Prince Siddhartha Gautama - Buddha :: Chinese China History

BuddhaThis report bequeath be ab pop out 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 also 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 division 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 feel and full of grace and virtue. Siddhartha got his name from single 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 husband about her dream, he called Brahmins, or learned me n to interpret it. They predicted that the child one-day would be the superior king in the world or the greatest ascetic 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 new 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 mobilise throughout the city. While riding he saw three things he had never seen before. One was an elder man, another was a man suffering from illness, and in conclusion 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 come out to all kinds of people. Everything is transient nothing in permanen t in this world....Knowing that, I can find delight in nothing...How can a man, who knows that death is sooner inevitable, still 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.