RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
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prince
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a white elephant
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a teacher
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a farmer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Siddhartha Gautama (better known as the Buddha, l. c. 563-c. 483 BCE) was, according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India in the 6th-5th centuries BCE.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gautama Buddha was born as Siddhartha in a royal family in Kosala Kingdom. He was married to a princess named Yashodhara when he reached the age of sixteen.
Detailed explanation-3: -After defeating the forces of the demon Mara, Siddhartha reached enlightenment (1982.233) and became a Buddha (“enlightened one”) at the age of thirty-five. The Buddha continued to sit after his enlightenment, meditating beneath the tree and then standing beside it for a number of weeks.