--- title: Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: About 2500 years ago in India a prince called Siddhartha Gautama left his palace to find out why people suffer; Bu --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Buddhism, humanism and respect for eve… # Buddhism, humanism and respect for every belief Lesson 33 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/0/) — About 2500 years ago in India a prince called Siddhartha Gautama left his palace to find out why people suffer; Buddhists call him the Buddha, "the awakened one", and follow his path of wisdom and kindness. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/1/) — The Buddha taught the Four Noble Truths: life has suffering, suffering comes from craving, it can end, and the Eightfold Path leads there; many Buddhists meditate to calm the mind and do not believe in a creator God. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/2/) — Some people have no religion: an atheist believes there is no God, an agnostic thinks we cannot know, and humanists try to live good lives by reason and compassion, believing this life is the only one. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/3/) — Christians believe in God, yet freedom of religion means everyone may believe, practise, change or have no religion without being forced or mocked; respect does not mean agreeing, it means treating people fairly. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/4/) — Most faiths and humanism share honesty, kindness, care for the poor and the Golden Rule, so a Christian child can make friends across beliefs, learn real facts from people themselves and refuse stereotypes. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/5/) — Buddhism was founded by Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, in India about 2500 years ago. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/6/) — Buddhism aims to end suffering through wisdom and kindness. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/7/) — Many Buddhists do not believe in a creator God. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/8/) — The Four Noble Truths say: life has suffering, suffering comes from craving (always wanting more), suffering can end, and the Eightfold Path leads there. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/9/) — Meditation is quiet focusing of the mind; it is central in Buddhism and used by many other people too. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/10/) — Humanists believe this life is the only one and that people can be good using reason and compassion (caring about other people's pain), without God. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/11/) — An atheist believes there is no God; an agnostic thinks we cannot know whether there is. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/12/) — Freedom of religion is the right to believe, practise, change or have no religion; it is protected in human rights law. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/13/) — Respectful language means using the names people use for themselves and their faiths and not mocking holy things. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/14/) — Respecting someone's belief does not mean you have to agree with it. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/15/) — Most faiths and humanism value honesty, kindness, care for the poor and the Golden Rule. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/16/) — Interfaith friendship means people of different beliefs learning about each other and serving the community together. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/33-buddhism-humanism-and-respect/17/) — A stereotype judges a whole group by one picture; fair facts come from reliable sources and from members of the faith themselves. - ← previous: [Hinduism and Sikhism](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/32-hinduism-and-sikhism/) - next →: [Virtues: honesty, fairness and kindness](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/34-honesty-fairness-and-kindness/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)