BUDDHISM

FOUNDER/HISTORY

• Siddhartha Gautama-Budda
• Dalai Lama

BELIEFS

• The Four Noble Truths
• The Noble Eight-Fold Path
• Reincarnation-birth,life,death,rebirth
• Karma-way your life comes back to you(do good,get good back)
• Nirvana

FOUR NOBLE TRUTHS

• All is suffering (dukkha)
• Suffering is caused by desire/attachment
• If one can eliminate desire then they eliminate suffering
• Follow the Noble Eight-Fold Path

THE NOBLE EIGHT FOLD PATH

• Right understanding
• Right thought
• Right speech
• Right action

THE NOBLE EIGHT FOLD PATH

• Right livelihood
• Right effort
• Right mindfulness
• Right concentration

TEXT (HOLY BOOK)

• Sutras

CELEBRATIONS & SIGNIFICANCE

• O-Bon
• Vesak

LOCATION & POPULATION

• 360 million followers
• Nepal

PLACE OF WORSHIP

• Shrine at home
• Dharma
• Temple
• Stupas & Pagodas

SYMBOL OF BUDDHISM

HINDUISM

FOUNDER/HISTORY

• Started more than 4,000 years ago in the Indus River Valley Civilization
• Divided people into 4 Varnas
• Mohandas Gandhi was a spiritual leader

BELIEFS

• Don't believe in god as a single being and that there is more than one way to believe in god
• Samsara- cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth
• Brahman- everything is apart of
• Worship deities

TEXT (HOLY BOOK)

• Written in Sanskrit
• Vedas

CELEBRATIONS & SIGNNIFICANCE

• Raksha Bandham- celebration of siblings
• Divali- 7 day Festival of Lights (New Year)
• Holi- the return of spring

LOCATION & POPULATION

• About 900 million followers
• India has 80%
• Bangladesh
• Sri Lanka
• Nepal

PLACE OF WORSHIP

• Mandir/Temple
• Puja- prayer
• Shrine at home

SYMBOLS OF HINDUISM