Siddhartha Research Paper

Siddhartha Gautama, also known as Gautama Buddha or just simply the Buddha was born in what is now known as Nepal sometime between c. 563 BCE and c. 480 BCE into the caste system with his caste being the Kshatriya, the caste of royalty or the military elite. He was born to Śuddhodana, a head chief of the Shakya tribe, and Maya, a princess. Siddhartha’s father held a naming ceremony for a five day old Siddhartha where eight Brahmin priests predicted that Siddhartha would either be a great holy man or a great king. The prophecy was correct as Siddhartha Gautama has had one of the largest impacts on Asian culture by creating the fourth most popular religion in the world that is still active 2,500 years later.

We don’t know details about the life of Siddhartha “Buddha” as nothing was written down by him or his disciples until hundreds of years after his death. However, the legends that were passed down paint a very humble and intriguing picture of the man known as Buddha. The story states that Buddha was born into a very lavish lifestyle; he was given anything and everything he could ever want and kept very sheltered in order to protect him from the realities of the world around him. Eventually becoming curious of the surrounding world he escaped the royal walls and seen what the world

As Siddhartha was growing up he excelled in everything such as mastering all traditional arts, sciences, mathematics, and knew sixty-four languages including their respective alphabets. Siddhartha was very wise at a young age, and didn’t have to study, but he did anyways to please his father and to help others. He also trained in martial arts, archery, and tried to constantly give spiritual meanings, and wisdom to people to help them on to a spiritual path. During an archery competition Siddhartha said, “With the bow of meditative concentration I will fire the arrow of wisdom and kill the tiger of ignorance in living beings.” After that he shot his arrow, and it was said to have went through five iron tigers, and seven trees before vanishing

To begin this young man started off in a rich state of living, he had everything he could ever need, thanks to his wealth family in the year 560 B.C.E. Finally one day Siddhartha left the palace and saw life for how it really was. Siddhartha went through what they call the “four passing sights” the first stage was Decrepit old man, Siddhartha did not know that old age existed. The second was a diseased person, Siddhartha didn’t know that sickness exists. The third was death he also did not know death existed. Finally last but not least Ascetic, Siddhartha didn’t know that people would live an austere life- from due to religion.

He wants to enlighten himself, but it just happens to be that the path takes him to his enlightenment. Siddhartha failed many times to find enlightenment, which would bring him inner peace. His journey that took him from a young age to very old one was to first enlighten himself. Once finding enlightenment in himself and the river, he enlightened others like Govinda. To get to the river, he traveled along a path. This path brought him to the Samanas, the monks, the risky city, and the river, where enlightenment was finally found. To reach his inner peace and finally complete the purpose of his personal journey, Siddhartha traveled along the path. Literally it was a path, yet metaphorically it was the different stages of life, they flow together but each step is an important part along the journey. Without the path of life, there is no purpose, one is walking cluelessly, not knowing what to look for. Siddhartha knew he wanted to reach inner peace by finding enlightenment, it just took him multiple levels to finally feel

In week three readings, stated that Siddhartha, the wish fulfiller lived in luxury. Siddhartha had everything at his feet. The Gods wanted Siddhartha to have four sight so they arrange for it. The four sight included a sick man, a bent old man, a dead person, and a monk seeking eternal pleasure. By Siddhartha having the four sight he felt that by this happening to him it was a wake up call and because of him questioning his existence and wealth of luxury while eithers or suffering. Siddhartha was hurt when his father Buddha had to leave him and his mother behind to go search for knowledge. In the reading one will find that there are many cultures that man have to leave their wife and children behind as they search

Living a life of wealth and riches, Siddhartha Gautama was a prince who reigned around 400 BC. Siddhartha became Buddha- the enlightened one- through comprehending the roots of human suffering while living a disciplined life (BBC.CO.UK). During his reign, he was the leader and founder of a sect of wanderer ascetics (Sramanas), one of many that existed in India during the time (ANCIENT.EU). After his death, his sect slowly grew into a religious-like movement, traveling along the Silk Road and by sea, and turned into the core teachings of Buddhism, and was finally established as a state religion in India by the time of Emperor Ashoka during the third century BCE (ANCIENT.EU).

     Siddhartha, set in India, is subtitled an "Indic Poetic Work," and it clearly owes much to Indian religions. But the question of the exact nature of Hesse's debt to various aspects of Indian religion and philosophy in Siddhartha is quite complicated and deserves detailed discussion. This essay will discuss the elements of Hindu and Buddhist thought present in Siddhartha and make distinctions between them.

Siddhartha Gautama was born as the royal prince at Lumini (a place in Nepal now) in 6th century B.C.E. His father was the king of a clan named Shakyas named Shuddhodana Gautama, and his mother was queen Mayadevi ("The Birth of Buddha - Kadampa Buddhism."). One day, Queen Mayadevi went out to share food and clothes for the poverty people. After returning to the palace, the Queen had the dream that the white elephant descended from heaven and entered into her womb. After that, the Queen got pregnant. When she was giving birth of the child, she did not experience the pain. It was a miracle birth. The Hindu gods and godless came and blessed the child, and they took him from the side of the queen (“About Buddha.”). The baby stood up right after the delivery and he walked seven steps into four directions. He had the birthmark of a wheel or chakra at the bottom of his feet. Queen May died seven days after of Siddhartha’ birth. After that, Siddhartha was taken care by his mother’s sister. As the practice of all near East civilization, the king invited the fortuneteller- Brahmin to the palace to predict the future of the

Siddhartha Gautama, who would later be known as buddha, has changed the lives of millions around the world. He was born in Nepal as a prince and followed the customs of indian tribes. Siddhartha was hidden from the hardships and suffering of the world and was shocked when he ventured off and witnessed these things. He set out to end suffering and help others achieve Nirvana.

When young Siddhartha was a couple of days old, a sacred man forecasted the Prince would be either a military hero or an extraordinary otherworldly educator. Chief Shuddhodana favored the first result and began training his son accordingly. While Buddha was raised in extravagance, Chief sheltered him from learning religion or seeing human suffering. Young Buddha grew up carrying on with the extreme existence of a youthful sovereign. As indicated by custom, he wedded at the youthful age of sixteen to a young lady named Yasodhara. His father had requested that he carry on with an existence of aggregate segregation, however one day Siddhartha wandered out into the world and was gone up against with the truth of the unavoidable enduring of life. The following day, at the age of 29, he exited his kingdom and

Siddhartha Gautama was born between 563 and 480 BCE as the prince of Lumbini (in what is now Nepal). His mother died in either in childbirth or shortly thereafter and and his father was left to raise him. During his birth celebrations, it was predicted that Siddhartha would either become a great king or a great spiritual leader. His father wanted him to take over the throne, so he avoided religious teachings and sheltered him from suffering. Siddhartha, unsatisfied with with the life he was leading and yearning to learn about the world, he left his home at twenty-nine to seek the true meaning of life. On his travels he saw an old man, a diseased man,

Beneeth the Wheel (1906), Demian (1919), Wandering (1920), Siddhartha (1922), Steppenwolf (1927), The Glass Bead Game (1943), etc.,-the main works of Hesse are like his own biographies. These works follow Hesse’s self-will of confessing his own life. They are the monologues in which the protagonists contemplate themselves in their relation to the world and to themselves. Concurrently, Hesse revisits his heroes in order to explore his own identity, partially exposed in each of them. According to Unseld they are sketches of Hesse’s own personality, especially Josef Knecht, the hero of The Glass Bead

When he was 17 years old, Siddhartha grew bored of his easy life and left his family. As he traveled through the town, he encountered three men: an old man, a sick man, and a dead man. These three encounters symbolized the different levels of suffering Siddhartha had never experienced while living on the estate. These encounters made Siddhartha realize how much pain and suffering filled the world.

After my interview with The Buddha, I found two Hindus in power that were willing to tell me about their perceptions of Buddhism. One Hindu stated that Buddhism has always seemed to be not a new religion to him, but more of a natural development of the Indian mind religiously, philosophically, socially and politically. The other Hindu did not support Buddhism and stated that even though Siddhartha may have achieved peace next to the river, the merchants continued to rob, the elites continued to exploit, and the poor continued to go hungry. Therefore he believed that the Buddha’s perceptions on the world is both naive and hardly relevant to bringing about a better world and the betterment of humanity. Siddhartha Gautama went on to spread his