Essay Galaxy - Buddhism
Buddhism.
1. Buddhism is a major world religion, founded in northeastern
India and based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, who is
known as the Buddha, or Enlightened One. Buddhism today is
divided into two major branches known to their respective
followers as Theravada, the Way of the Elders, and Mahayana, the
Great Vehicle.
2. Religion and philosophy (of Buddhism) founded in India in the
6th and 5th cent. B.C. by Siddhartha Gautama, called the Buddha.
One of the great Asian religions, it teaches the practice of
Meditation and the observance of moral precepts
3. The basic doctrines include the four noble truths taught by
the Buddha: existence is suffering; the cause of suffering is
desire; there is a cessation of suffering, called Nirvana, or
total relief; and there is a path leading to the end of
suffering, the eightfold noble path of ri....
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