1Buddhism is a nontheistic religion or dharma,
2According to Buddhist tradition, Buddha lived and taught in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent  
3Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama,Shakyamuni, or simply the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. He is believed to have lived and taught mostly in eastern India sometime between the sixth and fourth centuries 
4two major extant branches of Buddhism are generally recognized: Theravada and Mahayana
                                                             
                                                              5The Noble Eightfold Path—the fourth of the Buddha's Noble Truths—consists of a set of eight interconnected factors or conditions, that when developed together, lead to the cessation of dukkha Buddhist 
6Buddhism is practiced by an estimated 488 million, 495 million,or 535 million
7 meditation is fundamentally concerned with two themes: transforming the mind and using it to explore itself and other phenomena
8the dharmacakra, usually written dharmachakra, is one of the Ashtamangala symbolsthat has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to Nirvana, since the early period of Indian Buddhism.