Country

• Nepal/India

Founder

• Siddhartha Gautama

When

• 600 BCE

Basic Ideas/Beliefs

• The world and everything in it is an illusion/impermanent

The Four Noble Truths

• Life (appears to) suck and is full of suffering
• Suffering is caused by attachment to things you shouldn't be attached to
• How can life not suck? We can end suffering by giving up our attachments to impermanent things.
• The way to give up attachments it to follow the 8-fold path

8-Fold Path

• Know the 4 truths
• Be a good, moral person (don't be a jerk, help people)
• Meditation (ends attachments)