THERAVADA BUDDHISM  A polytheisc religion which belief in many gods and Goddeses  Originated from around 400 BC  360 million followers -it is the fourt largest religion in the world  A religion of Eastern and Asia that is based of the teaching of Gautama Buddha. 2 Main Division -Theravada Buddhism -Mahayana Buddhism - Believe that the Buddha was an ordinary human -Believe that the Buddha is God -150 million followers -China 244 -Thailand -Japan -Myanmar -Mongolia -Sri Lanka Theravada- “School of elder Monks” Or School of the ancients HISTORICAL BACKGROUND  It origin points to one man “Siddhartha Gautama”  Has never experience any radical schism in the evoluon  The disciple of Gautama spread his word and preached  Who’s life has because a constant source in inspiraon LIFE OF BUDDHA  Born in 563 B.C.E to 480 B.C.E  His father was suddhodana, an cristocrac Hindu chieſtain -his mather was mahamaya, a koliyan princess  The name “Siddhartha” means “he who achieve his aim”  Suddhodana kept his child shielded from the harsh realies of human suffering outside the luxurious  In that moment of pure Enlightment Siddharthan Gautama because a Buddha “he who’s is a wake”