What are the distinctive factors in the Buddha’s path to religious liberation?

Discourse on the Noble Quest

Who was the Buddha? Why did he choose to live a religious life?

What are the distinctive factors in the Buddha’s path to religious liberation?

The Discourse on the Noble Quest provides some of the answers to these questions as it purports to contain the Buddha’s own account of significant events in his quest for religious meaning.

This discourse focuses on the Buddha’s “going forth” from his opulent domestic life to a life of homelessness in search of release from suffering,the supreme goal of the religious life.