budismo

budismo

A philosophical tradition, founded by Gautama Siddhartha Buddha in the fifth century b. C. , that took on various forms as a religion and spread throughout Asia; Buddhism attempts to help the individual conquer the suffering and mutability of human existence through the elimination of desire and ego and attainment of the state of nirvana.

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