大吉利事. Sneezing in Southern Chinese culture means that someone is speaking ill behind your back. meaning: “A great fortunate occurrence.”

“Thank you”, literally means “I wish God will bless you”. Chinese speakers do not typically comment on another person’s sneeze. When someone does give a response, he or she might say 百岁 (bǎisuì).

Gesundheit was borrowed from German, where it literally means “health”; it was formed by a combination of gesund (“healthy”) and -heit (“-hood”). Wishing a person good health when they sneezed was traditionally believed to forestall the illness that a sneeze often portends.

To return a greeting, say “阿弥陀佛” (Ēmítuófó, Amitabha) on all occasions and it will almost never go wrong; it show s humility. Amitabha was a bodhisattva’s name, but in daily conversations, it just means “Buddha bless you” and indicates politeness. It can also be used as an exclamation, similar to “Oh my god!”

There is no unified language in Buddhism. Every country has their own version of “Oh My God”, “Praise to the God” etc. The most ancient one is “Namo Buddhaya”, which means “Homage to the Buddha”.

Religious expressions are private prayers or chants to oneself in quiet whisper and contemplation – usually the standard chant is ‘Namo Amitabha Buddha’ or ‘Guanyin Bodhisattva, (please, your) protection, protection! ‘

There are a few different ways to greet someone in Buddhism. Probably the most universal way is to say “Namo Buddhaya” (“A bow to the Buddha”). Pure Land Buddhists might prefer to say “Namo ‘Mitabhaya” (“A bow to Amitabha”). Or you can say “hello” in your own language.

Amitabha, (Sanskrit: “Infinite Light”) also called Amitayus (“Infinite Life”), Japanese Amida, Chinese Emituo Fo, in Mahayana Buddhism, and particularly in the so-called Pure Land sects, the great saviour buddha. …

Amitābha (Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐmɪˈtaːbʱɐ]), also known as Amida or Amitāyus, is a celestial buddha according to the scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism. Amitābha means “Infinite Light”, and Amitāyus means “Infinite Life” so Amitābha is also called “The Buddha of Immeasurable Light and Life”.

Namaste is a Sanskrit greeting, literally meaning, “i offer my respect to you”. It has nothing to do with sectarian religious identifications, but it certainly is a dharmik form of greeting.

Buddhism Beliefs Followers of Buddhism don’t acknowledge a supreme god or deity. The religion’s founder, Buddha, is considered an extraordinary man, but not a god. The word Buddha means “enlightened.” The path to enlightenment is attained by utilizing morality, meditation and wisdom.

If atheism is the absence of belief in a God or gods, then many Buddhists are, indeed, atheists. Buddhism is not about either believing or not believing in God or gods. For this reason, Buddhism is more accurately called nontheistic rather than atheistic.

Theism is Incompatible with Buddha’s Teachings Unlike people of other faiths, Buddhists believe neither in a creator God nor in a personal God entitled to their obedience. Consequently, Buddhism does not derive its system of ethics from any divine authority, but from the teachings of Gautama Buddha.

Some high level Buddhists have drawn analogies between Jesus and Buddhism, e.g. in 2001 the Dalai Lama stated that “Jesus Christ also lived previous lives”, and added that “So, you see, he reached a high state, either as a Bodhisattva, or an enlightened person, through Buddhist practice or something like that.” Thich …

Buddhists seek to reach a state of nirvana, following the path of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, who went on a quest for Enlightenment around the sixth century BC. There is no belief in a personal god. Buddhists believe that nothing is fixed or permanent and that change is always possible.

Devadatta then tried to kill the Buddha himself by throwing a rock at him from on high, while the Buddha was walking on the slopes of a mountain. As this also failed he decided to have the elephant Nāḷāgiri intoxicated and let him loose on the Buddha while he was on almsround.

There are five sins of this kind: killing one’s mother, killing one’s father, killing an arhat (saint), injuring the body of a buddha, and causing a division in the Buddhist community.

According to the Mahāyāna Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, a Mahayana sutra giving Gautama Buddha’s final teachings, the Buddha insisted that his followers should not eat any kind of meat or fish. Even vegetarian food that has been touched by meat should be washed before being eaten.

He tried three times to murder the Buddha, but each time the plot failed, although on one occasion the Buddha was seriously injured. Even after Devadatta had tried to kill the Buddha, the Buddha forgave him.

Nanda

Siddhartha

Devadatta, (flourished 6th century bce, India), Buddhist monk who sought to reform the sangha (monastic community) by imposing upon it a stricter code of life. He was a cousin of the Buddha.

1 : the final beatitude (see beatitude sense 1a) that transcends suffering, karma, and samsara and is sought especially in Buddhism through the extinction of desire and individual consciousness.

Yaśodharā was the daughter of King Suppabuddha, and Amita, sister of the Buddha’s father, King Śuddhodana. She was wedded to her cousin, the Shakya prince Siddhartha, when they were both 16.

Lumbini Province, Nepal

Answer. Explanation: Buddhists seek to reach a state of nirvana, following the path of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, who went on a quest for Enlightenment around the sixth century BC. There is no belief in a personal god.

The Four Noble Truths comprise the essence of Buddha’s teachings, though they leave much left unexplained. They are the truth of suffering, the truth of the cause of suffering, the truth of the end of suffering, and the truth of the path that leads to the end of suffering.

In the Vaishnavism sect of Hinduism, the historic Buddha or Gautama Buddha, is the ninth avatar among the ten major avatars of the god Vishnu. In contemporary Hinduism the Buddha is revered by Hindus who usually consider “Buddhism to be another form of Hinduism”.