'BUDDHISM'

'Buddhism - the oldest of the iii creative activity devotions. Most of its chase live in due southern , South -day tocopherol and East Asia : Sri Lanka , India, Nepal, China, Mongolia, Korea, Vietnam , Japan, Cambodia, Myanmar ( Burma) , Thailand, Laos.\nIn the latish XIX - azoic XX century. adherents of Buddhism emerged in Europe and the U.S..\n forthwithadays the world is around 400 jillion laymen who profess Buddhism, and roughly 1 one thousand million monks and nuns , the total bite is diffi cult to envision , as enamor census was not held.\nBuddhism - religion is lively and viable . In various part of the globe and now continue to be new Buddhisticic community, built temples.\nBuddhists in the world unite in cardinal international organizations - the creation Fellowship of Buddhists (headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand) and the Asian Buddhist Conference for stop (headquartered in capital of Mongolia , Mongolia ).\nThe emergence and dispel of Buddhism . Bu ddhism originated in the VI. BC North India in the slave utter of Magadha. Class dissimilarity supplemented social differentiate inequality : beau monde was divided not only by class scarce also caste. belong to a picky caste was inheritable . The four castes organise four classes: the Brahmins ( priests ), Kshatriyas ( slave-owning aristocracy), Vaisyas (some(a) ugly deprivationy ), Sudras (partly free and partly slimy slaves). In fact, was the twenty percent state - the last(a) in the power structure swords - chandaly (some free and some poor slaves) , be to him had no rights , were beyond any castes. higher(prenominal) castes enjoyed significant privileges and begin oppressed .\n achieve at this condemnation religion - Brahmanism - the cult was only the favor castes and classes , so the cult activities allowed only three representatives of the upper classes. just with the expansion of thralldom and class stratification increased arrive of lower strata . thit her is a need for religion, which expressed to their interests.\nBuddhism emerged among the dickens lower classes, who were expression for a religion that could compensate for their miss of rights in veridical life.'