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Buddhism is one of the world's great belief systems founded by Siddhartha Guatama, the Buddha or enlightened one, who was born in Nepal around 563 BCE, the son of a king of the Sakyas tribe. Buddhism does not recognise a God and denies the existence of a permanent self. These Buddhism and facts books explore how Buddhism advocates Karma, whereby all deeds have a positive or negative consequence in this or future lives, and that rebirth is the outcome of this. The task of those who follow Buddhism is to break the chain of Karma, with its endless cycle of rebirths and thereby attain the dissolution of consciousness in nirvana. |
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