Initially, in the late 1200s and 1300s, Islamic merchants from Arabia and East Africa had interactions with Indonesian merchants, especially in the Banda Aceh region of northern Sumatra. These contacts resulted in willful and free religious conversions by many Acehnese to Islam. In the following centuries, when Islam was the dominant religion among the Acehnese, the Acehnese Sultante conquered numerous islands in the Indonesian archipelago resulting in discriminatory legal practices against non-Muslims in their empire. This led to large conversions of Indonesians from Syncretic Forms of Buddhism to Syncretic Forms of Islam to avoid these discriminatory treatments.
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Although it depends upon how the word "religion" is defined, Buddhism does not come under any religion. It is its own way of life. It is sometimes understood as an offshoot of Hinduism. .
Buddhism
19th - 21 century.
3 religions. Jainism, Buddhism, & Sikhism.
Buddhism is not a religion. It is a culture of the mind. It is an education where you are to explore the mind to understand Nature. Unlike a religion where there are commandments to obey, Buddhism encourarage you to "come and experience". Every thing in the universe is gorverned by the Laws of Nature; Buddhism show you the path to return one being to the true Nature by rightly understand the true nature of existence in order to liberate from mental and physically Suffering.ANSWER 2:Buddhism IS the name of the religion. While most of what has been written above is correct, a religion is defined as having clergy and holy scriptures, both of which are found in Buddhism.
Buddha came from India. Buddhists who first followed into his belief are also originally from India. But today the religion Buddhism is a spread world wide!
where did the first ever evacuees come from where did the first ever evacuees come from
Buddhism is a religion based in the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as 'Buddha'. Although widely spread all around the world, Buddhism has not a great presence in the Caribbean. It was until the year 2006 that the first Buddhist temple was raised in this region, by May Trieu, a Chinese Buddhist born in Vietnam.
For the same reason that Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Jainism, Hinduism, and every other religion out there is not the same as it was when it was first created. Religion, as an aspect of culture, is not static. It grows and changes along with the people who believe in it.
Buddhism began in Northern India / Nepal in approximately 528 BCE.
I do not know, but I hope she can come to Indonesia