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Prince Siddhartha Gautama Research Paper

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In about 561~563 B.C.E before Queen Maya had given birth to Prince Siddhartha Gautama, she dreamed that she was high over the Himalayas to a silver mountain and set on a silver couch. A white elephant with six tusks walked around her then stuck her on the right side. The king Suddhodana and the queen went and asked the Brahmins to interpret her dream, they said: “you will give birth to a son, he can rule the universe or see the suffering and become the enlightened one” According to the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJWPFYygGPc Prince Siddhartha Gautama was born from the queen’s right side wherein her dream the elephant struck her. The king wanted his son to be great and powerful king, he didn’t want him to see the world suffering so …show more content…

Instead, he would seek the “middle way” to a path of enlightenment. The prince’s new way of thinking had the other ascetics abandon him, now he believes that he is on the right track. According to https://student.teachtci.com page. paragraph three ‘On his 35th birthday, Siddhartha bathed in the river and rested quietly in a grove of trees beneath a full moon.’ After he has woken up he had a strong feeling that he would soon become enlightened. Then the grass cuter gave him eight handfuls of soft grass as a present. According to https://student.teachtci.com page. paragraph three ‘Siddhartha walked until he reached a tree that would become known as the Bodhi (BOH-dee), or Enlightenment, tree. He placed the grass at the foot of the tree and sat down, vowing to meditate under the tree until he attained enlightenment.’ According to the Buddhist tradition and https://student.teachtci.com, ‘while Siddhartha was meditating, a god named Mara tried to frighten him. Then Mara sent his three daughters—Discontent (unhappiness), Passion, and Desire—to try to tempt Siddhartha, but he resisted them all. He continued to meditate through the rest of the night about the nature of reality and the way to reach nirvana, or true happiness and peace. At night, his mind filled with the truths he had been seeking. He saw his past lives, the great cycle of rebirth, and the importance of karma. He saw how to gain freedom from the continuous cycle, and therefore end all suffering.’ The truths that the Buddha have discovered under the Bodhi tree are the basic principle of Buddhism, they usually call then the Four Noble Truth. The Buddha would spend the rest of his life sharing these truths with many other

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