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Siddhartha Gautama or Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. Shakyamuni was born into a princely family, the rulers of the Shakyas. He lived a sheltered, abundunt life and married at 16. But his restlessness with confinement to the palace soon led to a trip outside the palatial walls, and there he soon realized that his life was not that of the common man. He had come to know what suffering was. He saw death. This led him down the path of finding the reason people suffer, and how to escape suffering. With enlightenment he became "Buddha," or "he who is awake." He then proceeded to teach his philosophy, and this has become the religion of today that so many millions adhere to, Buddhism.

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