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Humanities > Religion > Buddhism

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Buddhism  

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Definition

  • The teaching ascribed to Gautama Buddha (ca. 483 B.C.) holding that suffering is inherent in life and that one can escape it into nirvana by mental and moral self-purification. (Webster, 3d ed)

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