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Siddhartha Gautama, The Buddha, did not intend to make a religion. What he was trying to do is answer the big questions of why there is suffering and how to overcome it. Those who following his teachings are called Buddhists. So Buddhism is the religion of following the Buddha's teachings. BTW: Buddha means Awakened One. We call Siddhartha Gautama The Buddha because we believe he was the first person to wake up and understand how the world really is.

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