Question

Write the important events in the life of gautam buddha

Answer 1

Gautama taught a Middle Way between sensual indulgence and the severe asceticism found in the śramaṇa movement[9]common in his region. He later taught throughout other regions of eastern India such as Magadha and Kosala.[8][10]

Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism. He is believed by Buddhists to be an enlightened teacher who attained full Buddhahood and shared his insights to help sentient beings end rebirth and suffering. Accounts of his life, discourses and monasticrules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarised after his death and memorized by his followers. Various collections of teachings attributed to him were passed down by oral tradition and first committed to writing about 400 years later.

In Vaishnava Hinduism, the historic Buddha is considered to be an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.[11] Of the ten major avatars of Vishnu, Vaishnavites believe Gautama Buddha to be the ninth and most recent incarnation.

Answer 2

Answer:

Lord Buddha was born in 566 B.C. in a village called Lumbini in Kapilvastu. He was named Siddhartha. His father Suddhodana wished his son to become a great monarch.

Legends say that astrologers who cast the child’s horoscope predicted a brilliant future for Siddhartha either as a spiritual leader or as a conquering hero. In the former case he was to be guided by four signs i.e. old age, sickness, death and renunciation.

Since his father did not want this to happen, he built three castles for his son’s residence so that Siddhartha may not come across these four signs. One day the prince went out for a drive and came across a man leaning on a stick.

The sight profoundly upset him and he learnt from his charioteer all about sickness. The next day he met an old man, on the third day a dead body and on the fourth a recluse.

The Buddhist scriptures say that God had assumed these forms for detracting the prince from the worldly life his father had planned for him.

Later he was married to Yasodhara, daughter of Dandapani, noble of his kingdom. But marriage did not solve life’s problem for Siddhartha. In spite of having a family life, one dark night he left the palace without being seen by anybody.

After leaving the palace Siddhartha attached himself to several teachers, one after another, but in his attempt to find a solution to the mystery of life none of them was helpful and finally he decided to tread the path alone.