Buddha
There have only been a handful of people in our society who have made such an incredible impact and contribution to our world, purely on the strength of their philosophy and enlightened state of mind. Siddartha Gautama was one of these chosen individuals. A person whose vast understanding of humannature 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
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