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=Buddhism= == //

" One thing I teach: suffering and the end of suffering. It is just ill and the ceasing of ill that I proclaim." -- //The Buddha

//As stated the quote above is from Buddha, who is the leader of this religion and is seen in the picture above. His original name was Siddhartha Gautama. He was born into a wealthy family and had everything you could ever want from the world's perspective. Except he decided this wasn't what he wanted. He wanted something more, so he left the palace. Buddha was determined to spend his life finding a way to end life's suffering and find religious truth.

He wandered through the forests of India for six years searching to find enlightenment, or wisdom. Siddhartha tried many things. He spoke to other religious leaders and fasted. Finally he decided to sit in meditation under a fig tree. For 49 days he sat there, and finally achieved what he called understanding of the cause of suffering in the world. From then on he was known as Buddha meaning the "enlightened one."//

After he became Buddha he preached to five companions in his first sermon. When doing this he taught what is known as The Four Noble Truths. You could say they were a very big part of the religion Buddha had started.