BUDDHISM

Buddhist faith is based on four noble truths:

• Life is suffering
• Desire is the reason for suffering
• Overcoming desire will end suffering
• Finding the path to deliverance will end suffering

The faith delineates an eighfold path:

• Right understanding
• Right resolve
• Right speech
• Right action
• Right occupation
• Right effort
• Right self-mastery
• Right meditation

Buddha organized a society of monks and ordained them, as he lay dying (c. 486 B.C.): "work out your own salvation with diligence".

Buddhist shrines at the sacred places related to the life of the Buddha:

• Lumbini
• Bodh-gaya
• Sarnath
• Kusinagara
• Sravasti
• Sankasya
• Rajagriha
• Vaisali

Important monuments are at:

• Karli
• Sanchi
• Ajanta
• Ellora
• Nalanda
• Nagarjunakonda
• Amaravati
• Ratnagiri
• Takshasila (Taxila)
• Bamiyan (Afghanistan)
• Yun-kang (China)
• Horyuji monastery (Japan)
• Candi Barabadur (Java, Indonesia)
• Candi Mendut (Java, Indonesia)
• Thurarmma Dagoba, Anuradhapuram, Srilanka
• Ruvenveli Dagoba, Anuradhapuram, Srilanka
• Wata-da-ge, Polonnaruwa, Srilanka
• Monasteries in Sikkim, Ladakh, Lahaul and Spiti

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