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Goal: Annotate a reading
Explain the Buddha’s teachings
Do now: Retrieve your drawings of the
Buddha, share with your partner
Agenda:
Teachings of Buddha
Annotation guide- annotate reading
HW: Annotate “What did Buddha teach?”
What did Buddha Teach?
4 Noble Truths, 8 Fold Path, Middle Way
“The world is filled with pain and sorrow.
But I have found a serenity that you can
find, too.”
Prince Siddhartha
Four Encounters
Leaving the Palace
Enlightenment - Nirvana
The Buddha’s First Teaching
The Three Jewels of Buddhism
Buddhists take refuge in the
Three Jewels of Buddhism
the Buddha,
the Dharma (the teachings
of the Buddha)
Sangha (the Buddhist
community- including
Buddhist monks and
nuns).
Compassion (karuna)
After reaching Nirvana,
compassion caused the
Buddha to send out his
monks and share the
teachings of the 4 Noble
Truths and 8 Fold Path
"Go forth, monks, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the
world... There are beings whose eyes have little dust on them, who will perish
if they do not hear the teaching. But if they hear the teaching, they will gain
liberation."
What are the 4 Noble
Truths?
1)
Life is suffering
2)
Suffering is caused by desire
3)
There is a way out of suffering
4) A way to end suffering and
experience nirvana (enlightenment)
is to follow the 8 Fold Path
What is the 8 Fold Path?
The way to reach nirvana
Represents the Middle
Way (balance) between
desire and self-denial
How can you reach nirvana?
follow the Middle
Way or the 8 Fold
Path
show compassion
accumulate good
karma over many
lifetimes
Areas of Buddhist Faith
Buddhism Today