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He was called Siddhartha Gautama in his childhood. His father was king Śuddhodana, leader of the Shakya clan in what was the growing state of Kosala, and his mother was queen Maya. According to Buddhist legends, the baby exhibited the marks of a great man.
Siddhartha Gautama, [e] most commonly referred to as the Buddha (lit. ' the awakened one ' ), [ 4 ] [ f ] [ g ] was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia , [ h ] during the 6th or 5th century BCE [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ b ] and founded Buddhism .
Birth of the Buddha, Lorian Tangai, Gandhara.The Buddha is shown twice: being received by Indra, and then standing up immediately after. The iconography of the events reflects the elaborated versions of the Buddha's life story that had become established from about 100 AD in Gandharan art and elsewhere, such as Sanchi and Barhut, and were given detailed depictions in cycles of scenes ...
Rahul or Rāhula (Sanskrit; born c. 534 BCE or 451 BCE) was the only son of Siddhārtha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, and his wife, princess Yaśodharā.He is mentioned in numerous Buddhist texts, from the early period onward.
Buddhist texts such as the Pāli Canon say that Kapilavastu was the childhood home of Gautama Buddha, on account of it being the capital of the Shakyas, over whom his father ruled. [2] Kapilavastu is the place where Siddhartha Gautama spent the first 29 years of his life.
According to the sacred texts of the Buddhist Commentaries, Maya Devi gave birth to Siddhartha Gautama in Lumbini in c. 624 BCE. [a] [2] [3] Siddhartha Gautama achieved Enlightenment, and became Shakyamuni Buddha who founded Buddhism. [4] [5] [6] He later passed into parinirvana at the age of 80 years, in c.544 BCE.
Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India.He was a teacher and advisor of Suddhodana, a sage and seer, the father of the Buddha, and is best known for having predicted that prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu would either become a great chakravartin or become a supreme religious leader; Siddhartha was later known as Gautama ...
He was known as Siddharta Gautama in his pre-religious life, Siddharta meaning “He who achieves His Goal”, with "Gautama" the name of his clan. Later he was called Shakyamuni (“sage of the Shakya clan”). [11] His mother, Maya died within a week of his birth, and he was raised by his aunt Pajapati, who was also a wife of his father. The ...