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    Born in Nepal in The 6th Century B.C., Buddha Was A Spiritual Leader and Teacher Whose Life Serves As The Foundation of The Buddhist Religion

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    Buddha was born in Nepal in the 6th century BC as Siddhartha Gautama. He was sheltered as a prince but eventually encountered human suffering, which led him to leave his life and study religion and meditation. After six years as an ascetic, Siddhartha achieved enlightenment under a bodhi tree and realized that balance, not extremes, was the key. He then taught the principles of Buddhism until his death, founding a major world religion.

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    Born in Nepal in The 6th Century B.C., Buddha Was A Spiritual Leader and Teacher Whose Life Serves As The Foundation of The Buddhist Religion

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    Buddha was born in Nepal in the 6th century BC as Siddhartha Gautama. He was sheltered as a prince but eventually encountered human suffering, which led him to leave his life and study religion and meditation. After six years as an ascetic, Siddhartha achieved enlightenment under a bodhi tree and realized that balance, not extremes, was the key. He then taught the principles of Buddhism until his death, founding a major world religion.

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    Buddha was born in Nepal in the 6th century BC as Siddhartha Gautama. He was sheltered as a prince but eventually encountered human suffering, which led him to leave his life and study religion and meditation. After six years as an ascetic, Siddhartha achieved enlightenment under a bodhi tree and realized that balance, not extremes, was the key. He then taught the principles of Buddhism until his death, founding a major world religion.

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    Synopsis
    Siddhartha Gautama, who would one day become
    known as Buddha ("enlightened one" or "the
    awakened"), lived in Nepal during the 6th to 4th
    century B.C. While scholars agree that he did in
    fact live, the events of his life are still debated.
    According to the most widely known story of his
    life, after experimenting with different teachings
    for years, and finding none of them acceptable,
    Gautama spent a fateful night in deep meditation.
    During his meditation, all of the answers he had
    been seeking became clear, and achieved full

    awareness, thereby becoming Buddha.


    Early Years
    The Buddha, or "enlightened one," was born
    Siddhartha (which means "he who achieves his
    aim") Gautama to a large clan called the Shakyas
    in Lumbini, (today, modern Nepal) in the 6th
    century B.C. His father was king who ruled the
    tribe, known to be economically poor and on the
    outskirts geographically. His mother died seven
    days after giving birth to him, but a holy man
    prophesized great things for the young Siddhartha:
    He would either be a great king or military leader
    or he would be a great spiritual leader. To keep his
    son from witnessing the miseries and suffering of
    the world, Siddhartha's father raised him in
    opulence in a palace built just for the boy and
    sheltered him from knowledge of religion and
    human hardship. According to custom, he married
    at the age of 16, but his life of total seclusion
    continued for another 13 years.
    Beyond the Palace Walls
    The prince reached his late 20s with little
    experience of the world outside the walls of his
    opulent palaces, but one day he ventured out
    beyond the palace walls and was quickly
    confronted with the realities of human frailty: He
    saw a very old man, and Siddhartha's charioteer
    explained that all people grow old. Questions about
    all he had not experienced led him to take more
    journeys of exploration, and on these subsequent

    trips he encountered a diseased man, a decaying


    corpse and an ascetic. The charioteer explained
    that the ascetic had renounced the world to seek
    release from the human fear of death and
    suffering. Siddhartha was overcome by these
    sights, and the next day, at age 29, he left his
    kingdom, wife and son to lead an ascetic life, and
    determine a way to relieve the universal suffering
    that he now understood to be one of the defining
    traits of humanity.
    The Ascetic Life and Enlightenment
    For the next six years, Siddhartha lived an ascetic
    life and partook in its practices, studying and
    meditating using the words of various religious
    teachers as his guide. He practiced his new way of
    life with a group of five ascetics, and his dedication
    to his quest was so stunning that the five ascetics
    became Siddhartha's followers. When answers to
    his questions did not appear, however, he
    redoubled his efforts, enduring pain, fasting nearly
    to starvation, and refusing water.
    Whatever he tried, Siddhartha could not reach the
    level of satisfaction he sought, until one day when
    a young girl offered him a bowl of rice. As he
    accepted it, he suddenly realized that corporeal
    austerity was not the means to achieve inner
    liberation, and that living under harsh physical
    constraints was not helping him achieve spiritual
    release. So he had his rice, drank water and bathed
    in the river. The five ascetics decided that

    Siddhartha had given up the ascetic life and would


    now follow the ways of the flesh, and they
    promptly left him. From then on, however,
    Siddhartha encouraged people to follow a path of
    balance instead of one characterized by
    extremism. He called this path the Middle Way.

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