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The Buddhist religion was first started in and India over two-thousand-
five-hundred years ago. Buddhism is the largest religion in the Far East and
been seen as different forms of the Buddhist religion to clarify this I will use
the example of how some Buddhist practice different believes, such as some
worshiping of God, and some completely reject both and just practice the act
of meditation. But even though this religion can change from place to place
Many people associate the bald headed monks wearing capes with the
monks with capes, but this gives the religion a more practice your believes
the reality of it” more than practicing things physically. Buddha was known
to be the enlightened one, after becoming the enlightened one he taught the
way to end world suffering. To start we had to understand the true nature of
of having a living God, the nature of the universe, and the afterlife. Since
not.
500 BCE. According to the old tradition Siddhartha was a wealthy prince
sheltered away. This prince had never seen any life difficulties such as
sickness, poverty, distress and so on. One day Siddhartha saw an old man, a
sick man, a poor man, and a corps. Shocked at what he had seen the young
prince became distressed at the sight of such suffering of the people. As the
story goes the young prince left his royal home in order to find
“enlightenment.” The young prince then sat under a tree, and vowed not to
move until he was “enlightened.” Day later after he had fist sat under that
tree the prince finally arose from under the tree, now being Buddha the
Enlightened one. Buddha then spent the rest of his forty-five years of life
In these days there are 360 million members of the Buddhist religion.
The ironic part though is the fact that Buddhism started in Indian, and now
Buddhism is pretty much extinct there, but in China, Japan, and South East
Asia it is still easy to find. In the United States there are over 1 million
Buddhists, and quite the few Buddhist Jews. One of the most famous
Buddhist concepts of the United States is the act of mediation. The Buddhist
Jazmin Espinoza