Buddhism / History and Origin

Buddhism is one of the most important Asian spiritual traditions. During its roughly 2.5 millennia of history, Buddhism has shown a flexible approach, adapting itself to different conditions and local ideas while maintaining its core teachings. As a result of its wide geographical expansion, coupled with its tolerant spirit, Buddhism today encompasses a number of different traditions, beliefs, and practices.
During the last decades, Buddhism has also gained a significant presence outside Asia. With the number of adherents estimated to be almost 400 million people, Buddhism in our day has expanded worldwide, and it is no longer culturally specific. For many centuries, this tradition has been a powerful force in Asia, which has touched nearly every aspect of the eastern world: arts, morals, lore, mythology, social institutions, etc. Today, Buddhism influences these same areas outside of Asia, as well.
The origin of Buddhism points to one man, Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, who was born in Lumbini (in present-day Nepal) during the 5th century BCE,. Rather than the founder of a new religion, Siddhartha Gautama was the founder and leader of a sect of wanderer ascetics (Sramanas), one of many sects that existed at that time all over India. This sect came to be known as Sangha to distinguish it from other similar communities.
The Sramanas movement, which originated in the culture of world renunciation that emerged in India from about the 7th century BCE, was the common origin of many religious and philosophical traditions in India, including the Charvaka school, Buddhism, and its sister religion, Jainism. The Sramanas were renunciants who rejected the Vedic teachings, which was the traditional religious order in India, and renounced conventional society.
Siddhartha Gautama lived during a time of profound social changes in India. The authority of the Vedic religion was being challenged by a number of new religious and philosophical views. This religion had been developed by a nomadic society roughly a millennium before Siddhartha’s time, and it gradually gained hegemony over most of north India, especially in the Gangetic plain. But things were different in the 5th BCE, as society was no longer nomadic: agrarian settlements had replaced the old nomad caravans and evolved into villages, then into towns and finally into cities. Under the new urban context, a considerable sector of Indian society was no longer satisfied with the old Vedic faith. Siddhartha Gautama was one of the many critics of the religious establishment.

[dreamwithinadream]

this song in background is not helping at all

[infectionSincross]

the back ground song. and just use normal voice. it woyuld have been good

[laknarajapakshe]

Buddhism wasn't origin in India. Prince gotham was born and lived in Sri Lanka. During british collonial era, the brutal authorities have distorted and ruined all evidences and robbed all historical resources to england.
#Sri Lanka🇱🇰

[afrikan]

Buddha has its origin in KEMET (now called egypt). All the ancients statues representing Buddha in Asia have an Afrikan feature. In the book, Afrikan Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality (Chiekh Anta Diop, pg 287) the author states this about the origin of Buddha: " It would seem that Buddha was an Egyptian priest, chased from Memphis by the persecutions of Cambyses. This tradition would justify the portrayal of Buddha with wooly hair. Historical documents do not invalidate this tradition. According to Diop, William Ward, who published some years ago a vast compilation of various documents on Hindu, religion, history and literature, based on extracts from books in Sanskrit, included a biographical account of Buddha, establishing that "he could not have appeared until the sixth century B.C...Buddha is given the surname Goulama, which is that of the usurper's race". -M. de Marles Histoire generale de l'lnde, Paris, 1928, I, 470-472.]. Diop went on to further state that, there is general agreement today on placing in the sixth century not only Buddha but the whole religious and philosophical movement in Asia, with Confucius in China, Zoroaster in Iran. This would confirm the hypothesis of a dispersion of Egyptian priests at that time spreading their doctrine in Asia.