The Practical Philosophy of Buddha

The sixth century B. C. saw the birth of one of the greatest living religions of the world in the Indian sub-continent-Buddhism, its preacher being the Siddhartha, popularly known as "The Buddha" or the Enlightened One. Buddha was born around 563 BCE in Lumbini, Nepal and died around 483 BCE in Kushi Nagar (India). He was 80. Buddhism sowed its seed in India andgradually spread over Nepal, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, China, Japan, Indonesia and other lands, making it almost the first international missionary religion of the world.The man who founded Buddhism did not preach any form of worship, did not recognize any personal deity, did not reply to metaphysical questions, but was worshipped and glorified by innumerable disciples-the concrete proofs we have, being the great number of Buddhist temples spread over the whole of Asia, what was, then, the secret of the spread of Buddhism?The simplest answer would be 'its practical this-world attitude'.