the
religion founded by
Gautama Buddha (563-483 B.C.). The
term Buddha derives from
Bodhi, or "one who has attained intellectual and
ethical perfection by human means." The
hope of Buddhism was, by various practices, to
break the endless
chain of births and deaths and to
reach salvation in one lifetime.
There have been comparable actions on the past track one of them when the emperor of China sent one of his people over to India to import all of the textbooks of Buddhism.