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Ben Ramsey
Buddhist Thought
Professor Kerin
February 27, 2001

Protestant vs. Socially Engaged Buddhism


Somewhere in the sixth century BCE Buddhism was born, born from a single man Siddhartha Guatama, the Buddha. After gaining his enlightenment under the Bodhi tree, the Buddha didn't think that the rest of the world could handle all that he had learned. He did not want to teach others, nor did he want to spread his wisdom. Until at last his great compassion came over him and he started to gain the respect of few by going to his old peers first. By starting with other intellectuals he secured that they at least had the capacity to learn what he had to teach. From this point on he spread his philosophy on the middle path with everyone who would listen.
He preached pacifism and that it was wrong to take any life be it a man's or any lesser being's. He taught that the noble eightfold path was the route to end all suffering, and that the individual was the most......

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