Lord Buddha, before he attained enlightenment, was known as Prince Siddhartha Gauthama. ... His father, King Suddhodana was overjoyed with the arrival of the prince. ... So the prince was given the name Siddhartha, which means "every wish fulfilled.... According to the Indian traditions, King Suddhodana invited over a hundred learned Brahmins to a feast at his palace in order to predict the little prince's future. ... Since he had experienced extreme luxuries as a prince, he thought perhaps extreme depravation and punishment of the body might lead to Nirvana. ...

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Being raised in the palace, Prince Siddhartha was sheltered from the cruelty of the outside world. ... After living so many scripted years, Prince Siddhartha left his home and family to become a wanderer in search of "enlightenment" (Mitchell 10). ...

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Whilst some in high places and positions of authority such as the Kandyan prince Vijaya Pala may have accepted Portuguese customs and traditions by adopting them as their own (3), the majority of the civilian population resisted Western religion and culture. ... "Sacred texts" (the Dhamma for Buddhists and the Sanskrit texts for Hindus) were also ordered to be destroyed whenever discovered. (2) Indeed, given the Portuguese colonist's eagerness to resort to violence in "converting" the native populations to Catholicism, it is perhaps no surprise that the aforementioned...

• Word Count: 1990
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Buddhism is based on the beliefs of the Buddha, who set forth a new "religion" was different from the other world religions. It is a religion that was based on the in all lives there are four passing, and the Buddha's six rejections of Hinduism. It allows Buddhists to take refuge in the Buddha a...

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Prince Shotoku, the son of Emperor Yomei, soon gained power within the state, and it was during this time, the Shotoku Era, in which Buddhism flourished. ... Prince Shotoku did not found a school of Buddhism, nor was he ever a priest of any kind. ...

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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...

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Christianity: Jesus was a preacher and healer who lived 2,000 years ago in Palestine. After He died, his disciples spread his teachings over the land. Christianity is now the world's largest religion. Christians believe that there is one God who is the creator of the world who is kind loving and fo...

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Confucianism The founder of Confucianism is "Confucius" who was a minor official and philosopher who lived during the Warring-States period. Confucius and his followers shared a primary goal: to create nobility through proper education, belief in the idea of heaven, and live an ethical life. These l...

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Buddhism as we now know it began about 2,500 years ago and is a religion to over 300 million people all around the world. Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha was born in Lumbini, India. Siddhartha was born into a royal family, his father King Suddhodana was the leader of a powerful clan nam...

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Buddhism "Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things, natural an...

• Word Count: 1519
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