COMPARISON OF BUDDHIST TEACHING WAYS TO ALLEGORY’S INTERPRETATION

Abstract

Buddhist teaching ways are teaching strategies of the Buddha. Some of them differ with sense of listeners and some of them contrast to sense of listeners by focusing on approaching the principle. Allegory in Theravada Buddhism is taken past events to compare present events in order to get similarity and difference of them, which is called “Jataka”. It focuses on making listeners trust in the principle which is characteristic for enlightenment and approaching each level of principle. On the other hand, allegory’s interpretation of western philosophers tried interpreting abstract into concrete with analogy, symbols, and describing. They required to get more reasons of believing in God and it was described and interpreted from latter times, it was not described and interpreted by religious principle