I practice buddhism/ does anyone else and do you understand it, Buddhism claims that a person called "the buddha" or the enlightened one, rediscovered a very ancient and long standing, in fact an ageless, wisdom, and that he did so in Bihar in India, around about 6oo or 400 BC the exact date is unknown his re formulation of the perennial wisdom was designed to counteract three evils, 1/ violence to avoid it in all it's forms 2/ the self or the fact that one holds on to oneself as an individual personality, 3/ death was an error which could be overcome by those who entered the doors of the deathless the gates of the undying, apart from providing antidotes to these three ills, buddha formulated no definite doctrines or creeds buddhism is also known as the path of enlightenment.