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A religion that starts by telling you life is suffering, then hands you the receipt and the refund policy.
means A religion and philosophy founded on the teachings of the Buddha, centered on understanding suffering, its causes, and the path to liberation from it.
from From 'Buddha,' meaning 'the awakened one,' from the Sanskrit root 'budh' — to wake up, to know, to perceive. The founder was born a prince named Siddhartha Gautama, in what is now the Nepal-India border region, around the 5th or 6th century BCE. The word 'Buddhism' itself is a later Western coinage, an English label stitched onto an ancient tradition that never called itself by that name — practitioners traditionally spoke simply of 'the teaching' or 'the path.'
- buddha meaning
- Means the awakened one, not a proper name
- no creator god
- Many schools skip a supreme deity entirely
- middle way
- Buddha rejected both luxury and starvation diets
- nirvana
- Literally means to blow out, like a candle