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About Gautama Buddha

Gautama Buddha was founder of buddhism. Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a wandering ascetic. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.”
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