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Original Practicing

Original Practicing. Practiced with meditation, teaching of life, RB, and RS Main beliefs were lives of celibacy. They valued family. They terded toward decentralized congregational worship within a loose doctrinal framework Intellectual, spiritual, and artistic life

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Original Practicing

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  1. Original Practicing • Practiced with meditation, teaching of life, RB, and RS • Main beliefs were lives of celibacy. They valued family. They terded toward decentralized congregational worship within a loose doctrinal framework • Intellectual, spiritual, and artistic life • Questioned the reality of the earthly world and speculated on the existence of other worlds.

  2. Why? • Was used to find peace and escape pain. • To get to a level of Nirvana- a kind of blissful nothingness. • Taught of life rebirth and release were constant with Hindu concepts of Maya, samsata, and moksha.

  3. Modern day Buddhism • Located in almost all countries of the world. • Overall pop. of million buddhists. • Buddhism is no longer an educational system it’s a religion

  4. Would the Buddha Recognize it? • No. • Buddhism has changed a lot in ways of not being only one branch of buddhism but many and it has many idols implanted in it • Buddha didn’t want people to pray to him because he could not hear them he was not a god • Now people do, they bow down and pray to him as if he was.

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