- Buddhism is a practice based religion primarily focusing on meditation.
- The Buddha was an enlightened being who taught the Dhamma/Dharma.
- The root teaching of Buddhism is that there is Suffering in life that arises from craving, and there is a way to alleviate it.(eight fold path)
- A Buddhist, in the surface, would focus living in present, have no material attachments(use them, develop no affinity/bias towards them) and have compassion towards anything living.
- There are two major sects, Threvada a teaching based on what the Buddha Sakyamuni taught. Mahayana school(with various subschools) has a lot of additional texts attributed to other Buddhas and Bodhisattavas.
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/
http://buddhanet.net/