5 Causes for the Popularity of Buddhism

Popularity of Buddhism 1. Social Equality and Practical Morality The teachings of Buddha put forward a serious challenge to the existing Brahmanical order. Buddha’s liberal and democratic approach quickly attracted the people of all sections. His attack on the caste system and the supremacy of the Brahmanas was welcomed by the lower orders. Irrespective of…

Teachings of Gautam Buddha

Of all the religious preachers of the sixth century BCE, Gautama Buddha is the best known. Gautama Buddha or Siddhartha was a contemporary of Mahavira born in a royal family of the Sakyas at Kapilavastu in the southern part of present Nepal in the year 566 BCE. Siddhartha (original name of Gautama Buddha) renounced the…

Teachings of Mahavira

the real founder of Jainism was its 24thtirthankara, Mahavira. It is difficult to fix the exact dates of birth and death of this reformer. Most tirthankaras upto the fifteenth, are believed to have been born in eastern UP and Bihar but their historicity is extremely doubtful. No part of the mid-Gangetic plains was settled on…

Social and Economic Life of North-West India in 6th Century

Society Post-Vedic society was clearly divided into four varnas: Brahmanas, Kshatiryas, Vaishyas and Shudras. Each varnawas assigned well-defined function. Though varna was based on birth, the two higher varnas captured power, prestige and privileges at the cost of the two lower varnas. The Brahmanas who were allotted the functions of priests and teachers, claimed the…

Rise of Buddhism and Jainism in 6th Century BCE

Vedic Brahmanism, by the sixth century BCE had made its influence so widely spread on Indian soil that people started realizing that the degeneration in Indian society was mainly because of the evils of Vedic Brahmanism. The emphasis on sacrifices, rituals and the dominance of Brahmanas had vitiated the original doctrines of Vedic Brahmanism. Society…

Paulo Freire’s Philosophy of Education

The dominant historical and political circumstances of neo-colonialism and imperialism molded pedagogy of Paulo. Paulo Freire, one of the prominent representatives of critical pedagogy, is widely-known for his libertarian concepts in this field. He had strongly and repeatedly criticized the prevailing educational methods within a broad framework, which he calls banking education, by analyzing the…

Educational Implication of Paulo Freire’s Philosophy

Generative themes are used in third world countries and among teachers of minority groups and adult illiterates of richer nations. Used in needs analysis, planning of program content and curriculum development. As it relates the reality held by men and the perception about the reality held by educationist, policy makers and men. He advocates building…

Paulo Freire’s Ideas on Education

Paulo Freire, whose perspective is derived from both Marxist and Existentialist thought, has evolved pedagogical approach that has been applied in many contexts. It is more than simply a collection of methods or techniques. Some of the important ideas in Freire’s work are: Paulo Freire’s Ideas on Education 1. Dialogue Dialogue, means encounter of people…