Buddhism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...the dharma, or religious teaching, and the Buddha. Lay practices...containing relics) predate Buddhism and gave rise to later ritualistic...devotional practices. Early Buddhism India during the lifetime...ideas of that tradition. Buddhism, which denied both the efficacy...system, and which spread its teachings using vernacular languages...