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Essay 3: Buddha as a Role Model

Terms in this set (11)

Life of the Buddha (early)
Great Renunciation (gave up life to find Enlightenment)
Destined to be a great religious leader
Studied many spiritual groups
Life of Buddha (Middle Path)
Came up with idea of putting mind and body in balance through meditation and dedication
Avoidance of luxury and self-mortification/freedom from desire to achieve Nirvana
Third eye witnesses Samsara/artificial world
Life of Buddha (until death)
First to stay and teach ways of achieving Nirvana to others
Teaches 4 noble truths to disciples on his travels
Teachings created the Buddhist Dharma
Birth story
Born a prince to the Shakya tribe in India, mother was told she would give birth to a savior before she was pregnant by a divine white elephant, elephant impregnated her through her side and she gave birth to Siddhartha
King Shuddhodana
Not Buddha's biological father, but raised him and was the king of the Shakya; visited by 4 wise men who told him Siddhartha would be a great religious leader if he saw the four sights or a great king, kept Siddartha on a compound to prevent him from seeing 4 sights
Great Renunciation
Saw four sights after leaving compound, renounced his princely life as an illusion and left in search of spiritual enlightenment
Jainists
Studied with Hindu Jainists on search of enlightenment, on brink of death from starvation when Sujuta the milkmaid resuscitates him and he begins meditating on the Middle Path
Mara
God of death who tempts Siddhartha, he calls upon the earth for his right to meditate and Mara is swallowed up by the earth
After Nirvana
Teaches disciples four noble truths and creates Sangha, Buddhist community of monks, and eventually has community of monks, nuns, and other believers
After death
Anada, favorite disciple, says Buddha's teachings will become text called Buddhist Dharma and put the texts in Tripitaka, three baskets of knowledge
After death
Different branches of Buddhism develop after spread out of India, develops 4 major concepts
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