historia del budismo

History

Origin, expansion and diversification of the Buddhism
The Buddhism was developed starting from the teachings diffused by its founder, Siddhartha Gautama, around the century V to. C. in the northeast of India. The Buddhism began a quick expansion until ending up being the predominant religion in India in the century III to. C. In this century, the Indian emperor Asoka makes it official religion of its enormous empire, sending Buddhist monks' embassies to everybody known then. Not it will be until the century VII EC when it will begin their decline in their orígen earth, although it stops then he/she would already have expanded to many territories. In the XIII century it had arrived to their almost complete disappearance of India but he/she had spread with success for most of containing asiático.5
The Buddhism has meant a main motor in the diffusion of the escritura,6 the lenguaje,7 and the adoption of humanist values and universalistas. It is therefore the great philosophy of Asia because their practice has been able to expand to the entirety of its countries. From last century he/she has also expanded for the rest of the world. When lacking a supreme deity but to show their character salvífico and universalista at the same time, it has also been described as phenomenon transcultural,8 filosofía,9 or method of trasformación.10
The Buddhism is in followers' number one of the big religions of planeta.11 it Contains a wide variety of schools, doctrines and practical that historically and geographical low approaches are classified in Buddhism of the South, This and North.