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| | Buddhism - The Life of Buddha (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Actually, he was born Siddhartha Gautama and the term Buddha was a title meaning "the awakened one", or "the one who knows", and was used from the age of thirty-five. |
 | | Legend has it that, soon after Siddhartha was born, he was examined by the holy men, who announced that he would become either, a great political leader and would unify India, or a great religious leader. |
 | | Gautama took on the life of a wandering monk, accepting food as it was offered to him. |
| www.acay.com.au /~silkroad/buddha/h_life.htm (1751 words) |
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