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Touching on style and word-choice issues. Detail about being under a tree. Gautama didn't think anyone was truly enlightened but him, so I changed the last sentence to reflect that.
Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 B.C.) founded Buddhism. His motivation was that he was so disturbed by seeing suffering in the old and sick people. On one occasion he even saw a corpse. Siddhartha meditated for a long time and when he came out of his meditation, he thought that he was an enlightened man
Siddhartha Gautama (563-483 B.C.) founded Buddhism, motivated by the suffering in the old and sick people about him, especialy be an instance when he saw a corpse. Siddhartha meditated under a tree for a long time, and when he emerged from his meditation, he proclaimed only himself to be enlightened.