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Buddha      With the own of the Buddha, being chosen as the awakened one at hop on thirty-five, his journey through life, and even in his death. Buddha has guided many to discovering the truths of life.     Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha at age thirty-five (Graves 1). The Buddha was believed to have been born in 563 B.C. in what outright is Nepal but at the time was a part of India (1). The founder of Buddhism was the tidings of a chief of the hill tribe of the shakyas, who gave up family life, became an ascetic when he was some twenty-nine years old (Bary 3).      Leg land ups say that as ottoman Maya, Buddhas mother, reached her fathers house, got out, and Buddha emerged from her right side. Without any help he took seven steps in each direction on the compass. Where he had steeped, lotus flowers sprouted everywhere, though it was not the season. He announced, No get on births have I to endure, for this is my last body. Now shall I destroy and addict out by the roots the sorrow that is caused by births and deaths. Seven eld after his birth, his mother passed away (Wangu 19).     "One day, the Buddhist tradition holds, Siddhartha cognise that his years of penance had only weakened his body." (Wangu 22). His body got so jade he couldnt meditate properly. Scriptures say he went to bathe in the river and the trees hang down to help him. Buddha sat under a tree and would not arise until he found the answer he had looked for (Wangu 23).      The Buddha had an act of self-sacrifice. He had discovered the way to end suffering, so he wanted to character his enlighment with others (Wangu 24). The basic condition of life is suffering. Suffering is caused by cravings and desires. There exists nirvana, an end to suffering. The way to get to Nirvana is to follow the "eight fold path." (Graves 2).     " The eightfold path is a series of eight stages that leads to the end of desire."(Wangu 26) About ccc million practice Buddhists (Wangu 6). After Buddha had found the answered he was looking for he set off for the towhist Saranth. There he thought people of his teachings. He drew the whole of life, which stand for his teachings (Wangu 24).     One day a blacksmith gave Buddha a meal, which caused him to become ill (he was about eighty).