(1) What is a human being?
(2) Why were we born as human being?
(3) What is the purpose of our lives?
We can find the solution in the teachins of Lord Buddha which is the essence of Buddhism.
What is Buddhism?
Buddhism is the teachings of Lord Buddha, just as Christianity is the teachings of Jesus Christ and Islam is the teaching of Mohammed.
But there is one major feature that is unique to Buddhism, and this that those who learn Buddhism can also become Buddhas.
In Christianity, Judaism and Islam, behaver recommend to learn the teachings of the founder and to devote themselves to a unique, absolute God.
But human beings cannot become a God.
However, in Buddhism, by learning the teachings of the Buddha, and enlightening the truth about the universe and human beings,
everyone is able to become a buddha.
Hence finally Buddhism is everyone's attempting to become such a buddha.
Born of Lord Buddha
According to one tradition, Lord Buddha was born in India in 463 B.C. and died at the age of eighty.
Whatever the detaikls, it can be said that that Lord Buddha was active some 2,400 years ago, approximately 400 years before Christ.
In the region where present-day Traial in Nepal borders on India, there was at that time a state ruled by the Sakya Tribe. Lord Buddha was the son of the tribal chief and therefore a prince.
The Chinese called this tribe Shaka in Chinese characters, and that custom has been followed by the Japanese people.
He was the only son of King Suddhodana and Queen Maya. Since he was nameed Siddhartha and his father's surname was Gautama Siddartha.
最終更新：2012年04月30日 22:00
