BUDDHA

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Buddha was one of the world’s great religious teachers. His real name was Gautama Siddhartha. He was born in the year 500 B.C. He was born a prince. His father was the Raja of Kapilavasta. But he did not want to be a Raja. He wanted to find out the meaning of life. He left his palace as a young man. He went out to seek the truth. For years he lived a hard life of poverty. He went to many teachers. But they could not help him. At last the light came to him. He was thinking deeply under the Bo tree, near Benares. He became the “Buddha”, or enlightened one”. He spent the rest of his life in teaching his gentle religion. He won many disciples. Before he died, his religion, called Buddhism, had spread for and wide. He was over eighty when he died.