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Buddhism is a word used to signify the overall body of thought (and its followers) proposed by the Buddha some 2500 years ago in northern India or Nepal.

To the adherents, Buddhism means there is a way out of the ongoing cycle of death and rebirth with its attendant suffering.

it is a religion

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