About Buddhism

Buddhism is a world religion, named after its founder Buddha. At the luxury living, Buddha was impressed by an elderly, a patient, one dead and a monk so much that he decided the transience of the world to be overcome as ascetic. According felt Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian prince, a deep aversion to its rich citizens lives and left with 29 years secretly his family. At the age of 35 years, he came through a “middle way” between asceticism and abundance (religious restriction) to enlightenment under a fig tree at Bodh Gaya in India. Then he founded with 5 ascetics a monk orders and moved with his followers teaching in North India. In addition to the legendary Siddhartha Gautama Buddhism knows other heralds in his past and future, who reached on its own power to enlightenment.

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