Who is Siddhartha and what religion did he found?

Answer 1

Siddhartha was a prince who abandoned his wife and child to explore a fascination with life outside of royalty, and was so appalled by poverty that he lived in the lowest form of poverty for a long time by choice, then realized that having everything and having nothing were both too extreme for him. Siddhartha founded the buddhist religion, though much of some forms of Buddhism are distorted far from the original form of buddhism.