meaning of buddhism
The teaching established by Buddha is known as Buddhism in English. Buddha is one who has attained Bodhi; And Bodhi means knowledge, an ideal state of intellectual and moral perfection that man can attain through purely human means. The word Buddha literally means enlightened, knower. Buddhists believe that a Buddha is born in each age, and our Buddha – sage Gautama, who atta
ined enlightenment under the Bo tree at Buddha Gaya in India – was the seventh in succession. Gautam Buddha was born in 623 BCE as the son of an Indian king at the site of modern Nepal. Lumbini is the birthplace of Buddha, Nepal is a small country in Southeast Asia, known mainly for the high summits and deep valleys of the beautiful Himalaya mountains, Lumbini is in the lovely country of Nepal, It is in a very good country. The wise men of the kingdom foresaw that he would become either an emperor or a Buddha, and his father, wanting him to be an emperor, kept him utterly secluded from all unpleasant things, so that he might not become wise by seeing life. But the gods knew that Gotama must become the Buddha, and so they visited earth in various forms to let him see them. On three successive days, while on his way to the royal park, Gotama saw an old man, a sick man, and a co**se, and thus he learned that men—all men—must suffer and die. On the fourth day he saw a monk; from this he understood that to learn the way of overcoming man's universal sorrow he must give up worldly pleasures. Accordingly, in his twenty-ninth year, he renounced his kingdom and became an ascetic.
