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a young man with many questions led to many followers with a new religion

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the young man's name was siddhartha gautama and was a prince who started the foundation of the new religion

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siddhartha searched tons of places in india to find his answers but was never statified by the answers he got, but never gave up

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siddhartha started to fast and meditate and focused the mind on spiritual ideas

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siddhartha realised he found all of his answer meditating under a tree that is noe called the tree of wisdom

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siddhartha was called the buddha

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buddha spent the rest of his life traveling across india and sharing his teachings

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he realized that human suffering comes from 3 things

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he shared his first ideas with his companions

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they called his first talk the first sermon

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the more buddha traveld the more followers he got

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buddha had 4 guiding principles that were called the 4 noble truthes

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buddha made something called the eightfold path

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the eightfold path was a way between human desires and denying oneself any pleasure

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some of buddhas teachings challenged hindu ideas

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The buddha is opposed to the caste system

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when buddha first traveled, those were his first followers and believers in buddhism

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buddha was raised hindu and many of his teachings were refected on the hindu ideas

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buddha believed that  people should overcome their desire for material goods

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buddha was opposed to the caste system

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buddha challenged the authority of the hindu priests, the brahmins

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buddha didnt reject the hindu teaching of reincarnation

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buddha didnt believe in the vedas like the hindus did

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buddha did not believe in all of the hindus rituals

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unlike hinduism, buddhaism made hem feel that they had the power to change their lives

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he told people we didnt have to follow the vedas

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buddha gained many followers from hunduism's higher classes

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buddha didnt believe the hindus's rituals were necessary for enlightenment

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low classes in the caste system liked hearing that it wouldnt be a problem in the enlightenment

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buddha influenced most of the hindus throughout india