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WORLD HISTORY
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Buddhism
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Catholicism
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Judaism
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Hinduism
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Detailed explanation-1: -Buddhism is one of the world’s major religions. It originated in South Asia around the 5th century B.C.E. with Siddhartha Gautama, and over the next millennia it spread across Asia and the rest of the world.
Detailed explanation-2: -Buddhism is a faith that was founded by Siddhartha Gautama (“the Buddha”) more than 2, 500 years ago in India. With about 470 million followers, scholars consider Buddhism one of the major world religions.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Buddhist religion has a known founder: Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 B.C.). Siddhartha Gautama was born into a noble Hindu family. It is said that he led a very sheltered life, never seeing the hard, painful side of life that included suffering until he was a grown man with a family.
Detailed explanation-4: -Buddhism is an ancient Indian religion, which arose in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha (now in Bihar, India), and is based on the teachings of Gautama Buddha who was deemed a “Buddha” ("Awakened One"), although Buddhist doctrine holds that there were other Buddhas before him.