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Siddhartha Gautama was a historical religious teacher associated with the Shakya community. Buddhist tradition connects his birth with Lumbini, enlightenment with Bodh Gaya, first sermon with Sarnath and Mahaparinirvana with Kushinagar. His path rejected both sensual indulgence and extreme self-mortification in favour of the Middle Way.
The Four Noble Truths form a central framework of Buddhist teaching: there is dukkha, it has an origin, its cessation is possible, and there is a path leading to that cessation. That path is the Noble Eightfold Path of right view, intention, speech, action, livelihood, effort, mindfulness and concentration.
Buddhism spread from northern India to Sri Lanka, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and Tibet. Royal patronage, trade routes, monasteries, travelling monks, translation movements and local adaptation all played major roles in this expansion.
