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| | Buddhism |
 | | Born circa 560 BCE in what is now southern nepal, the Buddha was born Siddartha Gautama, the son of King Suddhodhana and Queen Maya of the Shakya Clan. | | | Despite the efforts of King Suddhodhana to immerse his son in wordly delights and prevent any thought of renunciation from arising in his son's mind, Siddartha's experience of old age, sickness, and death led him to renounce palace life and live as an ascetic yogi. | | | Having failed to seduce, frighten, or cajole Siddartha, Mara, who had confounded worlds, was defeated. |
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http://www.spiralcastle.net/falls/buddhism.html
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| | Papua, Press Agency News |
| | Siddartha told him that he was purifying himself in order to achieve nirvana, and he promised to teach the king after he attained enlightenment. | | | Thus darkness and ignorance were dispelled by the light as Siddartha Gautama became enlightened and was henceforth known as the Buddha. | | | Siddartha reasoned that a life of penance and pain was no better than a life of luxury and pleasure, because if penance on earth is religion, then the heavenly reward for penance must be irreligion. |
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http://www.westpapua.net/news/04/07/300704-39_wna_tersangka_pembalakan_liar_di_papua-5459.html
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| | A Commentary on the First Discourse |
| | His father was very protective of Siddartha because it had been predicted that his son would be either a great king or a great spiritual teacher. | | | He was uninterested in being a king and was often found meditating on the mysteries of life. | | | Buddha was born Siddartha Gautama in the land of the Shakyas in northern India. |
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http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma/dhamachakcom.html
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| | His father, King Suddhodana, was the ruler of the Sakya people and was very protected of his son, Prince Siddartha. | | | Because King Suddhodana was afraid that prince Siddartha might leave the palace to take up the life of a religious wanderer; therefore he sheltered teh prince from all the harsh realities of life such as old age, sickness, death, etc. | | | In the sixth century BCE, Buddha was born as a prince named Siddartha Gautama. |
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http://t3.preservice.org/T0300978/life.html
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| | Siddhartha |
| | He was born to a ruler and later tradition saw him as the son of a king. | | | Siddartha means "every wish fulfilled." He was born in 563 B.C. in the small republic of Sakka, Southern Nepal. | | | Gautama sought out teachers from what he could learn spiritual techniques and master their teachings. |
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http://mcel.pacificu.edu/as/students/cgono/siddhartha.html
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| | SermonSeven - "The Eight-Fold Path of Buddhism" |
| | The Buddha was called Siddartha Gautama, the son of a wealthy minor king, born around 563 B.C. in what is now Nepal, near the Indian border. | | | In our world religion class, one of our members was horrified that Siddartha was so selfish as to leave his wife and son. | | | Siddartha joined a famous group of ascetic sannyasin who mortified their bodies in an attempt to achieve enlightenment. |
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http://www.uufairhaven.org/SermonSeven.htm
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| | History of Buddha |
| | The king, Suddhodana of Kapilvastu, therefore, ordered in the kingdom that the prince, Siddharth Gautama should be surrounded only by the happy and beautiful aspects of life. | | | But Siddharth Gautama's spirit of compassion was so great that he preferred to save the life of the innocent bird to securing the goodwill of his cousin. | | | For the next forty-five years, Siddharth Gautama Buddha devoted his precious life to serve humanity both by example and precept, dominated by no personal motive whatever. |
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http://www.buddhaindia.com/history.htm
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| | 1. The Truth of Sufferings or this is the suffering=Dukkha |
| | For the certainty of being Siddartha Gautama, son of King Shudu Danah and heir to the throne, was a hopelessly inadequate answer to the question posed by the sheer fact of being born and having to die. | | | A privileged upbringing in a prosperous, 21st Century society bears striking parallels to that of Prince Siddartha in North India five hundred years Before Christ. | | | According to legend, Siddartha Gautama, the prince who was to become Buddha, was raised in palaces, where his attention was constantly diverted from the contingency, transience and unreliability of his existence. |
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http://www.cambodianview.com/dukkha.html
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| | Buddhism 101 |
| | The king wanted Siddartha to one day be a powerful ruler, and only by sheltering him from this human suffering could he ensure that his son would ascend to the throne instead of retreating to the forest. | | | Buddhism arose from the teachings of Siddartha Gautama, a prince who lived in northeast India during the sixth century B.C.E. Because his biography was not written down until many years after his death, his complete life story is not known. | | | According to tradition, however, the gods knew when it was time for Siddarthaâs time of enlightenment, and stepped in to make sure he would see the suffering that was to lead him on his spiritual quest. |
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http://www.finetuning.com/articles/p0-1165-buddhism-101.html
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| | Siddhartha Gautama |
| | When Siddhartha Gautama was born, a seer predicted that he would either become a great king or he would save humanity. | | | While we can't be certain which of these stories and legends are true and which of the thousands of sayings attributed to him were actually said by him, we do know that the basic historical outlines of his life are accurate. | | | This founder, Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, has many legends and stories that have accreted around his life. |
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http://www.wsu.edu:8000/~dee/BUDDHISM/SIDD.HTM
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