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The creator of Buddhism was

Prince Siddhartha or

Buddha

It was created to end human suffering

Main points are...

The Four Noble Truths:Teach that all life is hurting and this is caused by craving. But to reach true happiness you need to give up cravings and use more time helping others, this is known as

Nirvana

The eightfold path:The way to reach

Nirvana, that includes understanding the

noble truths, overcoming negative

thoughts, being mindful and practicing

meditation

Reincarnation:Buddhists

believe in an endless cycle of life, Death and rebirth

The Story of the creation of buddhism

The story goes... The Young prince walked out of his palace only to see a group of suffering people...

He Then thought about it for a while and worked out how unfair it was that he lived in a palace and they were suffering on the street...

The young prince then decided to dedicate the rest of his life to helping people who are suffering around India...

After a while The prince recruited many people to help him on his quest to end human suffering.

The Four Noble Truths

Dukkha

To teach The Truth about suffering

Samudaya

to Teach the truth about the cause of suffering

Nirodha

to teach the truthabout the end of suffering

Magga

Teach the truth about the Eightfold Path

The Rules of The Eightfold Path

1: KNOW THE TRUTH 2: SAY NOTHING TO HURT OTHERS 3: PRACTICE MEDITATION 4: CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS 5: RESIST EVIL 6: FREE YOUR MIND FROM EVIL 7: WORK FOR THE GOOD OF OTHERS 8: RESPECT LIFE

Reincarnation Buddhists believe that if you lead a good Buddhist life you would be reborn into a good animal. e.g. Like a dog or if you are lucky you will be reborn as a human.

If you lead a bad Buddhist life you would be reborn as a bad animal e.g. A rat

Buddhism is mainly practiced in the following regions:

The indian subcontinent, sri lanka, east asia, indochina, and regions in Russia and the Netherlands.

Is is estimated that about 350 million people follow buddhism, that is about 6% of the entire human population of the planet Earth.

THE END

Now you know everything about

buddhism!

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