The Story of Buddhism
Short Brief of Buddhism In this Blog post I will be talking about Buddhism and how it has an affect on the lives of its practitioners. Both of these chapters talk about the practicing of Buddhism. The differences between these two chapters though are that they each are talking about a different type of Buddhism. Chapter 11 talks about Theravada Buddhism, while chapter 12 talks about Mahayana Buddhism. The main ideas of both of these chapters is explaining the differences between the two Buddhism's and their teachings. " As mentioned earlier, the history of Buddhism is broadly divided between two great traditions, Theravada (also known as Hinayana) and Mahayana. Over time, Mahayana would become the larger and historically more influential movement"(Bresnan 243). Theravada Buddhism was a lot more exclusive on who was able to achieve freedom from pain and followed more from the oldest school in Buddhism, while Mahayana Buddhis...