RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
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Question
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What happened when Siddhartha was 29?
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He had a son and began to travel outside of his palaces.
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He traveled to many different countries to experience different cultures.
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He became very sick and was forced to become an ascetic.
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He got married to a young noblewoman and built her a new palace.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Rāhula died before the Buddha and his teacher Śariputra did. According to Pāli and Chinese sources, this happened as he was travelling psychically through the second Buddhist heaven (Sanskrit: Trāyastriṃśa).
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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