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How is Buddism a religion as opposed to a set of ideas on how to live life?
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∙ 8y ago
I would say that in general, the distinction between a "religion" and "set of ideas on how to live life" is in the fact that in a religion, a belief in some supernatural force - for example, God, or gods - plays an important role. As far as I know, Buddhism, too, has such beliefs.
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∙ 8y ago
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∙ 8y agoThere is a concept of spiritual help, or the divine, in Mahayana Buddhism. Individuals following this path believe they can receive spiritual help from others who have died and have "stayed behind" in order to help others who ask for it in prayer, meditation, or other means. This would be considered more spiritual or religious in nature, as they are making petitions to beings they consider to be higher than themselves that are spirit beings.
In Theravada Buddhism, there is considered to be little to no spiritual help out there, but instead a personal struggle to gain enlightenment through meditation and self focus on what they believe to be a true reality. They do feel they need to be reunited with the true reality in order to escape the suffering of this life, but it is an individual course. This could be considered more an idea on how to live based on the teachings of the Buddha and not as an official or traditional religion since there are no petitions to spiritual beings.
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