... Bible - The New Testament) is only assumed to be fact by believers and the actual factual content of it has been questioned in the past. Born in around 560BC in Northern India, Buddha's original name was Siddhartha Gautama. The legend goes that Siddhartha's father was a King and that from the time he was born Siddhartha knew nothing but beauty and luxury as his father would allow nothing unpleasant to enter his sons sheltered world. When Siddhartha was in his twenties he began to feel discontentment with his life, it is said that the discontentment originated from a ride he took one day without his fathers knowledge. While on this ride he witnessed four realities he had never seen before. The first was an old man, riddled with the ravages of age. The second was a body racked with disease lying by the side of the road, the third ...

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