Gautama Buddha and His Contribution towards Buddhism! Siddhartha, Gautama or Sakyamuni, who was known as Buddha after his attainment of Enlightenment probably lived between 560 and 480 B.CL He was the son of Suddhodan, Chief of Kshatriya caste who ruled in Kapilavastu in the foothills of the Himalayas on Nepal border. Traditionally he was said to have been born in [...]
After Mahavir Jina, another spiritual guru who appeared in the religious firmament of India to rectify the extreme dominance of the Brahmanical class was Gautama Buddha. Like his predecessor he too raised his voice against the ritualistic practices and tried to purify and simplify the existing religious system. Thus in course of time there grew a new religion called Buddhism. [...]
Early Life: It was the Buddhism that gave the greatest blow to Brahmanism in 6th century B.C. This religion was started by Gautam Buddha who was a contemporary of Mahavira. He was a kshatriya and belonged to the Sakya clan, whose territory was represented by that part of the Nepal which lies immediately to the north of the Basti district [...]