History of the Development of Buddhism in Indonesia (Complete)

History of the Development of Buddhism in Indonesia (Complete) – The background of the birth of Buddhism is due to several factors whose development has become a history, where the history of the development of Hindu-Buddhist religion spread in Indonesia.

Buddhism is one of the religions in Indonesia, Buddhism is a religion that worships the gods as the god of its people who embraced Buddhism. Buddhists pray in temples to worship gods who are believed to be the gods of Buddhists.

History of the Development of Buddhism in Indonesia (Complete)

For more details about knowing how the history of Buddhism will be explained as follows.

History of Buddhism

Initially, Buddhism was not a religion but had the meaning of worshiping and worshiping gods as their gods. The goal of Buddhism is to free people from samsara or misery.

And then the teachings are believed to be Buddhism by its adherents. Buddhism, which was born in India, was first taught by a prince named Sidharta Gautama.

He was the son of King Sudhodana who came from the Kosala kingdom in Kapilawastu. Where Siddhartha did not like luxury, then he left the palace and then he went to the forest in Bodh Gaya to do penance.

He performed his penance under a tree and finally attained perfect Bohdi or Enlightenment. And then the tree is known as the bodhi tree. The incident occurred in 531 BC when the age of Prince Siddhartha Gautama was 35 years. After obtaining bodhi prince Siddhartha Gautama was known as the Buddha or the shining one.

And from that moment the Buddha began to teach his religion to escape from samsara or misery. This is a form of the Buddha's compassion for society and humanity. Humans are forbidden to live in luxury because it can be part of a lust.

It can be concluded that the essence of Buddhist teachings is that humans live in a state of samsara (suffering or suffering). Therefore every human being is obliged to escape from misery by using the way of running the astavida or the eight paths of truth, for more details, let us discuss below.

Astavida or the Eight Paths of Truth

1. Right view or (Knowledge)
2. The right intention or (attitude or interest)
3. Have the right words
4. Right action or (behavior)
5. Right Livelihood or (Livelihood)
6. Right effort or (Effort)
7. Attention or (Devotional) right
8. Right Samadi or (Concentration of Mind)

Buddhism has a holy book as a guide in praying for the people who embrace Buddhism which is in the holy book it has three parts, what are the three parts of the Buddhist scriptures for more details let's discuss below this.

Buddhist Scriptures

1. Winayapitaka which contains the laws of Buddhism
2. The Sutrantapitaka containing the discourses of the Buddha
3. Abhidarmapitaka which contains information and explanations about religion

Buddhism also does not pursue the existence of divisions and also differences in the structure of society. So in Buddhism there is no caste division.

Buddhism in its development then split into two schools, what are the schools, let's discuss together as follows.

1. Mahayana Buddha Or Great Kingdom

According to the school of Mahayana Buddhism, humans can reach heaven by using Bodhisattva intermediaries. Bodhisattvas are humans who have attained the status of a buddha, but delaying it to return to the world helps to help humans to reach nirvana or heaven.

2. Hinayana Buddha or Small Vehicle

The school of Hinayana Buddhism has the opinion that the effort to reach heaven can only be done by an individual human being.

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