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What is the difference between Buddhism the religion and Buddhism the philosophy?

April 26, 2017buddhism difference philosophy Religion

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What is the difference between Buddhism the religion and Buddhism the philosophy?

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Rinpoche: Buddhism has both religion and philosophy. The religious part of Buddhism has a lot of rituals and prayers and worshipping many different deities. It focuses more on faith and devotion. The faith that we are talking about in Buddhism is threefold: admiring faith, inspiring faith, and trusting faith. Philosophy mainly focuses on opening our minds by gathering a lot of information about reality into our intellectual mind then to bringing it into the intelligent mind and then making it wisdom.