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Buddhism
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there are well over 2000 sects of buddhism and they run the entire gammit. To try and sum up the religion as this or that is impossible. Take my two friends for example: Both born and raised buddhist, both were foreign students who came to the states to study. One was Chinese, one was Japanese.
The first friend practiced a form of buddhism that was a lot like islam or christianilty where buddha was a drop in replacement for christ. He prayed to buddha 5 times a day, and referred to him as his g-d. His church had also gone through the trouble of trying to prove they were the oldest, and therefore the truest religion like so many fundamentalist christians try to do.
The other one was an adamant believer that the only thing special about buddha. The only thing that made him remotely interesting was that he happened to be the one that came up with all this stuff. And then he was quick to say that any one could have done this, he just happened to be the one. He was definitely along the line that this is a philosophy for living.
