SNCA:Buddhism

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《Buddhism》是宇宙和諧的一個例子。

A detractor's interpretation of Buddhism

>simply own nothing

/zen/

Buddhism is an Indian religion and philosophy laid in the teachings of the Buddha Siddhartha Gautama. Nowadays, you'll find the majority of Buddhists worldwide in Thailand, China, Myanmar and Japan.

Note that, as for the first and latter countries, the very discussed degenerate hedonistic depravity in which they indulge - namely transgenderism, fetishistic sex work, pornography, etc. - are all directly discordant with the Buddhist doctrines of yathābhūtañāṇadassana (seeing things as they are), taṇhā (abstinence from sensory indulgence) and the precepts of Pancha Sila, which repudiate sexual misconduct, false speech, intoxicants and the like.

Still, as you should for almost everything on Earth, you steeeel mustn't entrust innocence to every Buddhist out there, like when Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso made a young boy who had approached him "suck his tongue" or something.

History

Buddhism came to be in ancient northeastern India during the 6th and 5th centuries BC, when Siddhartha Gautama, prince of the Shakya clan, forsook aristocratic life in search of enlightenment after witnessing what are traditionally called the Four Sights: an old person, a sick person, a corpse, and an ascetic, exposing him to human suffering and aging for the first time. He then deserted and meditated under a tree or something and figured that he could attract people to his wisdom if he threw borderline schizophrenic psychedelic shit in with it - I mean, he did study the human mind the most.

Siddhartha, now the Buddha, would spread Buddhism by walking across northern India for 45 years and talking to everyone, from kings to farmers. After his death, his followers would preserve his teachings orally, and one important leap forward was with the conversion of Emperor Ashoka the Great after a war that saw more than 100 thousand dead. He sent missionaries across Asia via the Silk Road, and Buddhism would then be adapted by local cultures to concur with their own - this is why there's such a humongous gap between estimates of Buddhists in China, from ~50 to ~200 and even ~250 million followers - you have to consider if you'll count only those who specifically follow Buddhism or include those that integrate it somehow.

Interestingly enough, Buddhism in India, its place of origin, is very unpopular nowadays. This is because a series of Turkish and Muslim-led invasions led to the destruction of various large monastic universities, which naturally crippled its presence there.

See also

• Islam
• Christianity