Liberation from Suffering from the Point of the Quranic and Buddhism Teachings

Man is created in the hardship and faces different difficulties during his life. The management of difficulties helps him to release from sufferings and reveals the path of the peacefulness at the heart of the pains. In the other hand, the absence of the management causes Psychological disorders and dissatisfaction with life. Some religions according to their own weltanschauung (world view) present programs to manage difficulties in order to facility or eliminate them. The Quranic teachings of Islam and its Islamic religious leaders’ teachings and Buddhism teachings have stated methods to achieve this thing. This paper with analytic-descriptive method aims to find Islam and Buddhism approaches to release from pain and to compare and analyze them in the schematic form. The Quran with acceptance of pain and suffering in human life in the different cases believes that it is purposefulness and the profundity of it is good and right and it is a mean to perfection. Islam in a general and total look divides it in to three categories: reflection of deeds, atonement (kafareh) for sin or a back ground for individual perfection. In other side, Buddhism with a pessimistic look to undesirable happenings in human life does not state the goal for suffering which is a universal feature of all existence include man and to free from suffering (the end of suffering) necessarily happens after practicing the eight-fold path. After stating the problem and concept ology of it, this paper aims to present methods (strategies) for liberating from suffering and analyze it.