Buddhism (bo dizm)

[ charity, temperance, justice, honesty, truth-insures a sojourn in heaven, followed by a higher existence on the Buddhism earth; disobedience insures a punishment in some of the innumerable hot and cold hells (see naraka ), situated in the interior of the earth or on its furthest verge, followed by a lower state of existence on earth; the supreme felicity to be attained by perfect obedience is the suppre ion of every pa ion and desire, and eventually Nirvana, or unconscious existence, if indeed Nirvana be not annihilation. In its original spirit agnostic, if not atheistic, it has become modified in time, and now has its rites and temples, which vary in different nationalities and localities. From India Buddhism spread over Ceylon, Java, Cochin China, Burma, Tibet, Mongolia, Tatary, China, and Japan, but was stamped out in India by the rise of Hinduism. Also spelled Boodhism.