Today in honors human geo we continued to go over the 5 major religions of the world. Today we covered Buddhism and Judaism. Buddhism they are the 4th largest religion in the world with 500 million to 1.5 billion followers. This is a major approximation because in many areas of the world where there are Buddhists they are not closely counted. the majority of these people that call themselves Buddhists live in Southeast Asia, China, Nepal, and Japan. Their founder is Siddhartha Gautama. there are several denominations of Buddhists. These include Tibetan, Zen, Theravada, and Amadist. these people believe in 4 Nobel truths. These truths are there is suffering, attachment to desire causes suffering, there is a cessation to suffering, and the eightfold path can lead to the cessation of suffering. This eightfold path says in order to live an enlightened life one must have right views, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right dedication.
We also went over Judaism today in class. There are about 14-18 million Jews around the world. 6.4 million of them live in Jerusalem, and 5.3-7 million of them live in the US. They were founded by Abraham. their holy book is called the Torah and includes the first 5 books of the old testament. They believe in ethical monotheism and the 10 commandments.
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