DIFFERENCES AND SIMILARITIES OF BUDDHISM, CONFUCIANISM, TAOISM, AND SHINTOISM Flores, Sofia Lauren S. 11-HUMSS (PM2) BUDDHISM FOUNDER Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) CONFUCIANISM FOUNDER ‘Kung-Fu-Tzu (Confucius) TAOISM FOUNDER Lao Tzu SHINTOISM FOUNDER Prehistoric Animists SIMILARITIES MAHAYANA BUDDHISM, TAOISM, AND SHINTOISM DOMINANT IN: Southern Asia (Theravada Buddhism) SACRED TEXTS Tripitaka (Theravada Buddshism) DOMINANT IN: Korea Sutras (Mahayana Buddhism) SACRED TEXTS Four Books a. b. c. d. Analects Mencius The Higher Education Doctrine of the Mean Confucian Classics a. a. Lotus Sutra b. Heart Sutra c. Land of Bliss Sutra DOMINANT IN: South Korea, Taiwan BUDDHISM, CONFUCIANISM AND TAOISM a. Vinaya Ptaka b. Sutra Pitaka c. Adhidharma Pitaka Dominant in: Japan, Vietnam b. c. d. e. Book of Changes Book of Poetry Book of History Book of Rites Spring and Autumn Annals SACRED TEXTS Tao Te Ching Book of Chuang Tze SACRED TEXTS Kojiki Nihongi Dominant in: China BUDDHISM, CONFUCIANISM, TAOISM, AND SHINTOISM God: Non-theistic Objective: Answering the purpose of life DOCTRINES/BELIEFS Four Noble Truths Noble Eightfold Path Six Paramitas Nirvana Reincarnation Karma DOCTRINES/BELIEFS Filial Piety Five Cardinal Virtues Five Relationships Tian DOCTRINES/BELIEFS Wu-wei (Nonaction) Law of Reversion and Yin and Yang Following Nature and the Ziran Feng shui Tao DOCTRINES/BELIEFS Belief in Kami (spirits) Animism Matsuri OBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE Learn the origins of suffering and how to end it Get rid of desires Attain enlightenment and reach Nirvana OBJECTIVE Build strong and respectful relationships Develop an individual’s character Concerned with order, structure, society OBJECTIVE Be one with the Tao Dwell in nature Seek union with the Kami (spirits) CONFUCIANISM AND SHINTOISM Ancestral worship