Teachings of Buddha -
(i) Buddha’s teachings are reconstructed from stories
(ii) These stories are found in ‘Sutta Pitaka’
(iii) They describe his miraculous powers
(iv) They let us about how Buddha tried to convince people through reason and persuasion rather than through supernatural powers
(v) He convinced a woman who was in grief over the death of a child about the variable nature of death and did not advice her to bring back her son to life
(vi) He spoke in a simple language which common people could understand
(vii) He said, world is transient (Anicca) and constantly changing
(viii) It is soulless and there is nothing permanent about the world
(ix) By following the path of moderation, human beings can rise above these worldly troubles
(x) Existence of God is irrelevant to Buddhism
(xi) Buddha considered social world as the creation of humans rather than divine origin
(xii) He advocated that people should follow ethics and be humane.
(xiii) He believed that individual effort can change social relations
(xiv) Individual agency and righteous action as the means to escape from the cycle of rebirth