Buddhism is an Indian system of beliefs that was passed on to China by Central Asian traders and Buddhist monks in early AD. Later it passed onto Korea by the fourth century and Japan by the sixth. It had a great impact in all three cultures. Even though there is evidence that indicates that Buddhism was in China as early as 50 AD, the influence of Buddhism did not make a great impact in China until the patronage of the early Six Dynasties Neo-Daoists brought a more powerful attention of the literate elite. From that moment, Buddhism became an influential force in China, and for centuries it became as dominant as a religion and intellectual force as Confucianism or the emerging traditions of religious Daoism.
The person who founded Buddhism was a prince in Indian from a northern tribe who lived around the year 500 B.C. the prince name was
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He changed his name to, the Buddha, which means the awakened one, and at the heart of the Buddha’s he wanted to teach people to engage and adopt certain practices that would let the see that they were blinded and living in such deep ignorance that they said to be asleep of the truth, and that only those who followed the Buddha’s teachings would awake to reality.
When Gautama emerged from meditation from the forest as the new enlightened one he immediately started to preach about his revelations, the Buddhist law of truth, or also known as Dharma. Even though many different Buddhist schools have different versions of what the Buddha really preached, everyone can agree about, The Four Noble Truths. This are the Buddha’s most basic