Siddhartha Gautama's Religion
Buddhism rivaled against Hinduism's doctrine around the sixth century B.C.E. as the fastest growing religion in the Indian subcontinent. Siddhartha Gautama was the creator of this new religion, and he grew up in the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains. In his village, children were trained in the martial arts practice for full maturity; once he gained adulthood he left and got married with children of his own. What leads him to the practice of his religion Buddhism was when he contracted a disease at the age of twenty-nine, looking for a cure to regain his health. He started traveling to find answers about his disease, and when he meditated under a tree he apparently received the meaning of life and from then on continued to preach its works.