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Gautama was moved by the suffering of life and death, and its endless repetition due to rebirth. He thus set out on a quest to find liberation from suffering. After leaving his family behind, he first studied under two teachers of [[Hinduism|Hindu]] philosophy and learned the art of [[meditation]]. Finding these teachings to be insufficient to attain his goal, he joined a group of [[Jainism|Jain]] monks who practiced severe asceticism, which included a strict fasting regime and various forms of breath control. | Gautama was moved by the suffering of life and death, and its endless repetition due to rebirth. He thus set out on a quest to find liberation from suffering. After leaving his family behind, he first studied under two teachers of [[Hinduism|Hindu]] philosophy and learned the art of [[meditation]]. Finding these teachings to be insufficient to attain his goal, he joined a group of [[Jainism|Jain]] monks who practiced severe asceticism, which included a strict fasting regime and various forms of breath control. | ||
When he was unable to achieve enlightenment through either method, he went off on his own and meditated by himself. He sat in meditative absorption under a Bodhi tree near the town of Bodh Gaya and attained enlightenment. On awakening, the Buddha gained insight into the workings of karma and his former lives, as well as achieving the ending of the mental defilements, the ending of suffering, and the end of rebirth in saṃsāra. This event also brought certainty about the Middle Way as the right path of spiritual practice to end suffering. As a fully enlightened Buddha, he attracted followers and founded a monastic order. | When he was unable to achieve [[enlightenment]] through either method, he went off on his own and meditated by himself. He sat in meditative absorption under a Bodhi tree near the town of Bodh Gaya and attained enlightenment. On awakening, the Buddha gained insight into the workings of karma and his former lives, as well as achieving the ending of the mental defilements, the ending of suffering, and the end of rebirth in saṃsāra. This event also brought certainty about the Middle Way as the right path of spiritual practice to end suffering. As a fully enlightened Buddha, he attracted followers and founded a monastic order. | ||
The Buddha's teachings were propagated by his followers, which in the last centuries of the 1st millennium BCE became various Buddhist schools of thought, each with its own basket of texts containing different interpretations and authentic teachings of the Buddha; these over time evolved into many traditions of which the more well known and widespread in the modern era are Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. | The Buddha's teachings were propagated by his followers, which in the last centuries of the 1st millennium BCE became various Buddhist schools of thought, each with its own basket of texts containing different interpretations and authentic teachings of the Buddha; these over time evolved into many traditions of which the more well known and widespread in the modern era are Theravada, Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism. | ||