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Monday, December 5, 2011
Buddhism
The other main religion that is practiced in India is Buddhism. I am not sure that we could Buddhism a religion. It is actually a series of believes based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama or Buddha, which means the awakened one. As oppose to other religions, Buddha did not receive revelations from any God, he just sat in a mountain far away from the city and he meditated. It was through meditation that Buddha could come up with the ideas that he later taught. The "religion" was later spread to other parts of the world like China, where there are many Buddhist temples. One of the central concepts of Buddhism is the concept of Karma, the belief that all our actions have a consequence. From now on, any time you do something wrong, and somebody tells you that Karma will follow you, you would know where the original concept came from.
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Siddhartha Gautama
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