Siddhartha Gautama, the Shakyamuni Buddha

This is just a powerpoint presentation that I did for my humanities class a couple years ago. But I thought I would post it anyway just in case someone found it interesting.

The music is called Zen Garden.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Siddhartha
• Gautama
• Shakyamuni
• Buddha
• Buddhism
• Buddhist
• Hotei

[chairde]

I have to bring you to task about your comments. You assume that most Americans know nothing about The Buddha. Well I am a Vietnam Vet and all Vietnam vets learned about The Buddha and we have seen many monks in their robes. So please do not make broad general statements that are not supported by actual facts. Also any college student who has studied comparative religion knows Siddhartha and his becoming  The Buddha.

[AronRa]

@chairde Thank you for pointing out that every college student who has ever studied comparative religion understands Buddhism -even though most of the students in my comparative religion class still did not. But while you're busy challenging MY 'broad sweeping generalizations', are you seriously suggesting that most Americans have studied comparative religion? Or that most Americans could distinguish Siddhartha from Hotei?

[Yahweigh]

@dubbleplusgood They were 2 seperate points,

1# is the monk dying by suicide through burning to death but still dying while happy, calm, relaxed and not scared.

2# the other is about how a believer of re-incarnation could attempt to abuse the system by commiting rapes ect... Then being good in the next lives.

[Hanahleia]

I can't believe how naive about Buddhism AronRa was before taking upon this endeavor to learn about Buddhism. I mean, that's the basic misconception made by westerners, that "Buddha" refers to that fat smiling guy who's sitting cross-legged with a sort of glazed acceptance. "Buddha" is actually a title given to anyone who "awakens." I wonder how informed AronRa is now about eastern philosophies and religions, and if he's into any Alan Watts or Terence McKenna which I'd recommend for any atheist.

[captaindisguise]

I found the quote from the hindu scripture interesting

Does anyone know if it was written before or after the life of Buddha ?

The interesting part is where it says to "delude the atheists" ? I am an atheist and I completely abhor the boring mindless Abrahamic idealogies. But i have always seen something attractive about Buddhism. I think it is just my fascination with its exotic nature, but if I converted to Buddhism due to this fascination, that would be a delusion as per the Hindu scripture

[TwentythreeFortyTwo]

Sorry if the question was already asked, but, what music is it you are playing in this video and can it be downloaded legally?

[RiverMpls]

This is a very informative video, and I love it! However, there are statues of fat Buddhas in Asia.

[Kocaz69]

@anzwertree Thats not a surprise most Americans are stupid nowadays.

[anzwertree]

I couldn't enen pronounce most of the title before watching the video. And yes... I'm an American

[Kocaz69]

Awesome video, loved it! You been all over the world! o_O~!

[dubbleplusgood]

@Yahweigh I believe you still miss the point. the suicide of self-immolation is not the same as teen-angst depression suicide. Their decision to do such a thing was likely reached at the end of a long, deep examination and contemplation of their feelings, thoughts and the purposes for it.

As for the committing crimes thing, you really miss the mark on that one. Once again, these aren't bubble gum dunderheads telling themselves, hey i can steal stuff or kill someone then come back later...cmon

[dubbleplusgood]

@Yahweigh What's overly supernatural about buddhism vs the religion of the talking snake, the virgin mother and her zombie undead god-child? Regarding the monk, there's a huge difference between harming yourself vs harming others yet you stretched that into something about 'doing what you want' as if the two need be the same. I agree misinformation is dangerous, especially when the person making the flawed claims is unaware it's themselves disseminating that misinfo.