REL 134 Week 3 DQ4

What are the Three Jewels of Buddhism? What are the Four Noble Truths? What are the steps of the Noble Eightfold Path? How do these teachings inform the practice of Buddhism?

Molloy (2009) states that the Three Jewels in Buddhism are the Buddha, the Sangha, and the Dharma. The sum of the Buddhist teaching and philosophy is the Dharma (Sanskrit) or the Dhamma (Pali) and refers to how we should live in the world, how to view the world, and how to live in way to produce to good karma. The Sangha is a word referring to a group of Buddhist monks

Groups of four and groups of eight are common in Buddhist teachings. One group of four is known as the Four Truths of life.

1. Suffering Exists

2. Suffering has a cause

3. Suffering has an end

4. Following the eightfold noble path...