Do people react and change their way of life because of books, movies, tv, music, fashion, pop-culture, etc. Or is are they simply used as an expression of what is happening in life?

yeah it can change also and it cannot also

because some of them like drug addicts and prisoner read books etc to change

but some people like us watch tv etc for entertainment

it maybe, we dont know. however lucky the lipercon seams guilty

one central belief of buddhism is often referred to as reincarnation -- the concept that people are reborn after dying. buddhism is a philosophy of life expounded by gautama buddha ("buddha" means "enlightened one"), who lived and taught in northern india in the 6th century b.c.