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Siddhartha Gautama's Life: The Buddhist Way Of Life

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The Buddhists also worship a god, but it is a very different god. They believe that a young man named Siddhartha Gautama was born into royalty about 2,500 years ago. One day he was outside his palace and saw a sick man, an old man, and a dead body. This opened his eyes to see what the suffering of the real world was like and so he decided to become a monk. This didn't make him feel satisfied, so he decided to live a ¨Middle Life¨ or a life in which he gave up most of his earthly possessions. One day while he was under a Bodhi tree he was ¨enlightened¨ or had new thoughts and ideas. After his enlightenment he became known as the Buddha meaning “the enlightened one”. His teachings and ways of life became the religion of Buddhism. Like Christianity,

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