Buddhism is a well-known world religion, a religion that touches people's hearts with great compassion as well as the idea of ​​spreading the seed of wisdom to all sentient beings, for help achieve their state of enlightenment. , so that they can be freed from the samsaric (blown) world. However, to understand the teaching of Buddhism, we needed to know who the founder is, where he comes from, his teaching and his history. Through these, we may be able to grasp the fundamental ideas or basic teachings such as the Four Noble Truths and The Noble Eightfold Path. The Buddha About 2500 years ago, in the Indo-Nepalese region, in the town called Kapilavathu, "Siddhartha" (later to become the Buddha) was born into a royal family, father Sakya Sudhodana and mother Maya. The prince grew up under the shadow of the king and knew how to read and write in all areas to become the future king. At the age of nineteen, the king arranged the marriage of the prince with the most beautiful princess named Yasodhara and subsequently gave birth to a son. (Rahula). The prince remained amused and happy at times until the day he met an old man, a sick man, a dead man and an enlightened monk. Through these encounters, the prince saw “suffering” appear naturally in all sentient beings. These events had awakened the prince's mind and thus deepened his quest for the truth. At the age of twenty-nine, to seek true happiness and liberate all sentient beings, the prince left his family and became a monk. During his search for truth, the prince met two masters who taught him the practice of deep meditation, after practicing for some time with both masters. The prince realized that this was not what he was looking for. Therefore, it w...... middle of paper ......w York: Oxford University Press, 1998.Harvey, Peter. An introduction to Buddhism: teachings, history and practices. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Haught, John F. What is Religion? : an introduction. New York: Paulist Press, 1990. Hopfe, Lewis M. World Religions. New York; Toronto: Macmillan; Collier Macmillan Canada, 1991. Snellgrove, David L. Indo-Tibetan Buddhism: Indian Buddhists and their Tibetan successors. Boston; [New York]: Shambhala; Distributed in the United States by Random House, 1987.Soanes, Catherine. Pocket Oxford English Dictionary. Tenth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. Solomon, Robert C. and Kathleen Marie. Higgins. A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Walpola Rahula. What the Buddha taught. London: G. Fraser, 1978.