INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The earliest Buddhist sources state that the Buddha was born to an aristocratic Kshatriya (Pali: khattiya) family called Gotama (Sanskrit: Gautama), who were part of the Shakyas, a tribe of rice-farmers living near the modern border of India and Nepal.

Detailed explanation-2: -Sakya is both a religious and political project-an eminent monastic community affiliated with, and controlled by, the royalty of the noble Khön clan. Sakya means “gray earth, ‘’ for the appearance of the land around the main monastery, Sakya, which was founded by Khön Konchog Gyalpo in 1073.

Detailed explanation-3: -Siddhartha was the son born to Queen Maya, who later became Buddha. Prajapati Gotami had a daughter Sundari Nanda and a son Nanda with Suddhodana. According to Theravada texts Sundari Nanda was the eldest among his three children. While Siddhartha was the second born and Nanda was the youngest of the family.

Detailed explanation-4: -Who was Shakyamuni Buddha? Shakyamuni Buddha is the founder of the Buddhist religion. He lived and taught in India in the sixth century B.C.E., a time of burgeoning religious and philosophical thought from Greece to China.