Notes on Buddhism (just random)

Buddhism: 1) Hinayana (Sri Lankan, Thailand, Burma, etc.) and 2) Mahayana (Tibet, which has four divisions: Gelung, Nymgma, Kagyu and Sekya)

By the end of 16th century, Geluk had become the most dominant school of Tibetan Buddhism, amidst strife amongst sects of Buddhism, (and particularly the forcible converting to Gelug of the Jonang branch of the Sakya school), and from the period of “The Great Fifth” in the 17th century until the Chinese takeover in 1949, the Dalai Lamas held political over central Tibet.

The four noble Truths:

1. “Now this, monks, is the noble truth of suffering: Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering; union with what is displeasing is suffering; separation from what is pleasing is suffering; not to get what one wants is suffering; in brief, the five aggregates subject to clinging are suffering.
2. Now this, monks, is the noble truth of the origin of suffering: It is this craving which leads to renewed existence, accompanied by delight and lust, seeking delight here and there; that is, craving for sensual pleasures, craving for existence, craving for extermination.
3. Now this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of suffering: It is the remainderless fading away and cessation of that same craving, the giving up and relinquishing of it, freedom from it, non-reliance on it.
4. Now this, monks, is the the noble truth of the way leading to the cessation of suffering: it is this Noble Eightfold Path; that is, right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration.”^[2][5]