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Please help with the following questions, I need to know the following information about Daoism, Confucianism, Buddism, and Hinduism. 1.Their Historical figures and events, 2. Central belief, 3. Nature of God, 4. Ethics and morality, 5. Ritual and practice, {sacred elements and their meaning}
I will be very grateful for quick answers. Thanks in advance
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I’ll answer Buddhism:
1) Buddha - Buddha was merely a man and NOT a God - he is NOT worshipped. He is respected, much like shaking someones hand (hence the bowing). Buddha was a prince and had it all but left the palace to pursue truth - the story goes he attained enlightenment under the Bodhi tree.
2) Central belief is this - NO BELIEF
3) God is going to be a subjective term. God would be emptiness but what is emptiness? Don’t know (Buddhist answer, don’t know) - Really, there are no Gods in Buddhism, God is a word seldom used unless to relate to other religions. God is a ‘belief’ and there are no ‘beliefs’
4) Morality and ethics is live for everyone - does a decision benefit just you or everyone? Live for everyone
5) Ritual and Practice - Mainly, Meditation is the core.
I’ve got Confucianism
1. Mostly ancient kings and conversations, no miracles or special appearance.
2. People must stay on the middle way or the mean. It references the superior and inferior man as opposed good and evil.
3. The Lord on high, God should be worshipped, doesn’t go into many detials about God.
4. Loaded with ethics and morality. The two main ones are order and respect of elders
1) Confucianism: Confucius, Taoism(Daoism):Lao Tzu, Buddhism: The Buddha, Hinduism: Krishna(though neither Krishna or any other figure is considered the founder of Hinduism).
2)Confucianism: Man’s relationship with his fellow man, Taoism: Man’s relationship with nature, Buddhism: elimination of suffering by complete detachment of the world, Hinduism: Being coming one with the Brahmam.
3)Confucianism: Heaven, aka Ti’en, Taoism: numerous gods, Buddhism: numerous Buddhas Bodhisatvas, or enlightened beings, Hinduism: God is in everything; everything is God.
4)The Golden Rule applies to all religions.
5)Meditation, Exercise, veneration of ancestors is sacred to all these.
Sure, why not…I’ll take Taoism (pronounced Dowism)
1. Lao Tzu (who may not have actually existed) is said to have written the Tao Te Ching, the Book of the Way, which is arguably the most notable of Taoist writings (except perhaps the I Ching). He is said to have written it as a response to the guard at the gate when he was about to leave China. The guard begged him to pass on his knowledge before he left.
2. The Tao means The Way of Heaven, or simply The Way. It is the belief that there is a natural order to things, and that to find peace, one should flow with the way, rather than try to resist it. It’s about surrendering to the way of heaven, dropping that which causes resistance. With the Tao, every day something is dropped, reads the Tao Te Ching.
3. God doesn’t fit neatly in this religion. I’d say that Heaven’s Way and God are nearly synonymous. Taoists do not pray to the Tao, however. It is more impersonal than the Christian God.
4. That which opposes the Way should not be done. Murder, for example, is not heaven’s way.
5. Ritual is the husk of faith, says the Tao Te Ching. Ritual isn’t important in itself–it’s only important if it has meaning to the person doing the ritual. I can’t think of any Taoist rituals, but some Taoists also practice ancestor worship and such. That’s incidental to Taoism though.
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