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First off Buddhism has no gods, no prophets. The ideas of Buddhism were developed about 2500 years ago by a man named Sidartha Gautama, later knowm as Buddha, in northern India by observation, meditation and thinking. He concluded that:
All people's lives contains a degree of dissatisfaction. We are not happy with what we've got, we want more. etc.
This dissatisfaction and the desire to correct it leads to sadness.
However there is a way to escape this sadness, it involves the identification and control of desire.
There is is a route to this state of improved happiness.
These four points are known as the four noble truths. The route is the eightfold path.
In Buddhism you get many lifetimes (reincarnation) of trying to gain the control of desire until you reach an enlightened state like Buddha's. An enlightened person can enter Nirvana when he dies, a state of unity with all sentient beings which is nor happy sad or anything. Alternately he can return to Earth to help others pursue enlightenment,
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