What is the origin or buddhism?

What is the origin or buddhism?

Some fat man who couldn't control his own diet started teaching discipline.

Buddha lived in luxury ignorant of the sorrow in the world until he traveled outside the palace and saw suffering. He left his life of luxury to help people alleviate suffering by quenching desire.
Buddha was from India, but Buddhism was later pushed out of India by the coming of Islam. It moved east into China, Japan, the Koreas, and southeast Asia.

The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Sakya tribe of Nepal, in approximately 566 BC. When he was twenty nine years old, he left the comforts of his home to seek the meaning of the suffering he saw around him. After six years of arduous yogic training, he abandoned the way of self-mortification and instead sat in mindful meditation beneath a bod hi tree.

On the full moon of May, with the rising of the morning star, Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, the enlightened on
HE WAS NOT FAT that is a western stereotype made by someone who has no idea what Buddhism is

Buddhism sprang from Hinduism. The Buddha felt Hinduism had too many Gods, rules and muckyTyuck...he simplified things...I feel he did a good job doing that too!

The or gin of Buddhism
http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/BUDDHISM/ORIGINS.HTM

You have asked a series of Buddhist questions within the past hour Sometimes simple answers dictated by the space restrictions here can lead to further questions making it difficult for a beginner to make progress
The enclosed link was originally set up for schools and colleges but is an excellent site for questioners such as yourself who have many questions and can find it difficult on forums such as this to tell fact from fiction

http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/index.htm

and the main site

http://www.buddhanet.net/index.html

Hope this helps you