Buddhism 2

A detailed Summary of Buddhism 2

Before Buddha had started teaching, many people were

ignorant of their feelings and could not understand a

lot of their senses. Before Buddha, people suffered

without understanding why. Buddha taught people how to

release themselves from this daily suffering. They

learned that the pathway to self-righteousness was

bordered with the release from suffering. Buddha's way

of life has benefited the whole world because now

people can choose to understand why we are suffering,

In the depths of India in C.563 b.c., a child

was born. His parents named him Siddartha Guatama, and

it was prophesized that he would one day become a

universal emperor or teacher. Siddartha's father was

a wealthy ruler of an important tribe called "shakya"1

Young Siddartha spent his early life enclosed within

the walls of the palace, where he was sheltered from

anything but luxury, and serenity. He was not

satisfied with only material possessions. Siddartha

felt like he needed something else in his life. So he

pleaded to his father that he could become a follower

of the polytheistic religion that was at that time the

only religion in India. When his father refused,

gods put there so Siddartha could learn what else lies

his home, Siddartha ran across four things he had never

non-violence were the 3 essential parts in the life of

devotion to being on the way to enlightenment. One

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