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Siddhartha left his home to find answers

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Siddhartha spent 6 years wandering though India

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As Siddhartha went on he became more and more determined

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Siddhartha found a place near the town of Gaya where he meditated

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After seven weeks of meditation he found the three reasons of why people were so sad

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Siddhartha spent seven more weeks meditating under the tree of wisdom and shared his new ideas with his former companions

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he was now called Buddha after the enlightenment he found under the tree

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The Buddha spent the rest of his life traveling around northern india spreading his ideas

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Buddha gained many followers as he traveled

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The Buddha was raised Hindu so many of his teachings reflect Hinduism

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There were four guiding principles in the teaching of Buddhism that became know as the Four Noble Truths

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Reaching nirvana ment that you were at peace and had no need to be reincarnated

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Buddhism taught you that suffering and unhappiness are a part of human life and you can't escape sorrow

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suffering comes from your desires for pleasure and material and people make their own misery because they want things they can' have

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Reaching nirvana would free your soul from suffering and that happens after you overcome your desires and ignorance

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People can reach nirvana by following the eightfold path

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people should overcome your desire for material goods

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never starve your body because you are just causing yourself unnecessary pain

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some of buddha's teachings challenged Hindu teachings

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rejected the idea of animal sacrifice

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The Buddha did not believe in the caste system unlike Hindus

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Buddhism made people of a lower class feel like they could change their lives unlike Hinduism

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Both Hinduism and Buddhism believed in reaching nirvana

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Hindus and Buddhists believed in reaching nirvana just in different ways

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Buddhists and Hindus believed in reincarnation

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Some of Buddha's teachings challenged Hindu's

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Buddha told people that they did not have to follow the Vedas texts

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Buddha did not believe that the Hindu priests rituals were necessary for the enlightenment

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The Buddha was raised a Hindu

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Unlike Hinduism Buddha thought that the way to reach nirvana was to follow the eightfold path