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ANCIENT INDIA

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Which sentence best supports the topic sentence, “One of the goals of Buddhism is to create relative peace among its followers”? “[1] According to Buddha, following an Eightfold Path by conducting a life of discipline, mindfulness and meditation will lead a person to enlightenment, a state of inner peace. [2] Buddhists believe that nirvana is the highest state that someone can attain, meaning a person’s individual desires and suffering go away. [3] At this point, they will no longer be reincarnated to earthly suffering”
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Sentence 1
B
Sentence 2
C
Sentence 3
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Noble Eightfold Path (also called the Middle Way, or the Threefold Way) is the fourth part (magga) of the Four Noble Truths . It gives Buddhists a path they can follow to end suffering.

Detailed explanation-2: -As people born into this world, we have to do three things to fulfill our goal as Buddhists: do no harm, do only good, and purify our mind.

Detailed explanation-3: -The major teachings of Buddhism are to escape suffering of this world, by following a middle path that will allow reincarnation at a higher state, and to achieve enlightenment and be released from the cycle of reincarnation to reach a state of nirvana.

Detailed explanation-4: -Eightfold Path, Pali Atthangika-magga, Sanskrit Astangika-marga, in Buddhism, an early formulation of the path to enlightenment. The idea of the Eightfold Path appears in what is regarded as the first sermon of the founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha, which he delivered after his enlightenment.

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