Buddhism

Religion of more than half the human race. Siam, Its present strongholds are Ceylon, Burmah, Siam, Farther India, Tonquin. Java, Nepaul, Thibet, China, Mongolia, and Japan. India, the cradle of the creed, saw Buddhism degenerate into gro idolatry and finally become extirpated by the Brahmans after sanguinary struggles ab. 600 A. D. It is atheistic in that it ignores any mode of personal existence compatible with the idea of spiritual perfection, but it a umes that the same condition awaits the emancipated soul as is enjoyed by the Supreme Mind. This NIRVANA (q.v.), or Perfect Rest, is the Highest Good. The basis of Buddhism is sorrow. The Four Truths 1. The reality of misery. 2. Its cause or accumulation. are: 3. The po ibility of its destruction. 4. The way, or requisite means. The way has 8 stages: Right views, aims, speech, con duct, effort, means of livelihood, mindfulne , and rapture. Along the way there are ten fetters to be broken, and to live according to the 8 stages and to have broken all these fetters constitute the Buddhist ideal of life. IMG:content-0636.png:[graphic] Colo al Statue of Buddha at Kamakoura, Japan. Budding. Peculiar propagative proce of forming new cells, obtaining in the Saccharomycetes and certain other fungi; also called sprouting. More commonly, the appearance of buds on flowering plants.