Siddhartha Gautama is the founder of Buddhism, the fourth largest religion in the world. He is regarded variously as a human spiritual teacher or an omniscient active deity.
Buddha, means 'wise' or 'enlightened' in Sanskrit.
Gautama was the son of an aristocratic family in Nepal. At first he lived a life in luxury and comfort.
At 29 of age a great discontent befell Gautama, when he realized that men are subject to old age, disease, and death - that human life is suffering. He gave up his palace to search for the truth - becoming a wandering ascetic.
He went south to the Magadha kingdom in search of teachers. He tried fasting, and yoga, and living as a hermit in the forest. After six years of severe austerity he abandoned the ascetic life to seek his own path to Enlightenment.
As he sat under a banyan tree a sense of clear vision came to him and he became a supreme Buddha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha
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