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Buddha‘s Life Story
Buddha's life story is not presented uniformly in all details in the various Buddhist traditions; this has to do with the fact that certain aspects of his life serve as inspiration and are emphasized to different degrees. At the time of the birth of the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni, India was a flourishing advanced civilization, characterized by great spiritual openness. A wide variety of philosophical schools and viewpoints flourished simultaneously. People expected a teaching to be holistic and for a worldview to permeate life. Teachings had to have a foundation, have clear methods, and have an attainable goal. People were very careful with assertions: For as soon as someone held a view that another could refute, he became his disciple - so demanded the intellectual honesty of the time.
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Buddha's life story is not presented uniformly in all details in the various Buddhist traditions; this has to do with the fact that certain aspects of his life serve as inspiration and are emphasized to different degrees. At the time of the birth of the historical Buddha Siddhartha Gautama Shakyamuni, India was a flourishing advanced civilization, characterized by great spiritual openness. A wide variety of philosophical schools and viewpoints flourished simultaneously. People expected a teaching to be holistic and for a worldview to permeate life. Teachings had to have a foundation, have clear methods, and have an attainable goal. People were very careful with assertions: For as soon as someone held a view that another could refute, he became his disciple - so demanded the intellectual honesty of the time.
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