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Here is a brief overview of Gautam Buddha's life:
Gautam Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, was the founder of Buddhism, one of the major religions of the world. He was born in 563 BCE in Lumbini, which is now part of Nepal, to a wealthy family. As a young prince, he lived a sheltered and privileged life, but at age 29 he renounced his comfortable lifestyle to seek enlightenment.
After several years of ascetic practice and meditation, Siddhartha achieved enlightenment while sitting under a bodhi tree. He then became known as Buddha, which means "the enlightened one." For the rest of his life, Buddha traveled throughout northeastern India, teaching his philosophy of the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path to end suffering.
Buddha attracted many followers and established a community of monks and nuns. He died at the age of 80 in Kushinagar, India. Buddhism, based on Buddha's teachings, went on to become one of the dominant religions in Asia and is now practiced worldwide.
Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama and Lord Buddha, is regarded as the founder of Buddhism; his followers are referred to as Buddhists. Gautama Buddha is also commonly referred to as Buddha, which means an enlightened one who has attained freedom from the state of suffering and ignorance, having attained the state of nirvana.
Gautama Buddha was born in a kingdom just below the foothills of the Himalayas on the edge of the eastern Indian subcontinent. Lord Buddha was born into the prestigious family of the Shakya Clan. His father was the head of the Shakya clan, and his mother was a Koliyan Princess.
In search of answers to the problems of suffering, Buddha bid a silent farewell to his wife without waking her, and left for the forest wearing a simple robe of an ascetic. He worked with two teachers: Alara Kalama and Udraka Ramaputra. From Alara Kalama, he learned how to train his mind to enter the sphere of nothingness. Udraka Ramaputra taught him how to enter the mind’s concentration zone, which is neither consciousness nor unconsciousness. Eventually, Buddha left both his teachers in search of liberation.
For six years, Buddha, along with five other companions, practised asceticism by eating single grains of rice and conflicting mind against body. His five companions left him after Buddha decided to abandon asceticism.
In a village, Buddha was offered a disk of milk and several vessels of honey by a woman named Sujata. After this, he went to bathe himself in the Nairanjana river, and then sat underneath the bodhi tree, where he meditated. After seven days, he was liberated from the chains of human suffering and became “Buddha”, the enlightened one.
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