Gautama Buddha
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Gautama Buddha, also called the Shakyamuni Buddha was born into the Shakya clan, a community in the eastern Indian subcontinent in the 5th century BCE. The Buddhist text, Buddhavamsa and Mahavamsa (II, 1-24) traces the origin of the Shakyas to king Okkaka (Pali equivalent to Sanskrit Ikshvaku).
He was born to a Hindu Kshatriya family, the son of Śuddhodana - a hereditary monarch and descendant of the Suryavansha (Solar dynasty) of Ikṣvāku. Gautama Buddha was the 140th King of the Suryavamsa.
At the age of 29, Gautama Buddha left his palace to meet his subjects. Touched by the human conditions that he saw, he started a deep spiritual quest.
At 35, while seated under a Bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya, India, he attained enlightenment. He travelled far and wide and taught the Science of Realising The Truth through three teachings: The Three Universal Truths, The Four Noble Truths, and The Noble Eightfold Path. He left the body at
80. His teachings were absorbed into what is today called Buddhism.