Buddhism

How it started Buddhism arrived from ___________via the ___________ but became

China's main religion. Prince Siddhartha ___________left his wealthy life to become a ________

to try to end suffering. (His father, wanting to keep him from the sorrows of the world, hadn’t let him out.)

After ________________ under a _____ tree for _________ weeks, he came up with the _______ _______ Truths and the __________ Path.

He spent 40 years spreading his message throughout India. Today, there are more than ____ million Buddhists in the world.

Key Beliefs Buddhists also believe in the Middle Way: ____________, which is not

living in excess-- no self-indulgence or deprivation. The Middle Way is the name Buddhists call lives guided by the laws of the Eightfold Path, not too strict or too easy.

_______________(being born again as something else). You only break the chain by ending ____________. You can only get _____________, a state of complete peace, by escaping the cycle of reincarnation.

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