The Wheel of Dharma

The Wheel of Dharma, the teachings of Buddha, which includes the Sutra of the Four Noble Truths and, the teachings of the Hinayana, or Lesser Vehicle, of Buddhism. Later, Buddha taught the second and third Wheels of Dharma, which include the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras and the Sutra Discriminating the Intention. In the Hinayana teachings, Buddha explains how to to get liberation from suffering for oneself alone. In the Mahayana teachings he explains how to get full enlightenment, or Buddhahood.

The Noble Eightfold Path

The fourth out of the Four Noble Truths is that when suffering is overcome, Buddhists go to a peaceful afterlife called Nirvana. The routine of overcoming suffering and going to Nirvana is called the Noble Eightfold Path. The Noble Eightfold Path is divided into eight different steps. These steps are right understanding, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right meditation. These different rules are divided into three different categories which are wisdom, ethical conduct, and meditation. These different rules are represented by a wheel. The wheel (shown here) has eight different posts that represent the the eight different rules in the Noble Eightfold Path.

The Four Noble Truths

The Four Noble Truths were created by Buddha. These Four Noble Truths were to help and inspire others. The first noble truth is that life is awful and is filled with suffering and pain. Some examples of suffering and pain are depression and physical pain or a sickness. This first truth is known as dukkah in the language Pali. The second truth is that suffering has a cause and a craving. These cravings are for a desire. The second truth also seeks the cause of suffering. This is the tanha. The third truth is that this craving or desire can be overcome and can lead to happiness. This is the niordha. The last noble truth is achieving this pain and suffering by the Eightfold Path.

Rule # 5: Thirty-Seven qualities

In Buddism,bodhipakṣa dharma is the qualities of the dhamma related to (pakkhiya) Enlightenment (bodhi).

In the Pali, the use bodhipakkhiya dhamma is used to refer to the seven sets of such qualities mentioned by the Buddha. In those seven sets of Enlightenment qualities, there are a total of thirty-seven individual qualities

These seven sets of qualities are used by the two branches of Buddhism which are, Theravada and Mahayana Buddhists as sources of the Buddhist Path to Enlightenment.

Rule # 4: Dukkha

The Buddha himself on Dukkha:

This, bhikkhus, is the Noble Truth of Dukkha: Birth is dukkha, aging is dukkha, sickness is dukkha, death is dukkha. Presence of objects we loathed is dukkha; separation from what we love is dukkha; not getting what is wanted is dukkha. In short, the five clinging-aggregates are dukkha.

— SN 56.11

Apparently, dukkha can make reference to many unpleasant events in different degrees. From what I read it can range from discomfort to suffering.

Source:

1. ^ MN 63, trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu, retrieved from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.063.than.html
2. ^ SN 22.86, trans., Thanissaro Bhikkhu, retrieved from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn22/sn22.086.than.htm

* Some of the phrasing of the words have been changed to be worded in my own words*

Proselytism in Buddhism

Proselytism is the act or attempt of converting one into a different religion. In Christianity there is a belief in converting. However, buddhists think differentlty than this. Buddhists do not believe in converting. They believe that everyone is allowed to practice any religion they choose.

Systematized

After researching for hours, my partner and I were unable to find any record or source of systematizing being used in the Buddhism religion. But what we were able to find was a book called Indian Buddhism, by Hajime Nakamura which tackles the issue with systematizing in chapter 6 PG 321. Unfortunately we are unable to obtain this book.