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Buddhism
People who are Buddhist follow the teaching of Siddhartha Gautama, given the title of Buddha – ‘the enlightened or awakened one.’
The Buddha lived in northern India in the 5th and 6th centuries BC. He spent many years trying to understand the cause of suffering and find the way to end it, before he reached enlightenment. Buddhists believe that we are tied to the cycles of death and birth through desire and can be born again in many different forms. But they believe they can find a way to escape this cycle, to be finally free from reincarnation to reach nirvana. The Buddha’s teaching are a guide for all Buddhists, who try to perfect the qualities of wisdom, compassion and harmlessness. Eventually they can be ‘awakened’ to obtain the highest peace and freedom which is nirvana.