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Buddhism is different from many other faiths because it is not centred on the relationship between humanity and God. Buddhists do not believe in a personal creator God. The Buddhist tradition is founded on and inspired by the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. He was called the Buddha and lived in the 4th or 5th century B.C. in India. The origin of Buddhism points to one man, Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, who was born in Lumbini (in present-day Nepal) during the 5th century BCE. Rather than the founder of a new religion, Siddhartha Gautama was the founder and leader of a sect of wanderer ascetics (Sramanas), one of many sects that existed at that time all over India. This sect came to be known as Sangha to distinguish it from other similar communities.  

There are over 500 million Buddhists today. After Buddha's death, some of his followers had some differences of opinion which eventually led to their breaking away and forming separate kinds of Buddhism. There are two main types, Theravada, which spread to Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, and Mahayana which spread to Nepal, Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan. Mahayana took on aspects of the cultures where it was practiced and became three distinct branches: Vajrayana Buddhism or Tibetan Buddhism, Pure Land Buddhism and Zen Buddhism.

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Buddhism is an oldest religions practiced today from BCE, Buddhism is based on the thoughts of siddhartha Gautama.It has first started or evolved in the northeast of India.Buddhism also the development of numerous movements, schisms, and schools, about the vedas, tradituons with contrasting periods of expansion and retreat. Shungas Dynasty - is possible that Buddhist institutions fell on harder times under the Shungas.

In the times of modern period Budddhism helps in Modern wars, communism, the growth of capitalism, science and regional political instability are also on modern Buddhism.

"Buddhism is a way of life we live and spiritual tradition"

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