Religious Section 宗教篇

Part Six 第六部分

Buddha 佛（佛陀的簡稱） (Sanskrit 梵文; The Enlightened 覺者)

《中国文化集锦》
A Collection of Choice Specimens from Chinese Culture

英语七十载厚重岁月情缘
Seventy Years of Deep Affection of Knowledge about the English Language

Variety is the spice of life. 生活需要多姿多彩。/ 丰富多彩是生活的调味品。

With utter devotion to the country and without any thought of oneself.
心有大我，至诚报国。

There is no shortage of hard-working people in the world, but of those who work hard to the end. 世上从不缺少努力的人，缺的是努力到底的人！

Take actions when the right time comes, flourish and forge ahead across the land. 该出手时就出手，红红火火闯九州。

The true meaning of life lies in the fact that: To be an upright person dependably, to handle affairs seriously. 生命的真谛是：“老老实实做人，踏踏实实做事。”

Life has no standard answers; choose the right road and stay single-minded, keep walking — That’s life at its finest. 生命没有标准答案，选择适合自己的路，认认真真、专心致志地走下去就是最好的人生。

Buddha 佛（佛陀的簡稱） (Sanskrit 梵文; The Enlightened 覺者)

Buddha 佛陀（佛字是“佛陀”的簡稱；佛教徒稱修行圓滿的人），是Buddha的音譯（如果用今天的漢語音譯，應當是“布達”，佛陀的意義是“覺者”或“智者”。） is the one who is perfectly enlightened and has entered Nirvana (in Buddhism, the cessation of individual existence; the attainment of a calm, sinless state of mind achieved by the extinction of passion, a state which can be attained during life). In Mahayana Buddhism 在大乘佛教裏, there are many Buddhas in existence at the same time. Sakyamuni Buddha釋迦牟尼佛, the historical Buddha, is just one of a long line of Buddhas, with Maitreya still to come. The Buddha said that life is but an illusion. Reality only exists in the mind. Men observe appearances and disappearances and call them life and death.
The title given to prince Siddhārtha悉達多 or Gautama 喬達摩 (c. 565 BC- 486 BC), the founder of Buddhism佛教創始人; also called Sakyamuni釋迦牟尼 from the name of his tribe, the Sakyas釋迦族.
釋迦牟尼Sakyamuni 姓喬答摩，名悉達多，釋迦族人（釋迦牟尼意即“釋迦族的聖人”） 。他是古印度北部迦毗羅衛國（今尼泊爾境內）淨飯王之子。其生卒年代， 北傳佛教據漢譯《善見律毗婆娑》“出律記”推斷為西元前565-前485，南傳佛教則作西元前624-前544或西元前624-前544。相傳他二十九歲時痛感人世生、老、病、死、各種苦惱，又不滿當時婆羅門的神全統治及其梵天創世說教，捨棄王族生活，出家修道，遍訪名師。經過六年苦行，悟到苦行不能達到解脫，後到菩提伽耶，在菩提樹下靜思“成道”，得世間無常和緣起諸理，即在鹿野苑開始傳教，為阿若憍陳如等五人說苦、集、滅、道“四諦”以及“八正道”等。他八十歲時，在拘屍那城附近的婆羅雙樹下入滅，弟子們將他一生所說的教法記錄整理，通過幾次集會，成為經、律、論“三藏”。隨著傳播範圍的擴大，佛教逐漸形成世界性的宗教。