Zen Buddhism/Tibet Buddhism

By: Austin Spurry

Buddhism

• Buddhism is a religion.

• The goal of Buddhism is to reach enlightenment witch is called Nirvana.

• The way to reach Nirvana is to flow the eightfold path.

Buddhism

Zen Buddhism • In 18th-century Japan, there were perhaps

hundreds of schools of truth within Buddhism.• • Zen and the various so-called Amida Pureland

sects held that single invocations of religious formulaic chants were sufficient for salvation.

• • Perhaps 70 to 80 percent of those who

professed to be Buddhists at the time were adherents of Pureland Buddhism.

• • The religions of 18th-century Japan were

somewhat chaotically fused together, without ever really losing their individual characteristics

Tibet Buddhism • Has the Dali Lama to flow• In 1954, he went to Beijing for peace talks with

Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders, including Deng Xiaoping and Chou Enlai.

• But finally, in 1959, with the brutal suppression

of the Tibetan national uprising in Lhasa by Chinese troops, His Holiness was forced to escape into exile.

• Since then he has been living in Dharamsala,

northern India, the seat of the Tibetan political administration in exile.

• Since the Chinese invasion, His Holiness has

appealed to the United Nations on the question of Tibet.

Tibet Buddhism

• The Dali lama was given this village called Donsawla.

• After the Chinese occupied his home land in Tibet 46 years ago.

• The flags are ment to bring harmony good fortune. • The monks spin wheels for pars hopping they pars are

hared. • The Dali lama is a very charming and charismatic leader.

Zen Buddhism • The second development of major significance to the religious

world of japan was the founder of Zen Buddhism. • Zen teaching reached China from India in the sixth century. • It was known in Japan during the Nara period. • Zen did not flourish until the monk Eisai founded the Rinzai school

of Zen in 1191. • Was a Tendai priest who first studied Buddhism in the

monasteries on Mount Hiei.

Tibet Buddhism

• He is to be said the 14th reincarnation the heavenly daitty of compaction and wisdom.

• About 14 million Buddus believe he is a living god.

• People refer to him in deep respect as his holiness. • The Dali Lama does not refer to himself as a god but as a

teacher. • The Dali lama is 70 years old

Zen Buddhism

• Indian teacher Bobhidharma in the sixth century. • Dogen ( 1200-1253), established a second school of Zen

which he named the Soto sect. • The Zen school of Buddhism, sometimes called the “ school

of Buddha’s mind,” is entirely different from any of the other schools to be found in Japan.

• And personal effort to understand the meaning of the

universe have no place in Zen.

Tibet Buddhism • Every year the Dali lama presides over two weeks of teaching about Buddhism.• • The dali lama is would formost scallor and is very complex faith.• • Buddies do not believe in god at lest not as the way Christine’s do • But they do believe in some kind of heaven.• • Buddus believe in 6 type of heaven and 6 type’s of hell. • • The Buddus look at heaven as a happy wonderful place very peaceful.• • But that is were Christine’s and Buddus disagree on what they think of heaven.• • Buddus believe that after we die we are born again, again and a again.•

Zen Buddhism

• There is there fore no dependence on scriptures sacred writing, or

sermons the “ truth” of Zen must be transmitted through spiritual telepathy.

• Which his mind becomes a holy vacancy he absorbs the universe

into himself.

• Only then can he transcend the vicissitudes of life, detach himself concern for personal gain or pleasure.

• Self-intoxication are characteristic of Zen.

Tibet Buddhism • They think the better you are in your next life that better you will be in

the life to come.

• If you are a bad person you come back as an animal. • If you are a good person you could come back as a very good person.

• The 14th was born in a cow shed and was found by a search party of monks

• He was born right after the last dali lama died. • After passing the batorey of test 3 year old Tenzin Gyatso was

porclamed to be the reincarnated Dali lama.

Zen Buddhism

• Zen monks introduced form China the teachings of Shushi a Chinese Confucian philosopher of the twelfth century, which, in the seventeenth century, became the foundation of Bushido, “ the way of the warrior”.

• In the seventeenth century, a new branch of Zen called

the Obaku Sect was introduced from China. • Zen Contributed mach to the architecture, literature,

painting, manners, dramas, and dancing of Japan.

Tibet Buddhism • Tenzin and his family move to the patal palis in lasa, tabets capautal

city. • Buddus believe in heaven but they call it nervana. • A state of all knowing contentment. • The Dali lama is not in lighted.

• If he was in lighted he would remmber every thing. • Before the dali lama of today no other has ventured out side of tabetan.

Zen Buddhism

• Today Zen has nearly 9,000,000 followers and is a powerful force in Japanese religious life.

Zen Buddhism• Obaku sect.

• Obaku is a small scet which falls under the category of Zen Buddhism but which, in its teachings and practices, has elements foreign to the other schools of Zen.

• Obaku was founded by a Chinese priest named Ingen (1592-1673). • It is unique among the Zen sects also in that it uses the works of its founder, Ingen. • It stresses the immanence of the Buddha Amida in the human mind.

• It is a scholarly scet and has contributed much in the way of research in Chinese classics. • It has 516 temples, 837 priests, and 117,224 adherents.

Bunce, William .K. Religion in Japan, “ Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity.

• Copy right in Tokyo-Japan 1955.

Tibet Buddhism

• Becoming a simble of nonvilens of simble of confession.• • In 2003 65,000 people in backed in to sentral park to

here his message of compation.• • The perpiss of life is to be happy.• • The Dali lama think at looking at the world today that

we are closer to heaven then to hell.•

Zen Buddhism

• Soto Sect.• is the most active and influential branch of Zen Buddhism. • It is constantly engaged in social welfare work. • Development of enlightenment and employs book learning

as an aid to silent meditation. • The headquarters of this sect is in Tokyo and it owns 14,895

temples, has 31,084 priests, and claims 6,408,622 adherents.

Internet/Book Research Sources

• You-Tube. His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Interview with Diane Sawyer, ABC World News. ABC 20 April,2007

• Book. Bunce, William .K. Religion in Japan, “ Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity. Copy right in Tokyo-Japan 1955.

• Online. The Dalai Lama Trust 241 East 32nd Street New York, NY 10016 U.S.A. Organization of His Holiness the Dalai Lama's

• Online date base. Salisbury, Joyce E. and Peter Seelig. "Religious Beliefs in Japan: 17th and 18th Centuries." Daily Life through History. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 18 Nov. 2010.