nature and life, equally through his wisdom and his kind heart, could truly be labeled historical. But to gain faith in the Buddha, one must first know the history which led Siddartha Gautama to the path of enlightenment.

In the history of India, The oldest known date is the death of the one called Buddha in 483 BC, and even that date is somewhat controversial. Buddha means "one who is intuitive, awakened, or enlightened." (Thomas 1) The famous historical person known as Buddha was also called the Tathagata, which means "the one who has come thus," and Shakyamuni, which means "the sage of the Shakya tribe." (3) He is said to have lived eighty years, and thus was probably born in 563 BC. Siddartha was raised amid the finest luxuries of the time. A prince in a country which lays unrelenting belief in a caste system. But even though in the lap of luxury, Sidda

the importance of mindfulness toward the ethical significance of every

Mara, the tempter, but Siddartha could not be

desires, the desire for existence, and ignorance. According to legend this

The list of bad states of consciousness is similar except that the views,

This process is further described in a parable about an ancient kingdom

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