When did Buddhism begin to be called a religion???

That's really a good question. Because few people have seriously thought about it, and then confused blind obedience. The argument that Buddhism is a religion is also put forward by these confusing and blind followers.

For the Chinese, Confucianism (Confucianism), which appeared earlier, could be considered a religion before the Spring and Autumn because it initially recognized the existence of the supreme god and worship, as well as good and evil. After the Han Dynasty, it could not be called a religion, because it began to move towards atheism and proximity to Buddhism (there began to be literati who believed that there was no soul and no heaven and hell after death). However, such a statement is from the perspective of Western religious theory, so it can only be used as a reference.

The ideological cultivation of the Chinese since the Opium War can be regarded as the initial thinking of modern people. Let's take a look at the attitude towards this aspect during that period: Baoguo so Baojiao (Confucianism), Baojiao so Baojiao" (Zhang Zhidong, Kang Youwei), "Preserve the quintessence of the country, the quintessence of the country can save us first" (Lu Xun), "Only socialism can save China" (***).

What matters about any thought is not what it actually is, but what it can do. In short, when it works for me, say it as anything! This is the context of the direction of modern thought.

Although the landlord cannot be given a specific answer, such a context should be able to solve the landlord's doubts about this problem.

The word religion should have appeared later than Buddhism. So that's a hard question to answer.

Buddhism originated in the 6th-5th centuries BC and was founded by Siddhartha. Gotama. Shakyamuni is the honorific title of the believers, according to legend, he is now the crown prince of the Kapila Kingdom in Nepal, when he was 29 years old, he deeply felt the irrationality of the Indian Brahmanical caste system, and the lower class suffered from birth, old age, sickness, and death, so he ran away from home, and at the age of 35, he became enlightened, founded Buddhism, and won the support of the poor.

At that time, the Indian society was a society in which the upper castes brutally oppressed and exploited the lower castes, and the social contradictions were very complex and acute, which provided conditions for the emergence and development of Buddhism. Shakyamuni proposed the creation theory of caste in opposition to Brahmanism"All beings are equal"。

1. Buddhism originated in the 5th century BC.

2. Buddhism is one of the three major religions in the world, which was born in ancient India in the 5th century B.C., and its founder was Siddhartha Gautama (565 B.C. and 486 B.C.). At the age of 20, he left home and became enlightened, and since then he has been honored as "Buddha", which means enlightened person, referred to as "Buddha", and his religion is called "Dongthis Buddhism". In the hundreds of years after the Buddha manifested Nirvana, Buddhism spread throughout the Indian subcontinent and was called Primitive Buddhism, a period known as the Primitive Buddhism period.