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@pyeitme508

10 ай бұрын

Lol

@danielsantiagourtado3430

10 ай бұрын

Love your work and dedication guys!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤😊😊😊😊

@shashwatsreenivasan4505

10 ай бұрын

In a nutshell lets see… only flag with triangles 🇳🇵, brother to us 🇮🇳 india, has the tallest mountain of the world, has AWESOME KUKRI knives and gurkhas, and also birthplace of a famous religion to some chill monk called Siddarth Gauthama Buddha

@christiandauz3742

10 ай бұрын

So Zelda?

@dinhaswijesuriya4491

4 ай бұрын

There are two concepts about Mara.Some say that he is the super powerful god who controls the pleasure and list of whole universal beings including Humans,Devas,Brahmas ,Pretas,Asuras and even Beast animals(eg:-dog,cat,snake,crocodile ,etc😅😊) .But as Buddhism rejects the concept of God and preach there are only Devas , a sort of technologically and spiritually developed alien beings who are misunderstood as gods Some Buddhists say that the Mara who resisted the enlightenment was none other than the dirty thoughts(lust,angriness,dumbness) that comes to our mind.According to their perspectives the Deva in the heaven which resisted Buddha is not Mara,but Mara Divya Putra.He is just a radical Deva.

Side note: will we ever see an Extra History series on a Buddhist monk named Xuan-zang? He had some ibn Battuta level side quests, and epic journeys.

@w3aponex870

10 ай бұрын

Wow

@stevenchoza6391

10 ай бұрын

Not really history. That’s more the realm of either Extra Literature or Extra Mythology.

@vinayakohri1293

10 ай бұрын

@@stevenchoza6391 huyen tsang was most certainly a real person and his records are very important to our understanding of classical India. He traveled extensively throughout the continent

@kreeperplays4246

10 ай бұрын

MORE side trips!? Sign. Me. Up!

@walidhammadou4605

10 ай бұрын

Blud ya mean the journey to the west

I am a Buddhist and long time viewer of Extra Credits/Extra History. An important note, hopefully covered in the lies episode, is that Buddhism doesn't have a unified cannon like the Bible. There are many different stories about the Buddha's life, each of which have deep religious and symbolic meaning to each denomination. Take, for example, the Buddha's son's birth. Most accounts say he didn't raise his son, and that the day he set out on his holy mission was the day of his son's birth. This has implications later because his wife breaks down in tears when they finally reunite, asking why he left her on the day their son was born. His son was also supposedly named Rahula, one who ensnares the heart, because the Buddha saw this as a means to prevent his mission to seek the holy life. The Buddha's mom also died from childbirth, and he was raised by his aunt Mahapajapati, which almost grounds the story in realism because while there is a ton of mythology around his birth (and not everyone believes in the same birth story), many women did not survive childbirth at that time.

@bohemianwriter1

10 ай бұрын

These mytholical births always seem to have a sense of children's fairy tales behind them. Both Jesus and Gautama...

@BlueWoWTaylan

10 ай бұрын

All these father figures in religions, either leaving their children or when they suffer, they do nothing. No wonder they all feel like one big daddy-complex.

@TisiphoneSeraph

10 ай бұрын

@@BlueWoWTaylan His child and wife were both well taken care of by his relatives while he was away and he returned to them after his enlightenment. Both became enlightened themselves meaning they were freed from suffering permanently in the Buddhist view. Some of my favorite sutras come from him patiently teaching Rahula how to treat himself and others well - free of any anger whatsoever. So read what you want into it but a dad who knows his mind isn't right, goes and really works on it, and comes back with zero anger and full to brimming with compassion doesn't sound like that bad of a dad to me.

@JohnVance

10 ай бұрын

I'm a lay Theravada Buddhist for over a decade now, and @km1dash6 makes good points. Another thing to be noted is that it was not the Buddha's first inclination to become a teacher following his awakening. Rather, he thought what he had to teach was too subtle and difficult, and that humanity would be unable and unwilling to grasp it. Tradition holds that one of the highest of the devas, Brahma Sahampati, manifests to the Buddha and convinces him that there are at least some who would be receptive to his teachings.

@unclejoeoakland

10 ай бұрын

​@@TisiphoneSeraphWith all due respect, abandoning ones family and especially the children, to pursue personal enlightenment sounds like a very destructive, selfish conception of enlightenment.

I wish you covered the full "battle scene" between Mara and Buddha. Because it isn't just him repelling an army. In the standard mythology, it actually ends when Mara bellows that it is he who really provides meaning to existence, and has all his demons scream in agreement. Mara then taunts Siddartha as to who will vouch for his so-called enlightenment, and that's when he touches the ground.

@tayjaytesla1142

10 ай бұрын

That's metal AF

@EmeraldLavigne

10 ай бұрын

​@@tayjaytesla1142Buddhist mythology is really fuckin metal

@ReaperBlack-no3ig

10 ай бұрын

The best part was what he says or rather what he means when he touches the ground, supposedly he says calmly, "The earth is my witness," and the demons shooketh and ran in fear.

Mom : "HONEY, come! He's about to say his first words!" Baby : "This is my last rebirth"

@edwardsbarbara25

3 ай бұрын

Love it!!

@shryggur

3 ай бұрын

"Finally, last level"

@arupkalita4557

13 күн бұрын

Original story is different

Modern day Afghanistan used to be a bastion of Buddhism it's quite interesting how the socioreligious dynamics of geographies can change with time

@henrikmygren

10 ай бұрын

Yeah I remember that the country Sri Lanka among others offered to buy the ancient buddhist statues there in Afghanistan but Taliban terrorist rather destroy ancient history than even let some of it exist elsewhere.😢

@errornull390

10 ай бұрын

They are blowing themselves up right now, when has it not been a devout follower of buddah and Mohammad?

@Argacyan

10 ай бұрын

Afghanistan through its history was a place of many religions, not just our buddhist or muslim brothers.

@StarInTheOcean

10 ай бұрын

Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Myanmar are Buddhist countries. But, the atrocities they have laid upon their own citizens are at par. We cannot put a particular religious belief as a cause for human's innate nature. Because, religion cannot change the nature of the mass population. Although, it is powerful enough to change our personal beliefs. But, We cannot do anything about religion mixing with politics and becoming a lethal and potent weapon instead of a personal belief and thus we cannot seperate religion and politics. Personal preferences like choosing your leader can be affected by the background of the chosen leader like his religion and that is where failure of human civilization lies.

@falconeshield

10 ай бұрын

​@@StarInTheOceanThis is why secular buddisim is best Buddisim

I'm a christian but I've always admired Buddhism for its clarity and kindness. It will be good to learn more about Buddhism.

@errornull390

10 ай бұрын

Oow wee, you must kill children oooweee @adamblakeslee5301 - “wow such kindness 😊”

@isaacharvie3102

10 ай бұрын

@@errornull390huh?

@oceanberserker

10 ай бұрын

​@@isaacharvie3102Take a lesson from the Buddha, my friend. And ignore the troll above you.

@SonofSethoitae

10 ай бұрын

@@errornull390 "And how is one made impure in four ways by verbal action? (...) He engages in abusive speech. He speaks words that are harsh, cutting, bitter to others, abusive of others, provoking anger and destroying concentration." - Cunda Kammaraputta Sutta (AN 10.176)

@randomrhino7500

10 ай бұрын

Javanese biddhism be like time to punch some samurais and collecting Money-from alcohol and gambling

I was raised Buddhist (My parents are Sri Lankan), and even though I don't practice religion anymore, I am glad that you guys are covering Buddhism. There is a lot of misconception about Buddhism and hopefully this series can shed some light on Siddhartha's journey.

As a Theravada Buddhist, I really appreciate Extra History doing this series to spread the story and influence Buddhism even if they are are not followers.

@balargus319

10 ай бұрын

Theravada is said by nonbuddhist scholars to be the most similar extant version to what the Buddha himself initially taught. Is that correct?

@EmeraldLavigne

10 ай бұрын

​@@balargus319yes, it comes from the Pali canon, a language older even than Sanskrit, so it's the oldest written version, being followed for over 2000 years.

@EmeraldLavigne

10 ай бұрын

Small Vehicle heads represent lol 😉😉

@spy1545

9 ай бұрын

@@EmeraldLavigne Pali isn't older than Sanskrit wtf?, Pali is one of the prakrit languages and Prakrit languages literally came from Sanskrit

@thastayapongsak4422

9 ай бұрын

​@@EmeraldLavignePali is not older than Sanskrit. Rather it's one of Sanskrit's descendants.

I’m a Buddhist from Sri Lanka. Your interpretation on yhe core values of Buddhism is spot on.

As a practitioner of the Mahayana tradition, I applaud you for taking the time to make this series. Good to see more knowledge being contributed to general awareness in the West ☸

*Shows a simplified pic of Aang with the title "Best Kids Show Ever"* Amen to that brothers. ✊✊✊ That aside, it's great you're doing a series on the origins of Buddhism. It's not a topic I've been well-informed on, but I know you guys will deliver as always.

@Jamuvac

10 ай бұрын

Exactly, loved that moment

@curemilkythecurebeanouwu9527

10 ай бұрын

Same, I loved that part (also bc i'm an ATLA fan too)

Just a clarification. Life is suffering is one of the most misquoted phrases. It translates more to There is discontentment in life. The illusion of trying to control something you cannot control brings suffering like your youth, wealth, etc. When you get rid of your harmful desires, it opens you to reality kinda like nihilism.

@EmeraldLavigne

10 ай бұрын

"Dukha" translates to "unsatisfactoriness" or maybe "discontentedness." It's far more nuanced than "suffering."

@KasumiRINA

22 күн бұрын

" it opens you to reality kinda like nihilism " ah yes, hating everything and everyone all time because you think you're above everyone is totally open and realistic, that's why Nietzsche had so many friends amirite? Also the sheer idea of finding _discontentment_ i.e. tiny inconveniences so unbreable you want humanity to end (i.e. the goal of Buddhism, Nirvana) is THE most ultra-privileged philosophy I ever heard. Nihilism is like if the princess on a pea decided for the world to end because her bed is not perfectly smooth. Nihilists should grasp ACTUAL reality of people who don't have endless free time and finances to just mop around philosophically from their mother's basement.

I am Thai American buddhist and have watched your second episode on nebula (long time fan). This series is FANTASTIC. You are right about how diverse buddhism is and I don't claim to be a good source of it but this has been a pleasant experience when compared to learning it in AP World history where I was more confused than anything. A lot of the story and even discussions about the practices and principles like Nuns (conservativism toward women / gender hierarchy-esque) and the important (dependent) relationship between the common people and the monks are just chefs kiss. It's those details I tell my friends that I wouldn't expect to hear. Again, I am not any authority of the subject, but this was very interesting as it resonated with me more than the education I got from school about my own religion. Interested to see how far this goes. Had made me think of the tales I was told by my folks about the Buddha. People have asked me "wait there is hell in buddhism?", "isn't it a philosophy?", "is nirvana a place or mental state?" Valid questions, but it just shows how buddhism and how people know it is so complicated and mysterious, especially outside the East.

I loved reading Osamu Tezuka's biography of Buddha. It was his last project before he died.

@ecurewitz

10 ай бұрын

I liked that series

Theravada Buddhist here, and I’m thrilled to see this series underway. But first, a caveat: The first noble truth is a bit more nuanced: it’s less “it’s all suffering” but “suffering exists”. Similarly, the second noble truth is less “desire” but “sensual craving”. To explain the nuance: a major reason why right concentration is in the Eightfold Path is that meditation, done in the right way, can produce immense refreshment and pleasure. Even the word “rapture” is used to describe how some of the initial meditative states feel. And all together, the theme is that we satiate our desire for sense pleasures with meditation (ie pleasures not of the flesh). Now, this is better than the alternative, but for an experienced meditator, states of meditative concentration eventually reveal their drawbacks. Therefore, said meditator cultivates what is needed to go beyond that pleasure-not-of-the-flesh; and in so doing, finds something so utterly satisfying that the desire to come back to the material world itself gets exhausted.

@EmeraldLavigne

10 ай бұрын

"Unsatisfactoriness" trends to be a better or more accurate weird than "suffering," I find. Because it's the unsatisfactoriness of experiences that motivate us to reach for something to give us sense pleasure; e.g, waiting in a long line at the grocery store is boring, so I reach for my phone to scroll a social media. Waiting in a line isn't *strictly* "suffering," but not having my mind not occupied IS unsatisfactory. Instead of just being present and fully experiencing reality for what it is, as it is, on its own terms. Brad Warner is kind of a douche bag, but he is right that enlightenment is eating a tangerine. It's that "when you're walking, know that you're walking, when your eating, know that you're eating, when you're standing, know that you're standing." A buddha would experience mindfulness of standing in line at the grocery store, for instance.

@JohnFallot

10 ай бұрын

@@EmeraldLavigne The word “stress” also works for describing unsatisfactoriness, &c. As for mindfulness, that’s not enlightenment. Mindfulness in a practical sense is just keeping something in mind. You can be mindful about robbing a bank for instance. But right mindfulness is applying that capacity in a very specific way, ie Right Mindfulness. The Buddha in numerous discourses describes it as the “Four Frames of Reference”, which are the body, feelings, mind, and mental qualities. You could even think of Right Mindfulness (RM) as like the recipes for food, and Right Concentration (RC) as the reviews of that food. For example, RM says you pay attention to the breath, you note how the whole body responds to the breath, you apply perceptions to calm that response down. RC, meanwhile, explains & posits that by gathering your mind to that topic, evaluating that topic, you aught to experience the arising of refreshment and pleasure (the first jhana, or meditative absorption). If you deepen that focus correctly, first your need to apply thoughts to the topic will subside (2nd jhana), then the refreshment will subside (3rd jhana), and then the pleasure will subside and then you’ll be left with a state of equanimity, poise, calm (4th jhana). Importantly, you don’t “do”jhana, you do breath meditation. And it’s not that jhanas are “a byproduct”, they just describe what the mind aught to do if you’re doing it correctly. It’s a skill, and the Buddha in his 40 years of talks often compared it to other skills. I hope that’s all helpful 😃

I remember when I first read the story of the buddha I related to it, I felt I could relate to the Sidartha's mindset. I loved that story and beacuse of that I always felt a conection to buddhism. I grew up as a muslim then lost my faith for a while but then I discivered budhism and it changed my life! For the better! Thanks for telling this story again it's still one of my favorite stories I have ever heared.❤

“You could make a religion out of this”

The whole thing so far is accurate to the way I was taught his story, but at the 4 minute mark, where Buddha sees the 4 different people, I was told he saw them on separate occasions. Where when he saw the sick man, his father tried to prevent him from leaving again, but he insisted and saw the other 3 people. But I rly like this series already I’ll be watching the episodes when they come out

I think I learned a lot of Buddhism mainly from watching avatar The Last Airbender when I was a kid😂 that was one of my favorite cartoons besides Star Wars the Clone Wars that show was awesome😊

@spacecow2942

10 ай бұрын

There's significant Buddhist influence in both of those!

@curemilkythecurebeanouwu9527

10 ай бұрын

Same but i've also learned more about Buddhism in religion class ( yep we did learn about it)

@ajdynon

10 ай бұрын

Cool History Bros did a video examining A:tLA from Confucian, Buddhist and Taoist perspective.

I am glad that Extra history got the place of birth of Buddha right as it is so much important for us Nepalese people.

@yj9032

10 ай бұрын

Nepal didn't exist back then. It was all India

@nomms

10 ай бұрын

@@yj9032 India didn't exist back then either. It was a fundamentally different place with many many different states and kingdoms in varying borders. The subcontinent was not united the way it is now.

@rhythmkhandelwal2940

10 ай бұрын

​​@@nommsThe concept of Bharat(India) has been mentioned in Rig Veda which is older than Buddha itself and that mentions the whole Indian Subcontinent as Bharat, and guess what is the native name of present day India. Bharat xD

@nomms

10 ай бұрын

@@rhythmkhandelwal2940 That term didn't even refer to the whole subcontinent back then my dude

@siddhesh6942

9 ай бұрын

You wish bro

At least according to Theravada Buddhism, when Mara's army attacked, The Mother Earth Goddess Thorani appeared and washed away the army in a deluge wrung from her hair which was comprised of the water Siddhartha Gautama had poured in devotion. This is a very popular image and throughout Thailand you can find altars to Mae Thorani in the act of wringing her hair, often with a fountain of water emerging at the tip of it. There is one such altar located near Bangkok's City Pillar Shrine, adjacent to The Grand Palace and Temple of The Emerald Buddha.

@SonofSethoitae

10 ай бұрын

It's the same in all the Mahayana versions of this story that I've heard. She's typically included in lists of protective deities in the Mahayana for this very reason.

@truth_finder2001

10 ай бұрын

Eventhogh we were raised as theravada buddhists, I'm not aware about this story. Can you mention a particular text or something related to this, if it is theravada buddhism? Thai buddhism has a significant influence from mahayana buddhism as well. May be that is a story came from mahayana buddhism. I'm not sure though.

@WaterShowsProd

10 ай бұрын

@@truth_finder2001 Interesting. You can see this portrayed in the animated series "Thus I Have Heard" which is available on You Tube. Other than the shrines I've mentioned I'm not sure where else exactly you might find depictions, though I have seen it referenced. I know there are variations even with Theravada, especially if you compare Myanmar with Thailand/Laos; a friend of mine from Myanmar was surprised to see Hindu and Chinese gods and godesses in Buddhist temples, saying in Myanmar Buddhist temples only contain The Buddha, but then I saw Nats present in Burmese temples, so the local beliefs do get incorporated. The Theravada Buddhism in Thailand is based on doctrine and practices from Sri Lanka, though certainly there are local variations.

@thebestevertherewas

10 ай бұрын

WOW, even Thai's call mothers : MAE We in the subcointinent call it maa

@WaterShowsProd

10 ай бұрын

@@thebestevertherewas The words for mother and father are similar across the world. It's thought that it's because they are the easiest sounds and often the first sounds that babies make because the similarities are even seen in unrelated family groups. In Thai we also use Sanskrit derived words for formal terms of "mother" and "father", and for Royal Speech. Being part of The Indo-European Langauge Group, the Sanskrit word for "father" is very similar to the Latin word, as they evolved from the same root.

I love that subtle ALTA support

Mara and his daughters are personification for Death, Thirst, Desire, and Delight respectively. This is how concepts turn into mythology if interpreted literally.

Siddhartha Gautama got it right.

We gotta get a series on each religion

@luminescentpearl4126

10 ай бұрын

Agreed

@Alverant

10 ай бұрын

As long as it includes The Satanic Temple.

@KasumiRINA

22 күн бұрын

@@Alverant which one? There's like dozens competing for the title, and didn't they already have a piece on LaVey? Or was it Crowley? XD I can't tell apart these LARPers.

As a young Divinity student, I routinely used Buddhist examples and imagery to explain Christianity to my elderly mainstream Protestant Bible study group participants! 😂😍

@yj9032

10 ай бұрын

Can you elaborate please

From the book of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, it always interested me in a full history of Buddhism!

Demons: We have come to bring you pain, and stress, suffering, regret, guilt and misery. We are relentless and invincible, and will not go away ever. What are you going to do? Buddha: I will touch grass.

Nice video, Buddhism is a religion which is not much discovered but a religion which has swayed multiple rulers , even those who once were conquerors

It always amuses me how Buddhism is often simply thought of as something with serene meditation and peacefulness, _maybe_ martial arts monks if you want more action, in a lot of Western media, when delving a bit deeper into it and you find out a lot of Buddhist mythology visualized wouldn't be out of place in metal album covers.

Oooh, I love religious history so this series will be a treat for me! Can’t wait to dive further into Buddhism’s history

@SuperWindsage

10 ай бұрын

gonna be honest it sounds pretty malicious from what I know about it.

@user-oe3db4oj9q

10 ай бұрын

@@SuperWindsage It’s fine, I’ve researched Polynesian and Aztec myths before, I think those should’ve prepared me enough for whatever this may bring.

@EmeraldLavigne

10 ай бұрын

​@@SuperWindsagethat's probably the first time I've heard it called "malicious" lol

Thanks for doing this series. I remember going to bookstores in the 80s and seeing Buddhism put under "philosophy" or "occult" and not "religion" (assuming they had any books about Buddhism at all). Some people even argued it wasn't a "real" religion for whatever reason. It wasn't until the 2000s did I start seeing it included in the "religion" section. Let's hope this educates some.

@lerensajadah6469

10 ай бұрын

whoa, in which country? if I remember correctly almost all of South and southeast Asia sees Buddhism as a religion, even if it is a minority on that country.

@Alverant

10 ай бұрын

@@lerensajadah6469 USA, midwest to be specific. Protesters claimed it wasn't a real religion when a Buddhist priest gave the opening prayer to the US Congress.

@KasumiRINA

22 күн бұрын

I STILL keep hearing how Buddhism (or Confucianism or Taoism) are "not religions" usually by IAm14AndThisIsDeep types, you know, those want to pretend they're smarter than others and oh so different to everyone. Or by cringey Reddit atheism types who are trying to include Buddhist population in their count of atheists lmao.

I hope they have an buddhist help writing these episodes, great stuff

This is the best lesson if my entire life. I wish I heard this long time back. Monks like these makes your life easy and better. I'm so grateful for this sermon. 🙏

Fascinating how he finds enlightenment under a tree, similar to the biblical story of the tree of knowledge in Eden.

@EmeraldLavigne

10 ай бұрын

I'd suggest it's almost inverted; the Lord Buddha sees through and frees himself from suffering under the bodhi tree, but Eve & Adam's tree only brings them suffering.

@scottanos9981

10 ай бұрын

@@EmeraldLavigne Quite insightful. I wonder what led ancient cultures to various interpretations of the tree myth?

@ngenge1309

9 ай бұрын

@@scottanos9981In my country it is said that each buddha found enlightenment under different trees.

As Buddhist, I aprove this video. Good job Extra Credits :D

Schopenhauer: You are right Buddha that our desires make us suffer. But that is not WHY we suffer. Buddha: Then tell me Schopenhauer why do we suffer? Schopenhauer: We suffer because we were born. Buddha: Who hurt you?

"Moderation in all things" - Siddartha "I'm gonna meditate for seven weeks straight." - also Siddartha

Hi. While I understand that Buddhism series would be more focused around its eventual reach into the greater world, it would be very interesting to show how Buddhism had a effect on the political history of the Indian subcontinent. If this can be discussed I believe it will show us a very interesting detail that is generally skipped.

I've been practicing meditation for 5 years and it's been thoroughly rewarding. Buddhism and meditation are powerful tools to achieve deeper insight and understanding. The Buddha said: "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." The Buddha was a great man.

@JBaughb

10 ай бұрын

I'm having a difficult time parsing this as good advice, considering many, many people have faulty reasoning skills and lack common sense. To me, it reads as "lock yourself in the comfort of your own echo chamber". Maybe a bit reductive, but maybe I'm missing the wisdom in the phrase?

@BlueWoWTaylan

10 ай бұрын

THat is quite dangerous and sounds quite like 'Just live in denial if you don't like it''. Because average person's 'own reason and common sense' lacking so much that objective, factual truths can be ignored easily and that mindset would lead to more of it. And that is why many terrible events happen in the world in the first place. And you cannot have your own reason and common sense if you just isolate yourself into your own thoughts all the time. You cannot grow that way.

@joearchuleta7538

10 ай бұрын

@@JBaughb Might I suggest a book called "One Dharma" by Joseph Goldstein. For their is no Karma without Dharma" Maitreya the next buddha.

@Game_Hero

10 ай бұрын

so basically cognitive dissent = good???

@wintermanthenforcer

10 ай бұрын

Where did you get this from? I'm sure as hell the Buddha would never support biased way of thinking

"he would pursue a middle path, he decided. moderation in all things. then he meditated for 49 days." thats like... the most moderate meditation time i have ever heard of ^^

Thank you for putting this out there.

'If comes and states to you "I want happiness", all you have to do is tell them to remove "want", that is desire and "I" which is ego, and then you are left with just "happiness" ''. -The Awakened One

@tat3179

10 ай бұрын

Not really. Happiness, sadness, anger, joy, desire....all human emotions are suppose to be like the weather, it comes and it goes. You are not suppose to pursue them or want them, like what the Americans like say "in pursuit of happiness", just like you are not suppose to pursue a perfect, beautiful day. It comes and it goes. Some days are cloudy, some days stormy some days gloomy, some days breathtakingly beautiful. And it always ends and changes constantly. What you are supposed to aim for is a state of mind where there is a extremely placid calm lake that is totally unaffected by the weather that constantly changes above it.

Yeess I love that youre doing this series!!

I may not be Buddhist but i can apreaciate what he learned under that tree. Life is suffering, nothing lasts forever, desire leads to pain. All of them pretty valid for reals. Looking forward to next couple of installments 😊👍

As a practicing Buddhism person myself i appreciate the tone at which you tell the history. :)

Okay now I want an Extra History about Pythagoras that also includes all the mythology around him.

@JohnVance

10 ай бұрын

Oooh Greek math cults would be awesome

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS STORY AND NOW ITS HERE

thank you so much for starting this series

This is going to be a great ride! You guys always make My day!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤

Extra History on Hinduism with all of its convoluted, esoteric, multi-layered deities and stories would be awesome. Probably would take like a hundred episodes tho.

Like 3 years ago I had an ego death that really made me reevaluate life and it sounds very close to Buddha's nirvana.

Have you guys considered another series on the Byzantines like the Michael VIII or another ottoman series on Mehmet II or Selim I or something? The Suleiman and Justinian series have a really special place in my heart as they along with the 100 years war were the first series I watched on this channel.

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

If you're Italian you'll certantly know Giacomo Leopardi, a poet and philospher that lived between the 18th and 19th century and boy oh boy are his ideas to human suffering close to the ones of Buddhism. I was truly shocked to learn how similar his ideas were and yet there isn't any proof that he ever came in contact with Buddhism in any way. So, while the solutions to human sufferings were different, I cannot help but wonder if, given enough thought, we human all come to the same conclusions: life is pain, desire is infinite and we cannot fully satisfy it ecc... Fascinating

Any religion, any collection of words, that bring a mind calm, order, respect, control, compassion and all those qualities. That is a good collection of words.

Intresting take of an Idea. Great Job to the amazing Patreons

as a buddhist I fully support this series and hope it'll tell the story of our beginning as precisely as possible, regards :D

You know, some of us 40k players heard “8 fold path” and started loading our bolters.

@PetroBeherha

10 ай бұрын

I actually thought that Buddhism would make for an effective counter to Chaos, most of all Slaanesh.

I love the art style. Also, very interesting story and engaging narration.

The artist for this series is doing some new things which are very cool!

Wow! I'm Buddhist and a long time fan of Extra History. I'm so happy and surprised to see you covering this topic. I was raised Buddhist since childhood. In Vietnamese, we called Siddhartha "Tất-đạt-đa" or "Thích-ca Mâu-ni". Anyway, I remembered learning and hearing about the young Siddartha. One of the stories that wasn't detailed in this video is that when Siddartha was starving, he learned about the middle path when he came across a musician tuning his instrument. The musician told his student(s) that to create a perfect and harmonious note, they mustn't loosen the strings on their instruments too loosely or tighten them too much. Just enough in between to achieve your goal.

This makes me think. Nietzsche is basically the dark response to these realisations. Embrace fleeting desire while you can. Pay for the highs with the lows. Just go for it.

Oh man. You guys were not showing up in my suggested videos. I only noticed now, but it dawned on me that I hadn’t seen a video from Extra Credit in a long while. I’m pleased to find you guys still exist… phew!!!! I panicked. Lesson learned. Gonna click the bell thingy.

I hope to see Extra History one day about the Indian buddhist monk bodhidharma. Attributed to have taken martial arts to China. However that part of history has also been rejected because china already had martial arts but his teaching of Zen changed the martial arts ways of China to what it is today. Whatever is true or not hope we can see an episode of him one day.

@Petruhafication

10 ай бұрын

Bodhidharma is believed to be the founder of Shaolin kung fu not all Chinese martial arts

@yj9032

10 ай бұрын

Bodi Dharma was Narendra Modi's previous reincarnation. Modi is the father of all.

@anirudh177

9 ай бұрын

It's quite unlikely he ever founded Kung fu or shaolin as is claimed by many.

my humanities class learned this for concept checks and sleepless nights, and we learned how the religion spread, how it merged with cultures, and the differences were between the 2 main branches and Hinduism, this is gonna be fun!

Thank you for your video.

Love the topic choice!

finally a animated summary i literally have to read books in my country and all the animated videos are low budget

I'm Sri Lankan Buddhist. And most of your info was true and soot on except for a few things like his mom dying shortly after his Buddha's birth. But these details change from place to place so that's understandable. But what I would suggest is that you do a series of the Buddhist Councils which happened after the Buddha's parinirvana. Since those are all historically accurate and give a great insight as to how the Buddhist sasana survived after the Buddha's parinirvana.

My first thought, when I heard about him, was 'wow, I bet Sid & JC woulda been friends & worked together, had they lived in the same time/place, 'cause they had such similar ideas'.

Well this is going to be interesting...

Really enjoyed this education on a religion. Awesome intro

And that's how Mara became a green dong on a chariot in the Shin Megami Tensei series...

I LOVE THIS SERIES

A series of the history of buddhism would be interesting.

Love that you are getting into the history of Buddhism, and know a large part of it will be mythical I think is important as many of the stories are tied to the lessons the buddha teaches.

Already excited for the Lies episode on this. I'd really love to know which tradition Rob's pulling the mythical details from because I've been a Buddhist for a decade now and this varies a lot from the version I was taught. I've never hear of him being born from his mom's side or the white elephant. Would love to know which early texts (or later texts) to go check out to hear about this version. I hadn't heard that he was supposed to be a king specifically but a great leader/ruler. The variance doesn't bother me personally and I enjoy learning other versions. His teachings are ultimately what's important.

Thanks for adding Ip Man and Bruce Lee in this video!

1:33 Weirdly enough, the other two best kids shows, Amphibia and Adventure Time, also have themes of Buddhism in them, though Amphibia has a greater emphasis on it with all the lotus imagery and the MC being Thai-American

@JohnVance

10 ай бұрын

AT was soooo Buddhist and I loved it

i just want to say that i am happy to find out that this chanel buddhist videos about gauthama buddha and the last buddha to walk the earth. 28 for sure . as a buddhist you said everything correctly just like how sri lankans learn there buddhist religen

Wow As a Buddhist I really appreciated this video :)

I would really love to see more Extra History series tackling stories that straddle the line between mythology and history, sifting out the former to tell the tale of the latter. The Trojan War series was a good example of one such dive, and I would really like to the stories of ancient Israel, post-Roman Britain and Gilgamesh also being examined with a historical lens.

As a buddhist. When i learn my own religion. It was hard. I understand in this video. Thanks for letting me know about my religion. And im sri lankan 🇱🇰

1:00 yaaaah, that still makes it "ONE of the most" top 10 isnt bad

1:33 "the best kids show"... wiser words were never spoken...

Just saw this and I got so excited lol

Is it by coincidence that this is being released on the weekend before Asalha Puja Day on Monday? This is the Lunar Calendar Anniversary of The Buddha's first sermon, and marks the beginning of Buddhist Lent, also called The Rain Retreats. On Monday evening people will circle the main hall of Buddhist temples three times clockwise with lit candles, incense, and a lotus flower, in a walking meditation.

It's SO REFRESHING to not see Mara as a giant penis monster riding a chariot. Praise/curse you, Atlus! XD And also, on re-watch, I just noticed his war elephant mount, and I'm like... GIRIMEKHALA!!

nice to hear not just the legend but also what is factual and even what we don't know that we wish we did

This is a great start to the history of Buddhism series. Please do a series about the beginning of Islam too.

Video #1 on the history of Buddhism being 11 minutes and 11 seconds, and it being posted 1 hour ago when I first see it is absolutely insane

Thank you for making a video on the history of my religion.

"I've tried to meditate. They told me it would help. But the last thing I need is more time alone inside myself."

I was taught that the "life is suffering" portion of the 4 noble truths isn't necessarily accurate. Rather, I was taught that it's more accurate to say "life is filled with suffering" - since many often take "life is suffering" to mean they are equal. I only visited that zendo where I was told this once (I left but plan to return when I can move out, bit hard being Buddhist in a home where no one's a fan of it), but I should do so again. Life is filled with suffering, filled with things that cause people to suffer. But life itself inherently isn't suffering. A part of it, not the heart of it.

Thanks

@extrahistory

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for helping support the show!

the person was fed siddharath was no ordinary peasent she was nagarvadhu(citywife) of vaishali city called amrapali . A beautiful scene recreated many times by artists

I could never understand how he could abandon his own family like that. When I first learned of Buddhism, that one fact is what bothered me the most, and it still bugs me.

@Alverant

10 ай бұрын

Agreed. But find me a major religion that doesn't have a key figure acting like a jerk (or worse) and I'll convert.

@sumitshresth

10 ай бұрын

He didnt abandoned his family because he wanted. he was in full on crisis mode and wanted to know why he just had new baby who was going to die. He had to know why do we live and purpose of life before he felt any reason to continue being in family. Also, he did visited his family later and they became monks including his son.

@SonofSethoitae

10 ай бұрын

That's what happens when someone who has been coddled their entire life has an existential crisis. He wasn't thinking clearly at that time.

@yj9032

10 ай бұрын

Back then, wife and kids were property of the man. He could do as he pleases.

@truth_finder2001

10 ай бұрын

There may be lots of interpretations for this story. Buddhism talks about getting rid of craving and detachment of sensual pleasures to achieve the noble pleasure of Nirvana. If prince siddartha didn't marry before leaving the palace, when he preaches dhamma, people may allege him saying that "He is saying these things just because he doesn't know the taste of sensual pleasure". Therefore, it is a tradition of every bodhisatvas to marry and have a child before they leave their ordinary lay life. Plus, both Princess Yashodhara and Prince Rahula who were the wife and son of Prince Siddhartha respectively, were ordained in Buddha Sasana and later they achived the noble pleasure of Nirvana. Therefore, someone cannot allege him pointing that he abondened his wife and son. It's like a father going to a distant place for work leaving his children with their mother for some time. This is what I have read.

wow, it's good if extra history is starting to touch on religion's number one person. I hope you will also cover other religions' stories, which cover each of them respectfully.