英语词汇buddhism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Buddhism. Buddha, “the Enlightened One,” was the title giv- en to Prince Siddhartha (ca. 563–ca. 485), the Hindu prince who founded Buddhism in the sixth century b.c. It had been prophesied on his conception that the prince would renounce the world upon seeing a sick man, an old man, and a corpse, which human misery he saw while riding through the royal park one day when he was 29 years old. Prince Siddhartha left his wife and child, and after six years of solitude and contem- plation, during which he devoted himself to the severest asceti- cism, living on seeds, grass, and even dung, he emerged as the Buddha, preaching a religion based on salvation by suffering. Existence, he proclaimed, was evil, and desire was the cause of sorrow. Nirvana the absorption into the supreme spirit, was the reward obtained by the suppression of desire. Gautama Bud- dha (Gautama is from his clan name, and he is called Sakyam- muni Buddha from his tribal name) spent all his life as a wanderer, preaching his doctrine from the time he attained enlightenment under a Bo tree at Buddh Gaya in northern India until his death 45 years later. Buddha, or the Enlightened, derives from the Sanskrit bodhati, “he awakens.” It is estimated that Buddhism has about 140 million followers today.

词汇	buddhism
词源	Buddhism. Buddha, “the Enlightened One,” was the title giv- en to Prince Siddhartha (ca. 563–ca. 485), the Hindu prince who founded Buddhism in the sixth century b.c. It had been prophesied on his conception that the prince would renounce the world upon seeing a sick man, an old man, and a corpse, which human misery he saw while riding through the royal park one day when he was 29 years old. Prince Siddhartha left his wife and child, and after six years of solitude and contem- plation, during which he devoted himself to the severest asceti- cism, living on seeds, grass, and even dung, he emerged as the Buddha, preaching a religion based on salvation by suffering. Existence, he proclaimed, was evil, and desire was the cause of sorrow. Nirvana the absorption into the supreme spirit, was the reward obtained by the suppression of desire. Gautama Bud- dha (Gautama is from his clan name, and he is called Sakyam- muni Buddha from his tribal name) spent all his life as a wanderer, preaching his doctrine from the time he attained enlightenment under a Bo tree at Buddh Gaya in northern India until his death 45 years later. Buddha, or the Enlightened, derives from the Sanskrit bodhati, “he awakens.” It is estimated that Buddhism has about 140 million followers today.
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