After becoming the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama challenged the Hindu belief that: A. people should pay priests to perform rituals. B. people's souls are influenced by their good and bad karma. C. people are reborn in new bodies after they die. D. people should meditate to clear their minds.
The founder of Buddhism, Siddhartha Gautama, was born circa 563 BCE into a wealthy family. Gautama rejected his life of riches and embraced a lifestyle of asceticism, or extreme self-discipline.
