Buddhism

Buddhism started from a successor of Hinduism, by a man named Siddhartha Gautama during 5th century B.C. in northern India. Siddhartha Gautama was born in approximately 560 B.C. in northern India. His father Suddhodana ruled over a area near the Himalayas (present day Nepal). Suddhodana hid his son to the outside world and isolated him to his palace. Gautama one day saw the dark side of life on a trip he took outside the palace walls. He saw four things that forever changed his life: an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a beggar. Deeply concerned by the suffering he saw, he decided to leave the palace life and begin a quest to find the answer to the problem of pain and human suffering The purpose of Buddhism is to seek the reason, why is there pain and suffering? The teachings of Buddhism aim on what Gautama believed to be the answer to these two questions. These basic rules are found in the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-fold Path. The Four Noble Truths set out to seek, lif...