{"id":304,"date":"2014-11-29T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/escrituras-eremitas.com\/english\/?p=304"},"modified":"2014-11-29T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-29T00:02:58","slug":"buddhism-religion-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/escrituras-eremitas.com\/english\/2014\/11\/29\/buddhism-religion-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy?<\/h2>\n
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“The thinker” by Augustine Rodin<\/a>, usually used to represent Philosophy<\/p><\/div>\n

Buddhism can be puzzling for someone brought up within one of the great monotheistic traditions such as Christianity or Islam. Although Buddhist traditions give a place to devotion and ceremony, Buddhism has no dogmas, no single great book. It involves no worship of a god. What Buddhism does have is a mass of teachings that in other traditions would be considered to lie within the realm of philosophy or psychology. For this reason there has been much doubts as to whether Buddhism is a religion at all.<\/p>\n

Buddhism certainly does not fit into the template for religion created in the Western world. Whether that signifies that Buddhism is not a religion at all, or that it is simply a different kind of religion, is a moot point. To put the argument for the second possibility, it might be said that whereas the religions that grew up in the Middle East are essentially belief systems, Buddhism is a system of education.<\/p>\n

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