Buddha

Buddha
Founded	unknown value
Mai kafa gindi	Gautama Buddha
Classification	addini Indian religions (en) Buddha
Practiced by	Buddhist (en) da saṅgha (en)
Branches	school of Buddhism (en)

Buddha addini ne wanda ya samo asali daga Indiya, bisa koyarwar Siddhartha Gautama, wanda daga baya ake kira Gautama Buddha. Buddha shi ne wanda aka ce ya farka zuwa gaskiyar rayuwa.

A cikin karnoninsa koyarwarsa ta bazu daga Nepal zuwa Asiya ta Tsakiya, Tibet, Sri Lanka, kudu maso gabashin Asiya, Sin, Mongolia, Koriya, Japan, da yanzu Turai da Arewa da Kudancin Amurka. Addinin Buddha mabiya ɗariƙar Theravada yafi yawa a Kudancin Asiya; Mahayana ya kara arewa. Addinin Buddha ya wanzu a cikin ɓangarori daban-daban a yau, to amma duk makarantu da ƙungiyoyi suna da ra'ayoyi na yau da kuma kullum. Kimanin kashi bakwai cikin ɗari na mutanen duniya mabiya addinin Buddha ne.

Duk da yake mutane da yawa suna ganin addinin Buddha a matsayin addini, ^[1] wasu suna ganinsa a matsayin falsafa, wasu kuma a matsayin hanyar gano gaskiya . ^{[2] [3]}

1. ↑ Chambers Dictionary, 2006; Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 2003; New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions, 1998; Dewey Decimal System of Book Classification
2. ↑ For example: Thich Nhat Hanh, Path White Clouds|Old Path White Clouds For example: Dorothy Figen, Is Buddhism a Religion? Archived 2008-01-06 at the Wayback Machine
3. ↑ For example: Narada Thera, Buddhism in a Nutshell, http://www.buddhanet.net/nutshell03.htm