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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Fourth Plain Village WA
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Originally Posted by Liebling:-)))
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I hope you don't mind if I take your post to here so that I can answer your question, while Kurifje75 already answer most of your question, but I want to answer your question too 
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Originally Posted by Liebling:-)))
Good thread here. I know a little about Buddhism but I would like to learn something more about them. I’m a neutral person and like to collect every belief. I would like to ask you some questions in my post. I hope my question is okay with you.  |
Learning always fun
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I hope you share your knowledge here with us why they are not allowing etc. Why they have different belief etc. Let me tell you what I know.
My German hubby saw Indians shopping and saris for a first time in 1983 when he was in England to visit me. It fascinates him.
I was raised in England to involve with Indians, Chinese, etc and went school with them & also work together with them, too. I learn their interesting culture and meet their families etc – their mothers wear sari and fathers wear tiara (sp) – I remember they are not allow to cut their hair off. The parents choose husband or wife to marry their children. They explained us what the God status with 8 arms is… work, living, sense, ??? I can’t remember any further… I wish to turn clock back to learn MORE about their belief. I was young, that’s time until we visited Singapore… Oh my God… Its fantastic culture which different than I know them in England. I know now it’s Buddha belief…
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I am afraid it's not Buddhism... It's Hinduism. There are lot of Buddhism monks had bald head, they shave all hairs off because they represent it as leaving out of the confuse.
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I remember when we visited Little India near Chinatown in Singapore in 2000. Indian culture fascinates us due their beautiful colors, etc. I love to see people wear sari. It fascinates me.
We visited 2 Hindu Temples. We saw Buddha statue there.
If we want go in temples then we have to remove our shoes and leave them outside… I remember the note telling us those women who have monthly cycle is not allowed to go in the temple…Why?
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Again, that's not Buddhism, that's Hinduism. You might be surprised, Siddhartha Gautama are also one of Hinduism's multi-gods.
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Gautama Buddha is mentioned as an Avatar of Vishnu in the Puranic texts of Hinduism.[1] In the Bhagavata Purana he is twenty fourth of twenty five avatars, prefiguring a forthcoming final incarnation. A number of Hindu traditions portray Buddha as the most recent of ten principal avatars, known as the "Dasavatara" (Ten Incarnations of God).
Siddhartha Gautama's teachings deny the authority of the Vedas and consequently [at least atheistic] Buddhism is generally viewed as a nāstika school (heterodox, literally "It is not so"[2]) from the perspective of orthodox Hinduism.
However, while He was against the authority of the Vedas, he might not have been against the Vedas themself. Buddhist scholar Rahula Vipola wrote that the Buddha was trying to shed the true meaning of the Vedas. Buddha is said to be a knower of the Veda (vedajña) or of the Vedanta (vedântajña) (Sa.myutta, i. 168) and (Sutta Nipâta, 463).
Gautama Buddha in religions other than Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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But myself, personally, don't believe Buddha was a god like Hinduism.
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I must tell you that Singapore is unforgettable and amazing culture especially temples. It’s sad to tell you that a short vacation (one week) in Singapore is not enough because their culture is fantastic and much to see. We would love to go Singapore again in the future. My children are heartbreak to leave Singapore… They are still talking about Singapore. It look like that Culture of Singapore fascinates them. I have to agree with them. We would LOVE to go Thailand one day since my hubby described us how fantastic temples where he went there before we met and married.
We saw Chinese temple in Kusu Island, Temple of 1,000 lights – 15 meter high figure of Buddha surrounded by chains of light and Merlin Statue, Dragon temple etc in Sentosa Island.
Why are the Dragons important to Buddhism? What special about them? It look like that they don’t believe Jesus? Right?
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Believe it or not, Buddhism might believe Jesus do exist and we might see him as other "Buddha". We are much less "Anti-Christ" than you might thought.
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Traditionally, Buddhists as a group take no particular view on Jesus. However, recent historical findings and greater availability of translated Buddhist texts indicate possible influence on many of the major teachings of Jesus in the New Testament. Scholars have always noted the great many similarities between the life and teachings of Gautam Buddha and Jesus. These similarities might be attributed to Buddhist missionaries sent as early as Emperor Ashoka around 250 B.C.E. in many of the Greek Seleucid kingdoms that existed then and then later became the same regions that Christianity began. [13] To the extent that Buddhists and Christians were exposed to each other, individual Buddhists may have had positive or negative impressions of Jesus depending on their individual inclinations. In the modern era, as Buddhist-Christian contact increased dramatically (the Dalai Lama and the Pope have met frequently in the past decade), several Buddhist writers have tried to come to grips with the concept of Jesus. Some have gone so far as to describe him as a bodhisattva, a being committed to the redemption of all life.[citation needed] Specifically, comparisons are sometimes drawn between Jesus and Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion. Others see parallels between Avalokiteśvara (who is sometimes portrayed as male and sometimes as female) and the Virgin Mary.
Religious perspectives on Jesus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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One thing I’m disagreeing is the parents choose husband and wife to marry their children. I remember to receive the story from my German friend who visits India years ago. He met deaf Indian couple and become good friend with them. He got them to tell him the story. Their parents disapproved their love and choose hearing partners to marry them. Their love is stronger and runaway together from their parents to start new life. They married with bless from neutral priest and produced a baby girl together.
We met deaf Singaporean who set his own photo business in Singapore. We talked little about Buddha… He said that he & his wife are very lucky to have their parents who let them to choose their partner they want to marry. Their parents bless their children’s wish. They are happily married and have a baby boy.
Tell me what you think?
Why the parents choose the partners to marry their children?
Honestly I wish to believe reincarnation but I still have my doubt either it’s really true or not like what I say about bible in other thread.
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Being really honestly, I think you misunderstood this by Hinduism because Buddhism don't require parents to choose which one to marry their children. Big example are many countries in East and Southeast Asia where millions of people are Buddhist there, they don't require parents to choose who to marry their children.
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While Buddhism neither encourages nor discourages marriage, it does offer some guidelines for it. While Buddhist practice varies considerably among its various schools, marriage is one of the few concepts specifically mentioned in the context of Sila (Buddhist behavior discipline). The fundamental code of Buddhist ethics, the Pancasila (or five precepts), contains an admonishment of sexual misconduct, though what constitutes such misconduct from a Buddhist perspective varies widely depending on the local culture.
The Digha Nikaya 31 (Sigalovada Sutta) describes the respect that one is expected to give to one's spouse.
Buddhist view of marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I personally, believe the marriage is not a BIG necessary.
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Something about reincarnation and Karma, I would like to ask you bit more. I saw the document about Dalai Lama on the TV last year. I witness kind of life they lead. I NEVER forget what I saw with my own eyes is Tibetans belief (they are part of Buddhist lamas).
They don’t believe funeral and cremation. The men cut corpse off and give them to vultures to eat. When it’s over then the corpse remains were remove for bones. I remember to see the women wash to rid of flesh to clean corpse’s bones and then crash/stomp them with a large rock to make them into powder. I don’t know why they need corpse’s bones for. All what I saw is they throw flesh remains again to birds eat after finish with bones and “decorate” part of bones in their room. This is a point of Buddhist’s view. Is it something do with Karma or reincarnation? I remember Dali’s explanation that he rather to enter corpses, flesh, bones etc to keep their own personalities and memories. What’s that? Is it Karma what he mean? Why they don’t believe funeral, cremation, organ donation?
Karma mean is give something away and then return something back to me. Right? Example: I donate money to orphan homes then I get something nice in return. Correct? I tried to study what Karma is. If I steal money and then get something bad in return. Correct? If yes, then yes, I beleive Karma.
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Karma are one of our famous beliefs, it's not uncommon About the reincarination, yes we do believe in reincarination, but for myself, I don't actually believe in it, just have the faith for it that's all.
Also about the funeral you talked about the Tibetan Buddhism, well that is Tibetan Buddhism, their kind of Buddhism are different than many of Buddhism and myself had pretty less knowledge about Tibetan Buddhism because I am more Theravada Buddhism which are alittle similar to Mahayana Buddhism, but anyway, I believe there are most Buddhists do funeral, example, Shinto Buddhism, a family tend to create their own little temple with the picture of a person who died, having the incesne around inside the temple, also the candles, etc.
I found some good link for you to read, this one are about Japan (Mahayana Buddhism) and Tibetan Buddhism.
Buddhist Ceremonies and Funeral Rites for the Dead
This one explain about my Theravada Buddhism, including other Buddhisms.
Rituals in Buddhism: Buddhist Funeral Rites
Also about the little temple in Shinto Buddhism (Japan's Buddhism) I talked about, I seems can't find picture for that kind of temple, but if you watch Japanese's movies, especially those scary movies, you usually will notice there's a small temple for a person who died inside the house. A movie I would recommend, Ju-On which have the part when a dead people come out of that little temple to attack a teenager girl till the final of that part, a dead girl grab the teenager girl into the small temple and disappeared.
Anyway, by the way, thank you for sharing your experience around Southeast Asia! It make me really want to go there!
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