Prince Gautama Siddhartha Buddha's real name founder of Buddhism, one of the largest religions in the world. Rupandehi king's son, northeast India. border with Nepal. Own Siddhartha (Gautama of the Sakya clan clan) supposedly born in Lumbini, which now included the territory of Nepal. Married at the age of sixteen years with his cousin the same age. Raised in a luxurious palace, Prince Siddhartha did not feel at home with good living lazed, and dogged by a sense not very satisfied. From the glittering palace window he looked into the outside and she saw the poor lying in the streets, not eating late morning, or not able to eat at all. Day by day chasing the necessities of life which never reached as a bundle of wheat in the donkey hanging on the muzzle. Tarolah was a hobo. Meanwhile, the dispossessed were often kehinggapan dissatisfaction, anxiety anxious, disappointed and depressed because of all haunted by the disease every time dragged him to the grave. Siddhartha thought, this situation must be changed. Must be realized the meaning of life in the sense of the word, and not just a temporary pleasure that always overshadowed by the suffering and death.
When twenty-nine years old, shortly after his first son was born, Gautama decided he must leave palace life and mengharnbakan ourselves to the search for truth is not gilding. Thinking is not just to think, but act. With spinach roll he left the palace, without a wife and children, without carrying any goods and property, and became homeless with no penny in my pocket. The first step, for the time being, he is studying from the wise men in those days and after feeling quite bagging science, he arrived at the conclusion of solving the problem of human discontent.
Public opinion, asceticism was the path to true wisdom. On the assumption that Gautama tried to become a monk, many years of fasting and abstinence as good-great. Eventually he realized behavior torturing myself blur the edges just thoughts, and instead leads closer to the truth. Thought had thought, he decided to eat only mild like normal human beings and stop all kinds of meditation because the act is not only useless but can make a skinny body, sluggish, firefly eyes, drowsiness, rheumatic pain, not even close to stupid.
In a quiet peaceful solitude that she struggled with the life of a human problem. Finally one night, when he was sitting under a tree broadleaf and fruit of a pear shape semacarn laden seeds of all kinds, then berdatanganlah puzzle of life issues as if falling on him. Siddhartha reflected in all-night-in and when the sun broke the eastern horizon and she gasped in unison convinced that the already complex issues resolved and then he started calling himself the Buddha "a given illumination."
At that age turned thirty-five years. The remaining age of forty-five years employed the traveled throughout northern India, spreading his new philosophy in front of audiences who are willing to listen. When he died, in 483 BC, already hundreds of thousands of followers of his teachings. Although his remarks are still not written one-petuahnya but admonished by many of his followers memorized by rote, passed down from one generation to the next generation through the mouth alone.
Basic Buddhism can be summarized in what the term adherents "Four virtues of truth:" first, that human life is basically unhappy, secondly, the cause of this unhappiness is to think of self-interest and chained by lust; third, the idea of self-interest own and lust can be pressed out when all passions and desires can be dispensed with, in Buddhism is called nirvana; fourth, weighing the right, think right, talk right, do right, make a living right, trying to correct, given the correct, true meditation. Can ditarnbahkan Buddhism was open for anyone, regardless of whatever race he is, (this distinguishes it from Hinduism).
Moments after Gautama's death this new religion spread slowly. In the 3rd century BC, a great Indian emperor Ashoka converted to named power of Buddhism. Thanks to its support, the spread of Buddhism streaking profusely, not only in India but also in Burma. From here it spread throughout agarna Southeast Asia, Malaysia and Indonesia.
The wind spread the influence was not just blowing to the south but also to the north, broke into Tibet, Afghanistan and Central Asia. Not until there. He mengambah China and claimed the amount of influence that is not artificial and from there crossed over to Japan and Korea.
While India's own new religion began to decline his influence after the year 500 AD approximately even nearly extinct in the year 1200. By contrast in China and in Japan, Buddhism remained the principal religion. Similarly, in Tibet and Southeast Asia that religion had its heyday centuries.
Buddha's teachings are not written until centuries after Gautama's death. Because it is easy understandable why religion is fragmented into various sects. Two major branches of Buddhism are Theravada branch-effects, especially in Southeast Asia and supposedly most of Western scholars is the closest branch of the Buddhist teachings are original. Another branch is the Mahayana, the weight of his influence lies in Tibet, China and also in Southeast Asia in general.
Buddha, as founder of one of the largest religions in the world, certainly worthy ranked almost top levels in this book list. Because the number of followers of Buddhism, lived 200 million compared with the adherents of Islam that 500 million number and the one billion adherents of Christianity, Buddhism itself is smaller than the influence of Muhammad or Jesus. However, the different number of believers, if a measure is exceedingly tight, it could be misleading. For example, the demise or decline of Buddhism in India is not just any slump slump but because Hinduism has absorbed many teachings and principles of Buddhism into his body. In China too, large numbers of people who no longer openly call themselves Buddhists in the practice of everyday life is actually very influenced by the philosophy of religion.
Buddhism, far ahead of both Islam and Christianity, has a very prominent pacifist elements. The view that originate in non-violent play an important role in the political history berpenganut Buddhist countries.
Many people say if someday Isa fell back to earth he would stare surprised to see what people are doing everything in his name, and will be anxious for the bloodshed that occurred in the conflict between different sects of opinion that are equally claim to be followers. So also will happen to the Buddha. He could not be gape-agape watching so many sects of Buddhism are unfolding everywhere everywhere, each different from each other even though they claim to Buddhists. Narnun, however chaotic sects are different from each other is not sarnpai cause bloody religious wars such as occurred in the Christian world of Europe. In this connection, at least means the Buddha's teachings in-depth look much lived by its followers than the teachings of Jesus dalarn same connection.
Buddha and Confucius-Cu have approximately equal influence on the world. Both live in almost the same time period, and the number of his followers were not much different. My choice of putting the Buddha's name ahead of Hu-Cu Kong in order rests on two considerations: first, the development of Communism in China was almost wiped out the influence of Confucius-Cu, while it seems the future Buddha was still more loopholes and influence than in Confucius- Cu, secondly, the failure of the teachings of Confucius-Cu was spread beyond China showed how close the link bertautnya Kong Hu Cu-teaching with the attitude and procedures of the old era of China. Instead, Buddhism contains no repeat statements or chewed previous Indian philosophy, and Buddhism spread to step yard limit country-India-rests Gautama genuine ideas and wide range of philosophies.
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