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The Story of BUDDHA Avatar
In
BUDDHA Avatar, Lord Vishnu incarnates himself as BUDDHA,
the ascetic prince who renounced the throne to lead the
world on the path of peace. He is the founder of the
BUDDHIST religion prominent across the world. In certain
sects of Hinduism, he is considered to be a divine
incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He was born the crown prince
of the Kapilavastu to Suddhodana and Maya. He was named
Siddhartha, meaning "All thing fulfilled" by the king. But
his mother died soon after his birth but Prajapati, the
sister of Maya, brought Siddhartha up.
Buddha
was saddened by death of living creatures, since his
childhood days and used to question: "Alas! Do all living
creatures kill each other?" He wasn't happy with any
answers that were provided to him and he decided to find
out the meaning and the absolute truth and he left his
wife and child to a hermit's life in the forest and one
day, became the enlightened one. His preaching spawned off
the religion of Buddhism now popular across the whole
world.
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