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buddhism

Bud.dhism \'bu:-.diz-*m, 'bu.d-.iz-\ \'bu:d-*st, 'bu.d-\ \bu:-'dis-tik, 
   bu.-\ n : a religion of eastern and central Asia growing out of the 
   teaching of Ga utama Buddha that suffering is inherent in life and that one 
   can be liberated from it by mental and moral self-purification - Bud.dhist 
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