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Buddha was a man by the name of Siddhartha Gautama; he was born in India in the worrier calss in about 565 BCE to a prince of the Sakya tribe of Nepal. Although his date is not clearly ascertainable, he is the first man in Indian history whose date can be assigned to a limited period with any degree of certainty. Siddhartha was twenty-nine years old when he left the comforts of his home to seek the meaning of the suffering he saw around him. He attained enlightenment after searching for the truth for six years when he abandoned the way of self-mortification and instead sat in mindful meditation beneath a Bodhi tree. It was then that he founded the Buddhism religion and philosophy and became the Buddha, the enlightened one. He wandered the plains of northeastern India for 45 years more, teaching the path or Dharma he had realized in that moment
One of the great world religions, Buddhism takes as its goal the escape from suffering and the cycle of rebirth and the attainment of......

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