RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
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centered in Hong Kong.
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restricted to Asian people.
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a universal religion.
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exactly like Hinduism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The basic premise is that three religions, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam, stand out as universalizing religions, having spread throughout the world. Although these three are prominently emphasized, other religions are included.
Detailed explanation-2: -Buddhism is the oldest of the world’s universalizing religions, with millions of adherents clus-tered in East and Southeast Asia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hinduism embraces universalism by conceiving the whole world as a single family that deifies the one truth, and therefore it accepts all forms of beliefs and dismisses labels of distinct religions which would imply a division of identity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Buddhism is a non-theistic religion (no belief in a creator god), also considered a philosophy and a moral discipline, originating in India in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE.