Who Is Siddhartha Gautama's Influential Role In History

Siddhartha Gautama who is today known as Buddha has played an influential role in history and has impacted many worldviews significantly, one being Japan. This story originates in Nepal, when Queen Maha Maya gave birth to a beautiful boy Siddhartha. Siddhartha’s father King Suddhodana was the leader the Sakya clan, which predominantly speaking was a warrior clan, and was very noble with wealth and riches. Some say the queen gave birth to Siddhartha dreaming of a white elephant holding a lotus with its tusk. Anyways, after his birth, the entire city and domain had a grand party. Astrologers then came to have a word with the king. With their supreme power, they predicted that the child would grow to be a wise emperor with great power, or he would be a monk and turn is back to the kingdom to be a spiritual leader only if he was to see an old man, a diseased man and a dead man. The king frightened and petrified in the presence of the astrologers locked the gates for his son and made sure that Siddhartha would not set foot out of the kingdom for his own benefit. He also prohibited old people and

Arts flourished in Japan throughout history, each art has its own symbolic reference and origin of history. Buddhism helped in the development of Japanese art. Wealthy Japanese people pleaded famous artists to make Japanese paintings. Japanese architecture was also created. Many sculptures and temples were made throughout Japanese history. Buddhism influenced many Japanese arts and typical designs. Buddha added many symbols to Japanese arts, Japanese people started adding many white lotuses after Buddha to please him, and they also made many joyful pictures that did not include any animals or people suffering. Also millions of Buddha pictures were painted, either in the form of woodblock, painting or sculptures. They usually added Buddha meditating under the Bodhi tree for