way of life (Cleary et al, 2002). During this time, he learned meditation, led by a group of ascetics, listening to the voices of others. However, this does not give him complete satisfaction. He began meditating under the Bodhi tree and decided that it will be there until solve the mystery of suffering. During the 49 days haunted by the ghost of Mara - Satan, learned his incarnation, as well as to understand the suffering of the world and what should be done to control it (Fisher, 2011).

The virtues and rules advocated by Buddhism are indeed similar to those found in revelation religions (Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). In the religions of revelation, it is about avoiding sins because man will one day stand accountable before God. It is not a question of the amount of sins on his conscience, but about constructive (meritorious) or destructive (non-meritorious) actions - those that lead to happiness and those that lead to the opposite. Buddhism is a religion, which points the way to self-liberation, not showing in God. Therefore, in terms of Western religion is described as atheistic doctrine (Eileen, 1989). The main idea is that at the base of all existence lies emptiness called Sunjata. This is due to the emptiness of own nature phenomena, which cannot exist alone. Appears in progress for some time and go, they have no independent existence. Buddhism assumes that all people are involved with their passion and suffering in the world of illusion, called May. For this reason they cannot get to the truth.

Background

Buddha lived and died well before the time of Jesus. His travels never took him more than two hundred miles away from your home. He actually never talked about God or Jesus, therefore, Buddhists generally do not mention God as Christians do. In its classic form, Buddhism mentions no personal God or Divine Being. Sin is understood as ignorance. And where is understood as some form of moral error, the context in which good and evil are understood is amoral. Karma is understood as the balance of nature and is not reinforced in a personal way (Cleary et al, 2002). Buddhism rejects the concept, according to which man has an ...