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Buddhist Diversity
Dale S. Wright
in Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How and when did Buddhism spread beyond its origins in northeastern India?
Buddhism began expanding out from its birthplace during the Buddha’s life, and that process continues ...
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Buddhist Practices
Dale S. Wright
in Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the relationship between Buddhist teachings and the practice of Buddhism?
Buddhist practices are spiritual activities or exercises intentionally undertaken to cultivate the ...
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Buddhist Teachings
Dale S. Wright
in Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Do Buddhists believe in God?
As you may have noticed, our discussions so far have hardly mentioned God. Buddhist teachings aren’t oriented around a theistic concept of God, God as ...
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Contemporary Global Buddhism
Dale S. Wright
in Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is Buddhism a religion, and if so in what sense?
This question has perplexed Westerners ever since their first encounters with Buddhism in the eighteenth century. Early ...
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Introduction
Dale S. Wright
in Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why would everyone need to know anything about Buddhism? One important reason is that no matter who you are or where you live, Buddhism is part of your cultural environment. Whether we know ...
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Origins and Early History
Dale S. Wright
in Buddhism: What Everyone Needs to Know®
When and where did Buddhism begin?
Like Christianity and Islam, the last two of the five major world religions to emerge, Buddhism has an identifiable founder, Siddhartha Gautama, ...
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