Some followers of Buddhism consider it to be a religion, while others think of it as a philosophy, practice, or way of life. The reason for the discrepancy is that there are many schools of ...

The Greek colonies of Central Asia that had been left behind after the collapse of the empire of Alexander the Great had, by the 1st century BCE, largely converted from Greco-Roman paganism to ...

When the great King Anawrahta of Pagan united the whole of Burma into a single kingdom in the eleventh century and made Theravada Buddhism the national religion, there were already in existence a ...

Once Nirvana is achieved, and the enlightened individual physically dies, the belief is that they will ... souls or an eternal creator God? Anicca - Buddhism teaches that nothing is permanent.

But is the Buddhist religion, which prevails in China, much more foreign to our customs and our modes of thinking and believing than the Roman Catholic religion is? There are, in fact, many ...

it includes Tibetan and Zen Buddhism. also uses images to teach about life after death. The Wheel of Existence shows the different realms Buddhists can be reborn into. Belief in life after death ...