Religions in Asia

• Animism


  Belief that everything in nature has a spirit
• Signs of spirit worship in Asia

  • Offering flowers or fruits, a couple of joss sticks in shrine
• People angered the spirits


  They would bring them hardships
• People pleased the spirits


  The spirits would reward them
• Ceremonies to please the spirits


  Witch doctor appeared, claiming he could hear voices of the spirits and told people what to do and not to do
• Superstition


  Belief in the existence of the supernatural
• Ramakrishna


  A great Hindu teacher
• Ramakrishna claimed that all religions are true, with different paths to the same God
• Hinduism is more than 4000 years old
• Hinduism is the third largest religion in the world
• Hinduism is known as an Indian religion or dharma, a religious and universal order by which its followers abide
• Hinduism is unique in that it's not a single religion but a compilation of many traditions and philosophies
• Basic beliefs of Hindus


  • Rebirth- all living things have a soul, a spiritual part of the human being
  • Karma- what a person will be born in his next birth is his karma
  • Dharma- a set of rules that each person must follow in order to be reborn a better person
• All living things have a soul


  How would you feel about eating the flesh of any animal?
• Brahma


  The creator
• Vishnu


  The preserver
• Shiva


  The destroyer
• Krishna


  A Hindu god

  
• OM


  Sacred sound representing creation, preservation and destruction
• What is caste system in Hinduism?
• Buddhism


  A religion
• The story of Buddha


  1. Prince Siddhartha Gautama, born in 623 B.C.

  2. Married to his cousin

  3. First sight: seeing an old man

  4. Second sight: a sick man

  5. Third sight: a dead man

  6. Fourth sight: a holy man

  7. Renouncing his worldly life: cut off his hair

  8. Fasting to learn about hunger

  9. Breaking his fast

  10. Sitting under a Bodhi tree to meditate, seeing the rays of the sun (finding the truth about the suffering)

  11. Called the Enlightenment

  12. Preaching to everyone he met

  13. Died in 483 B.C. at the age of 80
• Meak Bochea (February) is to honor the birth of Buddhism

  
• Vesak Bochea (April or May) is the birthday and attaining enlightenment of Buddha
• Types of Buddhism


  • Theravada Buddhism: Lesser vehicle practicing in many countries in SEA (Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, etc.)
  • Mahayana Buddhism: practicing by people in East Asia like China, Korea, Japan, etc.

  
• The four noble truths of Buddhism

  • Suffering
  • The cause of suffering
  • The cessation of suffering
  • The path to the cessation of suffering
• What are the eightfold paths of Buddhism?
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