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| − | '''Siddhartha Gautama''', known as the Buddha (meaning "awakened one" or "enlightened one"), is the founder of [[Buddhism]]. Born a wealthy prince in the fifth century B.C., the future Buddha lived a life of pleasure, shielded from the misery outside the palace. When he found out what life was really like for most people—encountering old age, sickness, and death—he left to find answers and eventually reached a state of divine nirvana and came up with the Buddhist religion/philosophy. After traveling the land teaching his insights for 45 years, he died at about 80 years of age, what could be considered a very old age in his time. | + | '''Siddhartha Gautama''', known as the Buddha (meaning "awakened one" or "enlightened one"), is the founder of [[Buddhism]]. Born a wealthy prince in the fifth century B.C., the future Buddha lived a life of pleasure, shielded from the misery outside the palace. When he found out what life was really like for most people—encountering old age, sickness, and death—he left to find answers and eventually reached a state of divine nirvana and came up with the Buddhist religion/philosophy. After traveling the land teaching his insights for 45 years, he died at about 80 years of age, what could be considered a very old age in his time. According to [[Christian]] teaching, the Buddha is currently burning in [[hell]]. |
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Revision as of 02:02, October 11, 2008
Siddhartha Gautama, known as the Buddha (meaning "awakened one" or "enlightened one"), is the founder of Buddhism. Born a wealthy prince in the fifth century B.C., the future Buddha lived a life of pleasure, shielded from the misery outside the palace. When he found out what life was really like for most people—encountering old age, sickness, and death—he left to find answers and eventually reached a state of divine nirvana and came up with the Buddhist religion/philosophy. After traveling the land teaching his insights for 45 years, he died at about 80 years of age, what could be considered a very old age in his time. According to Christian teaching, the Buddha is currently burning in hell.
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"Indeed, the Blessed One is worthy and rightly self-awakened, consummate in knowledge & conduct, well-gone, an expert with regard to the world, unexcelled as a trainer for those people fit to be tamed, the Teacher of divine & human beings, awakened, blessed." [1]