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Later, a friend of Suddhodana named Kaludayi invited the Buddha to return, at the request of Suddhodana. The Buddha also preached the dharma to him and Kaludayi was later ordained as a monk. After this request from his father Gautama Buddha returned to his father's kingdom where he preached dharma to him. Gautama later returned again to his ...
Śuddhodana (Sanskrit: शुद्धोदन; Pali: Suddhodana), meaning "he who grows pure rice," [3] was the father of Siddhartha Gautama, better known as the Buddha. [4] He was a leader of the Shakya, who lived in an oligarchic republic, with their capital at Kapilavastu.
Before He Was Buddha: The Life of Siddhartha, by Hammalawa Saddhatissa; Buddha, a manga series that ran from 1972 to 1983 by Osamu Tezuka; Siddhartha novel by Hermann Hesse, written in German in 1922; Lord of Light, a novel by Roger Zelazny depicts a man in a far future Earth Colony who takes on the name and teachings of the Buddha
His father was the king of the Sakya clan. After the birth of his son, King Śuddhodana called upon eight Brahmins to predict his son's future. While seven of them declared that the prince would either be a Buddha or a great king, the Brahmin Kaundinya was confident that he would renounce the world and become a Buddha. [1]
[9] [45] After the Buddha had a meal, Rāhula followed the Buddha and asked him for his inheritance. [17] The Buddha did not try to prevent Rāhula from following him, [48] but in some versions of the story, some women from the court did try to, yet Rāhula persisted. [49] He then looked at his father and says, "Pleasant is your shadow, recluse ...
The father of the Buddha was called Suddhodana, "Who grows pure rice," and belonged to the tribe of the Sakiya. The Sakiya's were Khattiya's and thus belonged to the (then) highest caste, the martial caste, or better: nobility of office, tasked with the administration and enforcement of the Sakiya republic.
Tradition says that Ānanda was the first cousin of the Buddha, [6] his father being the brother of Suddhodana (Sanskrit: Śuddhodana), the Buddha's father. [7] In the Pāli and Mūlasarvāstivāda textual traditions, his father was Amitodana (Sanskrit: Amṛtodana ), but the Mahāvastu states that his father was Śuklodana—both are brothers ...
In Buddhist discourses, the Great Renunciation and Departure are usually mentioned in the life of the Buddha, among several other motifs that cover the religious life of the Buddha-to-be, Prince Siddhārtha Gautama (Pali: Siddhattha Gotama): his first meditation, marriage, palace life, four encounters, life of ease in palace and renunciation, great departure, encounter with hunters, and ...