Thailand
is mainly deep influence buddhist. To the buddhism confess are more than 90 % of the   population. All over the land, in each village and over the town’s widespread, offer something temple (Wat) as peaceful oasis. From buddha’s teach (dhamma) experience each child even in the primary school, a shoot, through the buddhist ethics of the thai’s ever new develop unfold. The student’s buddha’s are holy and untouched.They standing under the direct protect of the King. Each religious Thai (only male) goes for a few weeks or month enter a monastery.

 King Rama IV (very worship) gone a pilgrimage 27 years as monk through the land, but even King Rama IX (Bhumipol Adulydej) spent 3 month in the loneliness once monastery. The four noble truth of buddhism are, -in suffer (dukkha), consists the poverty of existence. -The cause of the suffer is the desire. -At the poverty, at suffer, to overcome, considered it, get the cause of desire, to get rid it. -To this goal leads the eight part path. The way point to morals worth and virtue, this compliance meditate lost in thought increase. Monks took present -but thanks owe the donator. Monks owe yet nobody anything, even no smile or a thank for the present. The most donator people for food are by the way women, but buddha haven’t got the illumination, but some good deed (Bun) strength the hope for pease soul. No female person can go all alone with a monk in the same room, she be allowed to touch a monk. Even for the women in Thailand is it not allowed to vacancy apprenticeship doctrine. They can take up to 10 vow and they can get dressed clothes a nun. But the all saints, the temple (Wat), can the female Thais walk on. Concluding remark, this is as I know, the once world religion in the human race history, from there never before be at war with different religion.                                                                     (Author: Albert Eitner)

 The Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama, which later buddha, lived before about 2500 years in the north of the Indian subcontinent. He originated from the nobleness the “Sakyer” and spent an unencumbered youth without material cares. He was married and had a son. However at the age of 29 years his life learned a dramatic turn. Shaking encounters with ages, disease and death, were occasion a six-year spiritual search. After many futile attempts, to find a way out from the imperfections of the existence, he had with 35 years one everything changing illuminations experience. After intense meditation had become he ultimately to a buddha, to an awakened. He had reached his goal, the deliverance of the grief. From now at taught he 45 years long, founded a monk- monastery and a nun-convent and won many follower. He died with 80 years and recommended shortly his death his followers, to look for in his doctrine their refuge and to strive continually for the deliverance.

 (Author: DBU Deutsche Buddhistische Union e.V.)
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