Examples of Siddhartha Gautama in the following topics:
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- After attaining Enlightenment, Siddhartha Gautama became known
as the Buddha, and taught a Middle Way that became a major world religion, known as Buddhism.
- Buddhism
arose between 500-300 BCE, when Siddhartha Gautama, a young man from an
aristocratic family, left behind his worldly comforts to
seek spiritual enlightenment.
- Early
texts suggest Siddhartha Gautama was born into the Shakya Clan, a community on
the eastern edge of the Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE.
- Gautama is thought
to have been born in modern-day Nepal, and raised in the Shakya capital of
Kapilvastu, which may have been in Nepal or India.
- Siddhartha,
thereafter known as Buddha, or "awakened one," was recognized by his followers,
called Buddhists, as an enlightened teacher.