A long time ago a prince was born called Siddhartha Gautama, who would change India forever. As a child, Siddhartha was "imprisoned" within the palace gates in order to protect him from the troubles of the world. This worked for a while, but then Siddhartha grew up and became curious of what was on the other side of those gates. At this time Siddhartha began taking little day trips outside of ... the palace gates. On each of these visits Siddhartha saw ... a little piece of life, or suffering. The first of these sights was an elderly or feeble man passing by. This confused Siddhartha becaus...

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... that they"d better pray to more gods, you never know which will work. It shows that they never trust in one. The US is another instance. 93% of Americans believe in God. 87% of them are Christians. 2% of them is Jewish. ... just by their believe. And this time, God didn't make them disappointed. They met those warm-hearted Indians. Indians helped the Protestants on their crops. When they had their harvest next year, they give all their thanks to God. They even made ... the tradition of religions. When the children are pretty young, parents begin to tell them the religious stories. Maybe...

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... always wished to have a son, who would be raised to become a great king that would conquer all of India and be crowned as emperor. So the prince was given the name Siddhartha, which means "every wish fulfilled." When the prince was just seven days old, his mother, Queen Maya passed away and it is said that after her death, she was born in ... Thusitha, where Lord Buddha visited later and preached a sermon. After Queen Maya's death, her sister, MahaPrajapathi, became his stepmother. According to the Indian traditions, King Suddhodana invited over a hundred learned Brahmins to a feast at ...

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... of Siddhartha Gautama. Gautama, later known as Buddha, discovered suffering and that he was not happy with his wealthy life as a Prince. At the age of twenty-nine, Prince Gautama decided that he wanted more than anything to discover how one might overcome suffering. "Siddhartha studied for six years with a group of five ascetics, practicing austerities and self- mortifications; ... for others; he showed civilization what they must do for themselves by setting an example. The Mahayana, which means "the greater vehicle," thought that the Theravada was only part of Buddha's teachings; thi...

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... of years before Jesus, their lives were very similar, and yet so different. The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama, a prince. Before his birth, Siddhartha's mother dreamt that a white elephant entered her side and also that her son was born from her side. The white elephant signified the purity and power of the child to be. His mother died shortly after his birth, and was raised ... seen anyone who was, in the least amount, sick. A corpse was the third new thing that he had seen that night. The corpse being taken for cremation and no one seemed to really care or notice. The fourth and f...

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... three thousand years old, were written based on thousands of years of philosophical thought passed by word of mouth thought the centuries. (Ellis & Esler, 2003, pg. 76-77) The Mahabharata is the longest poem in the world. It has 100,000 verses. Many people wrote it over a period of several hundred years. This ... that are included to teach important lessons. The Ramayana has 24,000 verses. It is thought to be the work of a man called Val-miki, and was written down around 100 BC. It tells the story of Prince Ramah and his wife Sita. The stories in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana can be u...

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