Many centuries ago, around 563 B.C., a man named Siddhartha Gautama was born. He was part of a tribal group called the Shakyas. The Shakyas lived in a place called Kshatriya, which is now Lumbini, Nepal. Siddhartha was the son of the chief of this tribe.

Later in his life, at the age of 29, Siddhartha left his tribe in search for a better life. After he left, the people no longer called him Siddhartha, they called him Buddha, meaning "Enlightened One." He disappeared for a period of time and then reappeared with followers of his great teachings. Buddha had taught many things to people around him while he was away from his tribe.

Before he had followers for his teachings of great preachings that he had made, he had visions of many things. Those visions brought him to create the art of Buddhism. After leaving his tribe, he wandered off, he saw the five things that brought him to create Buddhism along the way. The visions that he saw were: an old man, a sick man, a corpse, a beggar, and a holy monk.

Seeing an old man, sick man, a corpse, and a beggar convinced Buddha that life involves aging, sickness, poorness, and death. The holy monk convinced him that he should leave his wandering and seek for religious enlightenment by practicing a method which we call now, Buddhism.

The first place Buddha taught was called Deer Park. This is where he expounded the Four Noble Truths, a method, that is the foundation of belief.

The Four Noble Truths was a method which said that all human life is suffering, a suffering caused by human desire and particularly the desire for impermanent things to become permanent. He said that human suffering can be ended by ending human desire and human desire can be ended by following the Eight Noble Paths, another teaching. That is why people buddhists follow these eight instructions: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right live hood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.

Buddha, with his followers, traveled through the valley of the Ganges River. While traveling along the river he taught people his doctrines, gathered more followers, and established monastic communities that admitted anyone regardless of caste.

Later he returned to his tribe to convert his family into being Buddhist. He died 45 years after missionary activities, in Kusinagara, Nepal at the age of 80. The cause of his death was contaminated pork. Among the years he was living, he taught many methods which helped Buddhists.