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Buddhism is a philosophy and not a religion usually mean Buddhism as a compliment. They are trying to say, I think, that Buddhism is something other than the superstitious rubbish they believe religion to be. Buddhism Believe |
Buddhism |
Buddhism is a philosophy and not a religion usually mean Buddhism as a compliment. They are trying to say, I think, that Buddhism is something other than the superstitious rubbish they believe religion to be. Buddhism Believe |
The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Sakya tribe of Nepal, in approximately 566 BC. When he was twentynine years old, he left the comforts of his home to seek the meaning of the suffering he saw around him. After six years of arduous yogic training, he abandoned the way of self-mortification and instead sat in mindful meditation beneath a bodhi tree. The Buddha wandered the plains of northeastern India for 45 years more, teaching the path or Dharma he had realized in that moment. Buddhism developed a community or Sangha of monks and, later, nuns, drawn from every tribe and caste, devoted to practicing this path. In approximately 486 BC, at the age of 80, the Buddha died.