He experimented like a good scientist.
Being fearfully wealthy did not give him the answers, being painfully aesthetic (not eating drinking or caring for personal comfort) wasn't the answer either. What did work was the middle road of enough to eat and enough comfort to survive. Then he thought and contemplated until he concluded that understanding does not come from purposeful thinking. When you become aware you know.
He meditated under the Bodhi tree for a full night and resisted 3 wicked goddesses he saw the truths of the world.... he followed his own middle way and he became enlightened.........................
The Eightfold Path
Siddhartha Gautama is the founder of Buddhism. Interestingly enough, you could say it was because he was determined to stay against a tree and meditate - and not arising until he reached Enlightenment. It took about 49 days, but after that, he claims to have reached Enlightenment.
By attaining enlightenment, which the overcoming of desires, attachments and aversions.
In the history of Buddhism, there were 28 Buddhas who attained Enlightenment in different times. Gouthama Buddha, enlightened in the 6th century BC, was the final Buddha until the present.
Buddhism
The Goal of Buddhism is to reach "enlightenment".
Siddhartha Gautama who was widely known as "the Buddha", which means "the awakened one," was the founder of what has come to be known as Buddhism. His dates are uncertain, but he lived for 80 years and died around 400 B.C.E. .
The founder of Buddhism was the Buddha.
Siddhartha Guatama
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The founder of Buddhism is Siddharth Goutama Buddha.
Gautam Buddha was the founder of Buddhism.