Enlightenment in Buddhism

In my brief stint as a religious studies major, I preferred Pure Land Buddhism, an alternate path to enlightenment for people who ( as one professor told us) may find it difficult to abandon worldly pain and passion because those things can also yield such beauty and comfort.

在我短暂的研究宗教的时期，我更喜欢净土宗，它提供另一种开悟方法，（一位教授告诉我们）适合那些很难抛弃世俗痛苦和激情的人，因为那些东西也能产生美和安慰。

Buddhism was well accepted in the areas inhabited by the Han Chinese, who believed that Sakyamuni, the first Buddha and founder of the religion, attained enlightenment on the eighth day of the twelfth month.

在汉族人居住的地区，佛教被广泛地接受，人们相信第一个佛和佛教的创始人释迦牟尼在第十二个月的第八天得到了启发。

"To attain buddhahood in the way of sudden enlightenment"," to understand the order of the Tian by meditation" and "to be a unity with Dao" are core ideas of Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism and Daoism.

中国佛教讲“顿悟成佛”，儒家讲“体认天理”，道家讲“与道合一”，儒、释、道三家在修行理论上都注重“顿悟”、“体证”。