Is Buddhism a Religion?

"Buddhism is more of a philosophical way of life it provides me with a set of tools that determine how I live," he says. "I don't ascribe to a specific set of rituals or practices or anything that would even look like a religion in the way that I teach and practice Buddhism" 'You can take these as tools and study the nature of the mind and how and why we think this concept of not knowing in Buddhism is very prevalent'