3. Top 10 Countries with the
Highest Proportion of Buddhists
Country Percent
Thailand 95
Cambodia 90
Myanmar 88
Bhutan 75
Sri Lanka 70
Country Percent
Tibet 65
Laos 60
Vietnam 55
Japan 50
Macau 45
-Approximately 376 million people are Buddhists
-4th Largest of religions
4. Origins
developed in India 2500 years ago
based on many of the core concepts of Hinduism
essence of Buddhism is the attainment of
enlightenment
points to a way of life that avoids self-indulgence
and self-denial.
no supreme god or deity in Buddhism
5. Divisions of Buddhism
Theravada Buddhism - found in Burma, Thailand,
Sri Lanka, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar & in part,
Indonesia, Vietnam & Malaysia.
Mahayana Buddhism - found in China, Japan,
Korea and Vietnam.
Vajrayana Buddhism - found in Tibet, Nepal,
Sikkim, Bhutan and Mongolia
Jodo Shin Buddhism or Pure Land Buddhism -
mainly from India, Japan
Zen Buddhism - mostly in Japan
6. Who is the main god of
Buddhism?
There are no gods, even
Buddha himself
8. • He was born 2500 years ago
in Lumbini Nepal.
• He was a son of the king in
northern India and had a
wonderful and luxurious
childhood
• He wanted to know how the
rest of the world lived. He
went to a nearby village and
found poor, and sick people
• He was horrified, could not
enjoy castle life any longer
• Siddharta left the palace,
leaving behind family.
• He cut off his hair, gave all the
jewels to a servant who took
him there
9. • He left his servant and became a
poor holy person.
• At 29 he rejected
his luxurious life to
seek enlightenment
and the source of
suffering.
• He lived ascetic life for 6 yrs.
• Lived in forests, slept on beds of
thorn, almost underfeed.
• He did yoga like exercises that were
supposed to help find the truth and
he found nirvana and became “The
Enlightened One,” at Po tree when
he was 35 years old.
10. The Buddha was not a god or a legend.
He was an amazing person that went out to
seek the truth. By the time, Buddha
traveled to many country and gave
missions about successful life. Then at 80
years old the Buddha died in kushinagara,
India.
11. Various
The Buddhist people have many
elaborate rituals and worship traditions,
including those for everyday worship, birth,
death, and many more. For example, death
believed to be natural result of being born
.Body always kept in house for 3-7 days and
will be blessed by a nun or monk. Body is
burned to let the spirit escape.
12. What is the term for the state of
“Perfect Peace?”
13. Symbols of Buddhism
• Wheel of Life: represents the endless cycle
of life through reincarnation. Each of its
eight spokes represents one of the
teachings of the Eightfold Path.
• Lotus Flower: symbolizes purity and divine
birth.
15. Main Philosophy
Karma - the law that every cause has an effect, i.e.,
our actions have results. This explains a number of
things: inequality in the world, why some are born
handicapped and some gifted, why some live only a
short life.
Buddhists believe that our are past actions have an
effect on who or what we are in our next life.
17. Regular Worship
In most Buddhist houses, has a special room in the
house for a shrine
- a Buddha Statue, candles, incense.
Many Buddhists meditate
-allows mind to settle
- helps to achieve calmness and clarity
Can worship at home or at a Buddhist temple
18. Dietary law of Buddhism =Vegetarianism
-The Buddhist philosophy is a teaching where minimal
harm is made on the environment and compassion for
all life is significant. Buddha was not strictly a
vegetarian, and was, overall, a pragmatic man.
-The last meal of the Buddha, which is said to have
hastened his death, was a meal of tainted pork, so he
certainly ate meals with meat.
-Many Buddhists today eat only vegetarian foods, and
most groups will instruct on a healthy vegetarian diet.
19. -The Buddhists are vegetarian. They can eat all
of vegetable except big meat
-For the monk mustn't eat meat of elephant,
horses, lion, tiger, leopard, yellow tiger, bear,
dog, snake, and human flesh.
-The monk only eat one meal between 6 am to
12 am. They don’t eat after 12 am except
drinking water
20. Buddhist Beliefs
The Buddhist people are very devoted
to their religion. They believe that the
world is imperfect and that they can
fix it by achieving Nirvana. They also
believe in many other things such as
the philosophy Karma.
21. Main beliefs
They do not believe in god
They believe that by following the teachings of
the Buddha they will find peace
The Buddha found ways to overcome the
imperfectness
They meditate
They believe that the Buddha was human The
union with the ultimate spiritual reality.
Escape from the cycle of rebirth
22. Practices of Buddhism
1. Live by this moral code:
Do not take the life of anything living
Do not take anything not freely given
Abstain from sexual misconduct and sensual
overindulgence
Refrain from untrue speech
Avoid intoxication .Do not lose mindfulness
2. Meditation:
training the mind to empty it all of thoughts. When
this happens what is important comes clear
