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  God - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Buddha believed the more important issue was to bring beings out of suffering to liberation.
Enlightened ones are called Arhats or Buddha (e.g, the Buddha Sakyamuni), and are venerated.
Buddhism also teaches of the existence of the devas or heavenly beings who temporarily dwell in celestial states of great happiness but are not yet free from the cycle of reincarnations (samsara).
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 Buddha Sakyamuni : quotes, biography and bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Buddha Sakyamuni (563 - 483 B.C), founder of Buddhism, Buddhism
He was born the son of a king of the Sakya clan of the Kshatriya, or warrior, caste (hence his later epithet Sakyamuni, “the sage of the Sakyas”) in the Himalayan foothills in what is now S Nepal.
It was predicted at his birth that he would become either a world ruler or a world teacher; therefore his father, King Suddhodana, who wished Siddhartha to succeed him as ruler, took great pains to shelter him from all misery and anything that might influence him toward the religious life.
www.onelittleangel.com /wisdom/quotes/buddha_sakyamuni.asp   (588 words)

  
 Buddha   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
of decline to renew the doctrine of the founder of buddhism, the buddha.
since buddha never emphasized his concept of the divine, buddhism is left with some...
buddha quotes (hindu prince gautama siddharta, the founder of buddhism, 563-483 bc).
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 Encyclopaedia :: encyclopedia : Religio Buddhistica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
systema hoc religiosum potius et practicum quam philosophicum a quodam sapiente solitario sive monacho dicto idcirco Sakyamuni, cuius nomen verum Siddharta Gautama fuisse videtur.
Cum vero vis communis sive natura, ubique diffusa et tamen omnino indeterminata, similis nihilo sit, supremum principium omnium entium et finem esse nihilum absolutum, annihilationem essendi, existendi, cogitandi, sive Nirvanam, mortem completam sequitur; adeo ut omnes actiones morales a Sakyamuni praescriptae via sint ad nihilum, finem omnium philosophi aspirationum.
Per totam enim Indiam, temporem nativitatis Christi apud Sinas, saeculum 7 apud Tibetanos, saeculum 13 et 14 adhuc vividius ubique sub nova forma diffusa est.
encyclopaedia.cc /Religio_Buddhistica   (243 words)

  
 Desicritics.org: How the Buddha became a Catholic Saint
The Jataka tales is a collection of fairy tales, riddles, parables, humorous moral tales and biographies all loosely centered around the previous lives of the Sakyamuni Buddha.
The story of Barlaam and Joasaph is that of a young Indian prince, Josaphat (or Joasaph), being converted to Christianity by the arguments of Barlaam.
The story is a Christianized version of one of the legends of Buddha, as even the name Josaphat would seem to show.
desicritics.org /2006/03/21/001747.php   (2563 words)

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