Definition of Buddhism

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Buddhism

The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

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Buddhism Quotations

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
Alan Watts

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.
Sandra Cisneros

All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
Barbara Walters

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.
Tina Turner

I spend more time learning about Buddhism than English, which is why my English today is still bad.
Jet Li

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.
Jet Li

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
Stanislav Grof

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.
Herbie Hancock

Buddhism Translations

Buddhism in Afrikaans is Boeddhisme
Buddhism in Dutch is boeddhisme
Buddhism in Spanish is budismo
buddhism in Swedish is buddism

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