Prince Siddhartha Gautama - Buddha :: Chinese China History

BuddhaThis report will be about the life of Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, and his influences on the people around him. It will explain how the religion of Buddhism came about and how the Buddha created it. It will withal include not only what influenced Buddha to start preaching, but what influenced the people to listen. Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who would later be known as Buddha, was born in Lumbini, Nepal around the year 563 BC. He was the son of two important great people. Siddharthas fathers name was Shuddhodana, the King of the Sakyas. His mother, Queen Maya, was a lady of perfect form and bee-black tresses, fearless in heart and skillful of grace and virtue. Siddhartha got his name from one of his mothers dreams. Her dream was that an elephant with 6 tusks, carrying a lotus flower in its trunk, touched the right side of Queen Mayas body. That was when Siddhartha was miraculously conceived. When she told her keep up about her dream, he c every last(predicate)ed Brahmins, or l earned men to interpret it. They predicted that the child one-day would be the greatest king in the world or the greatest austere in the world. So thats why they called him Siddhartha, meaning he whose aim is accomplished. When Siddhartha was about 20 years old he married Yasodhara, who was the daughter of one of the Kings ministers. Siddhartha and his peeled wife had a child a year after they got married. They called their son Rahula, which means impediment.Nine years later Siddhartha asked his charioteer to take him for a ride passim the metropolis. While riding he saw three things he had never seen before. One was an elder man, another was a man suffering from illness, and finally he saw a dead body surrounded by mourners. Since he had never seen anything like that before he asked his charioteer, Channa, what was wrong. He responded and told the Prince that these things were natural and unavoidable, that happen to all kinds of people. Everything is transient nothing in permane nt in this world....Knowing that, I can find delight in nothing...How can a man, who knows that death is quite inevitable, inactive feel greed in his heart, enjoy the world of senses and not weep in this great danger? Once again Siddhartha asked Channa to take him out into the city again and this time he was to see the last of four images that would change his life forever.