The story of the Buddha starts
around 560 BCE when a young child that went by the name of Siddhartha Gautama,
was born in the beautiful foothills of the Himalayas to a very wealthy family.
His father received some sort of revelation that his son, Siddhartha, would be
a great war leader or a great teacher.
When
Siddhartha was a young adult he decided to give us his life of wealth to become
a monk. The life of a monk is not easy, after years of physical degradation and
suffering he decided to sit down and meditate. While he was meditating demons
came to tempt him. However, he resisted them. After days of meditation he
received enlightenment. And from that moment on he was known as the Buddha. He
started to teach and instructed disciples about the path to enlightenment until
he dies at the age of 80.
When
the Buddha died Buddhism spread by missionaries all throughout Asia and Tibet
influencing all the people that lived there.
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