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How to pronounce lumbini?

[lán pí ní].

Buddhism originated in Kapylowei Kingdom (present-day Nepal) in ancient India. The founder of Buddhism, Sakyamuni, is the prince of Sakyamuni nationality. He was born in Lumbini, Nepal today. From the 6th century BC to the 5th century BC, Sakyamuni founded Buddhism in ancient India. When he was a teenager, he felt that things were changeable and thought deeply about ways to get rid of the suffering of life. Becoming a monk at the age of 29.

After becoming a Buddha, he publicized the truth he realized to the public in the middle of the Ganges River valley in India, and more and more believers came, thus organizing religious groups and forming Buddhism.

Buddhism was originally popular only in the Ganges valley in central India. During the Peacock Dynasty, King Ashoka regarded Buddhism as the state religion, extensively built stupas, carved decrees and doctrines on cliffs and stone pillars, and spread to many places in the South Asian subcontinent. At the same time, teachers were sent to neighboring countries to preach, starting from Myanmar in the east, Sri Lanka in the south and Syria and Egypt in the west, making Buddhism gradually become a world religion.

Buddhism spread to all parts of Asia, which can be roughly divided into two routes: first from the south to Sri Lanka, and then from Sri Lanka to Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. It spread northward to China via Pamirs, and then from China to Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries.

/kloc-At the end of 0/9 and the beginning of the 20th century, Buddhism was first introduced to Europe and North America. 1906, the British Buddhist Association was established in Britain, and European Buddhists began to have their own organizations. Later, there were Buddhist monks and research institutions in Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other countries. After Buddhism was introduced into the United States, it spread to Canada in the north and to Brazil, Peru, Argentina and other countries in the south.