A major religion based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha or "enlightened one," who lived in Northern India at the foot of the Himalayas in the 6th century BCE. Rejecting his luxurious upbringing, Siddhartha set out as a wandering ascetic — a person who suffers severe physical hardships as part of his/her religious practice. Eventually Siddhartha rejected this extreme also, choosing what he called the "middle path" to enlightenment and freedom from life’s pain. Opposed to violence and cruelty of any kind, the Buddha dined with "untouchable" outcasts and taught people to let go of attachments and illusion. Buddhism has been a major spiritual, moral, and intellectual influence on Central, Southern, and East Asia.
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A world religion, founded in the 6th century BCE by Siddhartha Gautama, (Buddha). It has about 300 million followers, almost all located in Asia.
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An Asian religion founded by Buddha in the 5th Century B.C.. Buddha taught that people can only find peace and wisdom when they learn to control their feelings and desires. Buddhists believe in reincarnation, or re-birth.
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The oldest, prevalent missionary faiths. Its essential message is that earthly life is impermanent and full of suffering. The cycle of birth, death, and rebirth can be ended through enlightenment, which is achieved through Buddhist faith and practice.
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A religious doctrine, one branch of which - the Chan school, or Zen - is closely connected to the practice of the martial arts.
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Buddhism was established as a religion through the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama who was born a Hindu prince in Nepal around 563 BCE. Through meditation, Siddhartha awoke to a full consciousness beyond suffering, and he taught others to follow his path by understanding the Four Noble Truths. Most Buddhists also live by the concepts of karma and reincarnation. (For more information about Buddhism, click here.)
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A religion that started in the Eastern world that believes in Reincarnation.
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non-orthodox form of Vedic / Aryan teaching founded by the Buddha or enlightened one
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A system of spiritual cultivation based on the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, the aim of which is to achieve enlightenment.
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A philosophical tradition, founded by Gautama Siddhartha Buddha in the fifth century b.c., that took on various forms as a religion and spread throughout Asia; Buddhism attempts to help the individual conquer the suffering and mutability of human existence through the elimination of desire and ego and attainment of the state of nirvana.
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(pg. 234) Pure Buddhism stressed happiness in an after-life rather than finding peace, or enlightenment in life on earth. It taught that believers would be reborn in a pure land. Bushido: The way of the warrior. It represented a religious commitment to the military life. A heroic death in battle was the samurai's most honorable goal. Daimyo: Nobles who owned large estates in the provinces. A daimyo relied on samurai warriors to protect his estate. Feudalism: A political and economic system in which large landholders or lords gave protection to people in return for their service to the landholder.
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A rational, deep and sphoisticated approach to human life which does not emphasize something eternal but rather emphasizes personal responsibility for inner development.
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In Chinese: Fojiao An Indian and Chinese philosophy discovered by The Buddha.
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Religious philosophy based on the teachings of Buddha "the enlightened one", originally Siddhartha Gautama. There are several forms of Buddhism, among which the most practiced in the World are: Theravada Buddhism (Way of the Elders), Mahayana Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism, Nichiren Buddhism (Lotus Sect), and Tibetan Buddhism (Lamaism)...
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Buddha literally means "awakened one". One who has awakened to his or her own inner nature, and therefore the true nature of reality. It is experiencing the truth for oneself, its the quest for enlightment.
 

A religion founded in India by Gautama the Buddha. It later spread to China, Burma, Japan, and other part of southeast Asia. It holds that life is full of suffering caused by desire and that the way to end this suffering is through enlightenment that allows one to halt the endless cycle of births and deaths.
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a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha
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the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth
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