anyone know much about the buddha?

Question

its for my r.e project? any info will do

Answer 1

Siddhartha Gautama was a prince from northern india, or what is now nepal. his father, the king, did not want him to see any of the suffereing in the world, and insulated him in the palace from all the problems of the world. one day he saw an old crippled man while walking around and thus saw that life had suffereing. this impelled him on a search for the end of suffering.

rather than write his whole story, why not look it up in wiki?

Answer 2

Siddhartha Gautama, born a prince of the Shakya tribe in India roundabout 2500 years ago. It was prophesied before he was born that he would either be a great military leader or a great religious leader; his father, of course, wanted him to be a military leader. As a result, he was confined to the palace grounds and lavished with wealth and had, I believe, fourteen wives. What better way to keep a young guy at home?

He was about 25, I think, when he ventured out of his home for the first time. He saw four things: An old man, showing him the suffering that comes with old age; lepers, showing him the suffering of sickness; a funeral procession, showing him the suffering of death; and finally a beggar--I believe the term is sanyassin, but correct me if I'm wrong--who had nothing but his clothes and his begging bowl, but was happy.

Gautama left his palace and went out into the world to try and find that same peace the beggar had. He tried very ascetic religions, beating himself and eating a grain of rice a day, but that didn't work either. Finally he went and sat under a tree and meditated for seven days, and became enlightened. He realized that neither luxury nor denial worked, and a middle way needed to be found. So he set off and started his own religion. He was called The Buddha, which means "enlightened one".

Buddhism was pretty darn revolutionary for the time period--women could be ordained, and it left the Hindu caste system in the dust. He gathered many followers quickly, and taught nearly every day.

He died around the age of eighty; a friend prepared a bowl of mushroom soup for him, but hadn't realized the mushrooms were poison.

Answer 3

Siddhārtha Gautama was a spiritual teacher from the ancient Indian subcontinent and the historical founder of Buddhism. He is universally recognised by Buddhists as the Supreme Buddha of our age. The time of his birth and death are not certain; most modern historians date his lifetime from 563 BCE to 483 BCE, though some alternative research may suggest a date about a century later than this.

For more detail chek out link below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha

PS:

That fat bald Chinese figure is not Siddhartha Gautam, the Buddha. Its Chinese good luck figure.

Only americans think it to be Siddhartha.

Answer 4

I had to read about it in my philosophy class. Well according to readings, he was a prince in India and was well to do off, and didn't really go beyond the palace walls. But what he ended up seeing was people dying, being poor and sick. In other words, people suffer regardless of what they have. So he left his comfortable life to seek knowledge of such. And he eventually began a movement and taught followers. But while he was meditating one day into deep trance, he reached ENLIGHTENMENT, which was a deeper understanding, the highest thought of thought, and then boom! He was at peace with himself.

the main principles of buddhism are:
the four noble truths: life is suffering, there is a cause for suffering,there is a cessation or releasing of suffering (nirvana is the main goal for a buddhist), and there is a path to achieve cessaion.
And then the Eightfolds path is a breakdown to achieve Nirvana. And if you dont' achieve Nirvana, the soul would be reincarnated or reborn back into the earth. Just goodle buddhism and you will find a pleathora of infor mation of buddhism. There is a lot of information because there's variations of it, but the main points of buddhism are buddha, the 4 noble truths, eightfolds path, enlightenment, reincarnation, and nirvana.

Answer 5

i read some of the answers that too idiot.

this is for all lousy answers............................

well,i don't understand that why some of u guys are so stupid and idiot! and very narrow mind and less education and very cone head. do u know anything else over than your countries?

how dare u guys are to tell that buddha is only a fat and bald and bloke guy that always sitting?

if u don't really know much thing over and more than your limb countries,or if u are too stupid and moron and dumber,so accept that u are belong to all this points.

but don't too dare to say about what u never really know and understand. remember this carefully and deeply in your nut head.

or if u guys still keep answer in idiot way again,it means that u wanna provoke the anger of all buddhist,right?

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this is for the asker..................

buddha is not that fat and bald monk who sitting (that bald and fat monk,he was born after buddha. anyway he was a great monk as well,anyway they are not the same person)

buddha,before he turned to be a buddha,his name is "siddhata".
he was born in where we call nepal now. his father is a great king of india on that time. his mother died 7 days after he was born.

when buddha or "siddhata" was a teenager,he was very genious,he learnt every science from many guru.
one time one brahma ever told siddhata's father that siddhata had a great destiny............. if he would be a king,he would be very greater king the world ever had. but if not he would be the one who declare the truth to the wolrd and the world will remember him forever.

siddhata's father wanted his son to be a king as him. so he tried every way to make his son believe and admire in king's life.

but siddhata didn't think the same after he saw the old and pain and nearly died people outside the palace. he never saw this before (his father always keep him only in the palace with lots of entertain things that king can got),so when he saw this painful and weak and died people,he felt very regreat and wanted to help this people from all the suffer of pain and death from circle of life.

so he escape from palace. he spend lots and lots of year,tried to find enlightenment.

finally he got it. he knew the 4 noble truth that make him realize more about 1suffer 2 ways that suffer happened 3 how to get rid of suffer 4 finally,get rid of all suffer and enlightenment.

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this is the briefly and shortly information that i can tell u now. if u want more information,please look in the website.

Answer 6

buddha is a word that means awake one

if you really want to understand buddhism you have to do the study
sayaskambodhi as they say

i suggest reading dzogchen, its tibetan and normally very clear
however, buddhism has many different schools of thought
wikepedia is probably your best bet

Answer 7

"The important thing is that he was perfectly enlightened. His mind was completely at peace - completely free of any form of sorrow, lamentation, pain, grief and despair; any form of selfishness or greed or craving or attachment; any form of ill-will, resentment, aversion, hurt feelings, righteous indignation; any form of delusion or ignorance which could lead to doubt and confusion; any form of conceit or any conceiving of a self. His mind was perfectly at peace, abiding in complete knowledge of reality."
- Australian Buddhist monk Ajahn Jagaro

Answer 8

i don't know much about him, but why don't you look up buddhism on the internet? I have learned a lot from this religion from school. It's really quite lovely, they are such peaceful and loving people who take nothing too seriously. I just love their beliefs! =)

Answer 9

I recommend the book "Siddhartha" by Herman Hesse.

Answer 10

he was born a hindu. didn't like the cast system (untouchables). so he decided to invent a new religion. he didn't like the idea that a brahmin is born god and should always be the prestly class.