Part one of term paper
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 ...

Part two of term paper
... 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 tim ...