"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and the spiratual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity." - Albert Einstein

Buddhism is a peaceful religion that began about 2,500 years ago in northern India by a man named Siddhara Gautama, later known as the Buddha. Today Buddhism is practiced throughout the world, especially in southern Asia. There are four main types of Buddhism; Theravada, which is the dominate form of Buddhism in southeast Asia; Mahayana, which is mainly practiced in northern Asia , mostly around China; Tibetan Buddhism, which formed from years of isolation in Tibet, and modern Buddhism, which arose after an attempt to create one dominate form of the religion.