I am a design researcher and have written multiple ethnographic and cultural research reports. I personally like writing poems, blogs and travelogues.
An excerpt from my report.
"All the places it spread it took part of faith and practices already present and thus Buddhism got diluted. The present Buddhism has given place to many gods and dieties., which are faithfully prayed to and served. Tibetan Buddhism has a long list of gods, goddesses and dieties and different rituals dedicated to them. I got a chance to attend a Mahakaali pooja where hundreds of monks were present and were continuously chanting and playing different musical instruments to please the goddess. Prayer was for the invocation of the protector guardian. Though the chantings and the environment created was totally mesmerising, the picture was far away from the picture of Buddha sitting under the bodhi tree and meditating.
Bardo talks about a better life after death and thus a series of ritualistic practices are followed to guide the soul of a dead person to a better life. Buddha denies the existence of soul as it is not seen by anyone or proved in anyway. It is believed that as a body dies, the soul takes rebirth in form of another human body. As mentioned earlier, Buddha’s idea of rebirth was enitirely different. He believed in the regeneration of matter and not in the rebirth of the soul. This belief of Buddha is in agreement with science that energy is never lost but changes form."
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