... child while they are in the womb. At death, bodies are cremated and thrown onto a sacred river, the river Ganges being the most sacred of all. For Dummies ® Buddhism Buddhism is named after the founder of Buddhism, the Buddha (Enlightened One) named Siddhartha Gautama, or Shakyamuni. Scholars believe he lived around 500 BC, and was born into the warrior caste as a Hindu prince of a northern ... India town. At the age of 29, Gautama saw suffering for the first time and decided ... to leave home and seek religious enlightenment. He practiced ascetism and quickly became dissatisfied, as ...

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