A question asked by many people is " What is the difference between Theravada and Mahayana Buddhism?" To find the answer let us look at the history of Buddhism and compare and contrast the beliefs and philosophies of the two. The Buddah, Siddhartha Gautama, was born in the 6th century B.C.E. in Northwestern India. The Buddah was the son of an aristocrat and grew up in a world of affluence and privilege. His father, …showed first 75 words of 853 total…

…showed last 75 words of 853 total…Body of Bliss, but the one that rules over our world is Amithaba who lives in a paradise in the western heavens called Sukhavati or "Land of Pure Bliss". Finally, the Body of Bliss comes out from the Body of Essence, which is the principle underlying of the whole universe. This Body of Essence became synonymous with Nirvana. It was a kind of universal soul, and Nirvana became the wonderful joining with this universal soul .