Buddhism, A Religion Worth Understanding

Buddhism founded in 624 BC in India. Buddhism founded by Siddhartha Guatama. Siddhartha's mother, Maya, gave birth to Siddhartha in the garden of Lumbini, near Kapilavastu. Siddhartha lived in the Himalayas Mountain during his earlier years. He was born into a wealthy family. He was raised with all the luxury in the world. Siddhartha got married and his wife gave birth to a little boy named "Rahul". While his son was a newborn he shaved his head, renounced his wealth and changed into a robe.

Siddhartha headed southeast in seek of total liberation from suffering. Siddhartha did not believe of the values he has at home. So to prove this he wanted to find the bent old man, the sick person, the dead person. Through searching Siddhartha reportedly denied himself food, clothing, endure great heat exposure and cold weather. Siddhartha later was known as Shakyamuni, by his followers.

Buddhism founded in 6^th Century BC, in India. It is the Fourth Largest religion in the world. Buddhism is usually practice in China, Japan, Korea and Southeast Asia. With immigrants of Asian culture to the USA, Buddhism is now practice in many temples in The United States. Buddhism believes in rebirth and karma. Buddhism teaches qualities such as non violence, tolerance of differences as a way of life. Buddhism does not worship any gods. Instead followers are taught meditation and other techniques to reach eternal happiness. The techniques includes the Four Noble Truth, The Five Percepts, Noble Eightfold Path, Reincarnation (life after death/ known as rebirth), delusion mind and virtuous mind, cyclic existence and bad / good karma and prayers. [Further explanation of each is explained below in each paragraph]Karma