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The birthplace of the Gautama Buddha, Lumbini, is the Mecca of every Buddhist, being one of the four holy places of Buddhism. It is said in the Parinibbana Sutta that Buddha himself identified four places of future pilgrimage: the sites of his birth, enlightenment, first discourse, and death. All of these events happened outside in nature under trees. While there is not any particular significance in this, other than it perhaps explains why Buddhist have always respected the environment and natural law.
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Gautama Buddha was an Indian spiritual leader who lived between approximately 563 BC and 483 BC. Born Siddhartha Gautama (Sanskrit, Siddhattha Gotama Pali -- the "wish-fulfiller"), he later became the Buddha (lit. Enlightened One). He is ... commonly known as Shakyamuni or Sakyamuni (lit. "The sage of the Shakya clan") and as the Tathagata (lit. thus-gone one), emphasizing the nature of a Buddha to go about in the world without adding or subtracting anything from his experience.) Gautama was a contemporary of Mahavira.
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In the 6th century B.C. when priest craft traded on religion, Gautama Buddha was born to save the people and disseminate the message of equality, unity and cosmic love all over the globe. Buddha’s birth took place around 565 B.C. in Lumbini near the city of Kapilavastu in the ancient Northern India (today’s Nepal). His childhood name was Siddhartha Gautama. Buddha’s mother Maya died seven days after his birth. During the birth celebrations of Buddha a seer predicted that Buddha would either become a universal monarch or would assume the robe of a monk and become a Buddha for the salvation of mankind.
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In the course of his wanderings, Gautama Buddha returned to Kapilavastu. In all these years of his absence Yashodhara his wife grieved and lived as plainly as a window with just their son Rahula as solace. The King lamented, and was none too pleased to see his son and heir return with a begging bowl in his hand. But they too were enlightened by the Buddha. King Suddhodana became a lay disciple, and Yashodhara followed the same rules. She sent Rahula to ask his inheritance from the father, as he was now rightfully heir to the throne.
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Gautama Buddha was early married to his cousin Yashoda, daughter of the raja of Koli. At the age of 29, the problem of suffering, disease and death was impressively set before Buddha. Filled with the thought of the insecurity of all happiness and grief at the sufferings of others, Buddha felt a deep unrest and dissatisfaction with life. After ten years, his son Rahula was born, but Buddha only felt it as one more tie on the way to seek a solution for the problems of the world.
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Gautama Buddha was born in 563 b.c. at Kapilavastu, on the border of Nepal. The Buddha, then known as Siddhartha, was the son of the King of the Sakyas, Suddhodana and Queen Maya. Siddhartha lived in the protected splendor of the palace and at age sixteen was married to Princess Yasodhara (who later became his disciple and was known as the Lady of the Lotus). They had a son named Rahula.
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