Who was Gautam Buddha? what made him renounce his royal life and become a monk?- 8 marks- 200 words
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The Buddha was born into an aristocratic family, in the Shakya clan. He renounced lay life. According to Buddhist tradition, after several years of mendicancy, meditation, and asceticism, he awakened to understand mechanism which keeps us trapped in the cycle of rebirth. After a couple of centuries he came thus to be known by the title Buddha which means “Awakened One” or the "Enlightened One".[10] The Buddha then traveled throughout the Ganges plain teaching and building a religious community. The Buddha taught a middle way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the Indian śramaṇa movement.[11] He taught a spiritual path that included ethical training and meditative practices such as jhana and mindfulness. The Buddha also critiqued the practices of brahmin priests, such as animal sacrifice.
After his death, the Buddhist community compiled his teachings. The Suttas contain his discourses. The Vinaya contain his codes for monastic practice. These were passed down in Middle-Indo Aryan dialects through an oral tradition.[12][13] Later generations composed additional texts, such as systematic treatises known as Abhidharma, biographies of the Buddha, collections of stories about the Buddha's past lives known as Jataka tales, and additional discourses, i.e, the Mahayana
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The Buddha was a prince named "Siddhartha Gautama". He was born in Nepal and was the person who created thereligion of Buddhism.
He is also called as Sakyamuni Budhha