Buddha Intro

Siddhartha Gautama was once a wealthy man who lived inside of a castle because an oracle told his father that Siddhartha would either be a religious man or a ruler.  His father wanted him to be a ruler so Siddhartha was kept indoors to tempt him away from religious life by way of women and food.  However, after going outside of his palace he came to four sights that made him think over life and existence.  Eventually he left the castle to become a wandering holy man.
The 3 Jewels of Buddhism are the Buddha who is a teacher, the Dharma which provides moral laws, and the Sangha which is a Buddhist community.  The threefold path is a similar way to Nirvana through ethics, meditation, and wisdom.  Buddha's teachings are all based around four truths that he discovered about suffering: 1. all existence is suffering, 2. Desire is the cause of suffering, 3. suffering is ended when desire is ended, and there is a path that leads from suffering. The Buddha's extensive approach to Dharma is known as the eightfold path which is as follows: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, right concentration, and right knowledge and liberation.