Essays on Buddhism

Buddha felt that nothing was really permanent. He asked himself what is this life like? Buddha thus conveyed his message to his father, wife and son. They gave no importance to religious rituals. He tried to find out why the brain was engaged. He added...

Siddhartha Gautama was born 2500 years ago in a small kingdom in ancient India. His mother Queen Maya was returning to her parents home for the birth of her child, the journey was extremely long for the queen to make so on the way the...

From 7 century, the Buddhism Culture spread in Japan and it came from China. Temples were built in throughout of Japan for hoping Japan’s peace and quiet. This time was called the Tenpyo Culture and it is a gorgeous aristocratic and Buddhistic culture. In that...

Siddhartha Gautama or Gautama Buddha was born in the 6th century BCE and was the next air to the thrown in India. His parents believed their son (Siddhartha Gautama) was going to be something extraordinary and they both decided to ask an astrologer to consult...

Siddhartha Gautama was the founder of Buddhism. He was the son of Sadhana the ruler of Kapilvastu. Gautama was born in Lumbini (Present Nepal) in the 5th century BCE. He was the prince of Sakya tribe in Nepal. At the age of 16 he got...

Most people pray to the gods, or angels, or saints for various requests such as good health, fertility, wealth, protection from any kind of harm, peace, happiness, courage, strength which has and still is part of the various cultures for more than two thousand years....

The Buddha is a role model for Buddhist life as he sets an example of a way people can achieve a life with an understanding of suffering and provides answers to life’s major questions. He realises that he had the answer in him all along,...

The most common known Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, was born around 563 bc in a place now known as Nepal. He was a part of a royal family, meaning that they were extremely wealthy, he was brought up in a life of luxury as a prince....

Buddhism as a religion was founded between the late 6th century and the early 4th century BCE by Siddhartha Gautama after he attained Enlightenment (Nirvana) and he shared his message throughout northeastern India, teaching anyone who was willing to learn about the Middle Path, no matter...

The concept of modern Buddhism and pre-modern Buddhism differs as society developed throughout the years and had to change their social construct and beliefs to adapt to the changes throughout the world. This paper will acknowledge what the religion Buddhism is and who is Siddhartha...

With the introduction of Buddhism in 522 A.D., Shinto became much like the majority of religions that were prevailant in this era, a patriarchal institution with patriarchal ideologies. Along with religion, so came Chinese culture and ideologies where a woman could never and should never...

Shinto​ The oldest faith in Japan is Shinto, which means ‘the way of the Gods’. There is neither a founder nor prophets and there is no major text that outlines its principal beliefs. ​ Shinto is an ancient Japanese religion, beginning about five hundred BCE. Its name was derived from...

When a person is pessimistic about the world and loses trust in everything, how can he save himself? Maybe becoming Zen is a way for people to seek peace and get personal enlightenment from it. This is what the author Morinaga chose. Morinaga changes during...

This essay will demonstrate one similarity and two differences between Buddhism and Islam’s belief of the concept of the afterlife/next life. For example, both belief in reaching the end of one’s life (i.e., for Muslims, one will reach either heaven or hell and for Buddhists,...

Taoism and Buddhism are the two major religions beliefs in influencing past artworks and shaping the concept of afterlife and diyu. Aforementioned, the concept of life and death first emerges during the Chun Qiu Zhan Guo period with the notion of Huang Quan. Later, Taoism...

Though Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism have similar philosophies but different religious practices, they all provide their own answers to the origin and end of suffering. These world religions are concerned with how to cope with suffering and offer guidance for the fundamental question of the...

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” John Milton. Religion is commonly interpreted as a belief or worship in an omniscient, superhuman entity who is typically held responsible by their worshippers for the...

Buddhism is the most practiced religious philosophy following in Asia and is based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gotama dating back to 536–476 B.C.E. His disdain at the level of poverty outside the walls of his castle’s opulence predicated his wandering lifestyle to...

On the topic and philosophy behind many religions around the world, there are plenty of differences and similarities between two or more religions. However great or small the detail may be, there is an undeniable fact that we, as humans, all generally want the same...