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Siddhartha Gautama Research Paper

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Siddhartha Gautama also known as the (Buddha “the awakened one”) beside it was leader and founder of a sect of “wanderer ascetics Sramanas” which is one of sects that existed all over the India. Queen Maya, had a dream with a white elephant, descended from heaven and entered her breast, a sign that she had just conceived a very special being. The fact that the elephant descended from heaven meant that the child came from Tushita, the pure land of Buddha Maitreya. When the king's husband saw the prince born, he said "This child will be a chakravatin king who means a monarch who rules the whole world or an enlightened being, there are signs that indicate this. Since the age of the chakravatines kings has passed, it will become a Buddha and

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