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====The Buddha====
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''' The Buddha''' is title used to refer to the religious teacher and founder of Buddhism, '''Siddhartha Gautama''', who lived somewhere around 563-400 BCE. Siddhartha was born in modern day city of Lumbini to an aristocratic family, his father being the elected head of the Shakya Clan in what's now modern day India and Nepal. Upon his birth, the local Brahmin came to read his future and told his father that he would become either a great king or a great religious teacher, with the first being guaranteed so long as the young Siddhartha never saw human suffering. This of course didn't work, and so Siddhartha came upon a sick man, then an old man, then a corpse, and finally an ascetic. These sights and his discussion with the ascetic eventually lead him to abandon his parents, wife, and child, and become a wandering ascetic himself, to find a way to stop suffering.

During this time he took up yogic meditation, but abandoned it as it didn't help him. He then took up ascetic practices, going to the point his bones showed through his skin, giving them up when he realized all it was doing was just making him weaker. After all this, he decided to meditate and contemplate under a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodhi_Tree Bodhi Tree] in Bodh Gaya, and after 10 days, he achieved liberation from the cycle of reincarnation and gained knowledge on how others could achieve it by letting go of their desires. He then spent the rest of his life teaching others and holding sermons, reunited with his family, and established the first monastic orders and communities. Though his date of death is disputed, it is said that he died at the age of 80, in what is the modern day town of Kushinagar.
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