Buddhism

Is a non-theistic religion and philosophy with between 230 to 500 million adherents worldwide. The vast majority live in Asia. It consists of two major schools: Mahayana and Theravada. Mahayana is in turn divided into East Asian and Tibetan.

However there are many other sects besides these. These divisions reflect a combination of doctrinal differences and regional syncretism.

Buddha's real name was Siddhartha and was born in Nepal near the border with India more than 2500 year ago. He was the son of a king and married a princess called Yasodhara. His father king Suddhodana gave him everything he wanted or needed but then he realized that material wealth was not the ultimate goal of life.

The legend says that when he was 29 years old, he decided to abandon the comfortable life he had. He said goodbye to his family and went away riding a white horse. During six months he wondered and lived a life with absolutely no luxury with his hair cut to the skin and dressed with orange-red clothes. During those six months he also practiced meditation and yoga which is a practice that comes from Hinduism. One day after finishing meditating, he had a disclosure which determined him to go around the world to radiate his ideas. To make this work easier he formed a group of monks.

Since the late 19th century,Modern Buddhism has emerged as a truly international movement. It started as an attempt to produce a single form of Buddhism, without local accretions, that all Buddhists could embrace.Buddhism is based on the teachings and founded in Northern India by the first known Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. In the sixth century BCE, who lived in parts of what is now Nepal and northeast India. There are between 230 to 500 million adherents worldwide.

The big difference of Buddhism with others religions is that buddhims have not any God.They believe that pain are caused by the wishes that invade as, to get rid of this pain we most get rid of these wishes. According to this religion people do not need a God because everyone has a specific Karma that explain our beauty, intelligence and the way we are.