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Shintoism
Confucisum
Buddhism
Daoism
Hinduism
Started In
Founded By
Supreme Being
It Started In
Symbols Related To Buddhism
Practices Include:
taking refuge in the Buddha
Medtiation
Mantras (Sounds With Spiritual Backgrounds)
Mudras (Spiritual Signs Or Gestures
Beliefs
The belief that there is an afterlife and not everything ends with death, that Buddha taught and followed a successful path to nirvana
Goals
Holy Text(s) Of Buddhism
No Supreme Being, Buddha is just a man who reached enlightenment .
6th Century B.C.E.
India
The Goal is to reach Nirvana, and get out of reincarnation and the Caste System
The Tripitaka (Pali Canon), Mahayana Sutras and the Tibetan Book Of the Dead are the major Holy Texts of Buddhism
Siddhartha Gautama
Quote
"The mind is everything. What you think you become." - Siddhartha Gautama
Followed By
Started
6th Century BCE
300-500 Million People
Symbols
Supreme Being / God
N/A
Where did it start?
China
Practices
Taoist immortal Immortality is an important idea in Taoism because all nature is united by Tao, Taoists believe, immortality can be attained.
Belifes
Taoist belief is based on the idea that there is central principle of the Universe, a natural order or a sometimes called a "way of heaven".
Goals
Not exactly goals, It believes in totality. No good, no bad, every thing is required to make the world.
Holy Text
Tao Te Ching
Quote from Laozi, the founder
"Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
Number of Followers
12 Million
Symbols
Tori Gate
Started (When)
6th Century
No god, No holy texts
Started (Where)
Japan
Practices
Practices include divination, spirit possession, and shamanic healing.
Believes
Everything has Kami, spirits (not gods)
Goals
Union with divine spirits (kami)
Quote
"If we keep un-perverted the human heart—which is like unto heaven and received from the earth—that is God." - No founder for shintoism, just a cool quote.
3-4 million followers
Symbols
"Om"
When it started
1500 B.C.
Supreme Being
Hindus believe that there is one true god, the supreme spirit, called Brahman.
Where it started
India
Practices
puja (worship) and recitations, meditation, family-oriented rites of passage, annual festivals, and occasional pilgrimages.
Beliefs
A few of them include: Truth is eternal, Brahman is Truth and Reality. and The Vedas are the ultimate authority.
Goals
Kama, Artha, Dharma and Moksha, with each goal being more important than those before it.
Holy Text
Rigveda, a collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns counted as the holiest of the four religious texts of Hindus, known as the Vedas
Quote
"I believe the only religion consists of having a good heart" - Dalli Lama
900 million people follow the hindu religion
Symbols
When did It start
Supreme Being
551 - 479 BC
N/A
Where did it start
China
Practices
Chinese character, behavior and way of living.
Concepts/belives
Its primary purpose is to achieve harmony, the most important social value.
No leader/founder, series of philosefers. Quote: "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Texts: Analects of Confucius
6,111,056 are part of it
Judaism
Origin
When did it begin?
Father of Judaism
Moses
Holy Book
Basic Belief
Goals
Difference between Jud. and Chris.
Monotheism
Sabbath / Passover
Rabbis
Holy Site in Jerusalem
Symbols
Rank in Religions
About 13 Million people follow it.
The Western Wall is a holy site in Jerusalem for Jews. This was built by Herod the Great as the retaining wall of the Temple Mount complex.
God and Abraham met around 1812 BC in the Middle East. This was was in the Bronze Age.
1812 BC
His name is Father Abraham
He lead the Israelites our of Slavery in Egypt and brought them across the Red Sea to Mount Sinai where Moses received the Ten Commandments .
The holy book is the Torah, which is jewish legal literature .
This means either A. My religion is the only religion that means anything or B. M y religion is the only real religion.
Judaism and Christianity are pretty similar, expect for Jews believe that Jesus is not the Messiah, and Christens believe that Jesus IS the Messiah
There is a God, only one god and that God is to be respected. He created the universe and owns it. The god is spiritual and not physical.
"The aim of Judaism is to bring forth the purpose of all existence"
Sabbath is the Jewish day of Rest, and Passover is a holiday that commemorates the freedom of Israelites from Egypt.
A Rabbi is a jewish scholar or teacher, and usually someone who practices jewish law.
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Resurrection / Easter - This day is a christian holiday celebrating when Jesus rose from the dead after being killed - giving tons of faith to his followers.
Pauls of Taurus - He was a apostle who taught christianity to the early world
Jesus's Teachings - These teachings included The kingdom of heaven is at hand and Take up your cross and follow me - and were giving to his disciples and the other christians
Constantine - He was a Roman Emperor that lived from 306 to 337 AD and was a Christian
New Testament - The Second part of the Bible that covered the life of Jesus and his followers.
Rank in World Religions - #1!
Definitions
Symbol
Main Points
The main points include believing in God, Jesus Christ (the son of god), Hell, Resurrection of christ and the Holy Spirit.
Disciples - These were the personal followers of Jesus during his lifetime
Gospel - This is the teaching of Jesus
Messiah - The savior, sent to deliver. For christianity, this was Jesus.
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