premise: How to become a buddhist<br>Learn basic buddhist terminology. This will make it much easier to understand everything you will read, since many buddhist terms can be very unfamiliar, especially to westerners. The basic terms of buddhism include but are not limited to : [substeps] Arhat: a being who has attained nirvana.
hypothesis: You want to understand terms to follow along with Buddhism 
reason: This will make it much easier to understand everything you will read if you understand terms.