The philosophy of Buddhism inevitably fell under the direct or indirect influence of other schools of thought prevalent in the India of the Buddha's day. Nothing can occur without relation to its historical environment, but great teachers such as the Buddha can rise above the environment, and create one of their own.
The Buddha thoroughly examined all the philosophical and religious doctrines of his time. Adopting what he found worthwhile and discarding what he found useless, he established the Buddhist philosophy, which is distinguished from all others by its teaching of dependent origination, a teaching the Buddha himself described as an unprecedented but absolute truth, universally applicable.
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