Basic Knowledge About

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Basic Knowledge About Buddhism
By Katherine Bowen 9I
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Who Founded Buddhism? It was Siddhartha Gautama
Siddhartha Gautama Was brought up in luxury,
living the life of a local prince, surrounded by
everything he could want. A wise man called Asita
saw Siddhartha as a child and predicted that he
would grow up to be a great religious leader and
he would give up his luxury life style. He
married a woman called Yasodhara, a local
princess he won her though winning lots of
competitive games, they had a child called
Rahula.
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Siddhartha father, Shuddhodana, hoped his son
would one day take over as ruler, rather than
become a religious leader, as had been predicted.
He naturally tried to stop Siddhartha becoming a
religious leader by not showing or telling him
that suffering and death happens, in case it lead
him to think more deeply about life.
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One day Siddhartha went on a chariot ride,
Siddhartha discovered four things he never knew
existed, these were An old man A sick man A
corpse A holy man
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Siddhartha was determined to find the truth about
life and about how to over come suffering. He
went and sat under a Bodhi tree and vowed that he
would not get up until he found out the truth
about life.
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Under the Bodhi tree he got enlightened, he
resisted great temptations these were them
Women Jealousy Greed
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There are different types of Buddhism otherwise
known as different types of school.
Pure Land
Zen
Tibetan
Mahayana