INTRODUCTION OF WORLD RELIGIONS AND BELIEF SYSTEM

Week 12-13 BUDDHISM

III.LEARNING TASK:
A. Give at least 5 teachings and practices in Buddhism that is also practiced in
Christianity.

1. Buddhists may sing the scriptures as well as Christians. The earliest Christians
put their community beliefs in songs, which is why Christian hymnody as a whole
began.
2. Buddhists may leave gifts as a mark of respect and reverence to the Buddha.
They may also include candles, which are a mark of light and wisdom. Christian
also have offerings like flowers and candles.
3. Buddhism and Christianity encourages people to improve their well being and
take a step closer tp what they believe.
4. Buddhism and Christianity follows a set of guidelines for daily life,The
Buddhism has The Five Precepts and Christiany has Commandments.
5. The spirit of compassion, bodhicitta in Sanskrit, is as central to Buddhism as
that of love is to Christianity.

IV.LEARNING TASK
A. Give your understanding of the given by completing the table below.

Terms / Words MEANING

- “Awakened or enlighten one”

1.BUDDHA Also known as Siddharta Gautama,he followed the
example of the religious ascetic,tried different teachers
and disciplines and finally attained enlightenment
through his own means.
-state of fulfillment.
2.NIRVANA

-A record of the words of Buddha,contains the basis of

3. TRIPITAKA teachings of the monks.

-Buddhists believe the sutras are the teachings of

4. SUTRAS Buddha .Mahayana Sutras are scriptures written
several centuries after the time of the Buddha.
-the law of cause and effect.
5. KARMA

- Buddhist monks
6. BHIKKHUS -they follow a strict code of conduct.

-The truths that the Buddha revealed are called

7. DHARMA Dharma. The Buddha’s sermons and teachings pointed
toward the true nature of the universe, what is known
within Buddhism as the Dharma.
- It is the continuous cycle of rebirth.
8.REINCARNATION.