Buddhist Tradition and the Interreligious Dialogue
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Description
Professor Seung Chul Kim gives an introduction to the main principles of Buddhism. Buddhist is the name for one who follows the teaching of Gautama Buddha from the 5th century before the Common Era. What is the teaching of Buddha? It is a teaching of how we human beings could be liberated from suffering. In Buddhism, suffering is the conditio humana, that is, the fundamental condition for all human beings. What is the way to the liberation from such suffering? According to Buddha’s teaching, we could be liberated from suffering when we abandon the attachment to our ego. Buddhism is a way of liberation and enlightenment.
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