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Mimeo photos versus motif4/18/2023 Īccording to early texts such as the Pali Ariyapariyesanā-sutta ("The discourse on the noble quest", MN 26) and its Chinese parallel at MĀ 204, Gautama was moved by the suffering ( dukkha) of life and death, and its endless repetition due to rebirth. Some of the stories about Buddha, his life, his teachings, and claims about the society he grew up in may have been invented and interpolated at a later time into the Buddhist texts. Scholars such as Richard Gombrich consider this a dubious claim because a combination of evidence suggests he was born in the Shakya community, which was governed by a small oligarchy or republic-like council where there were no ranks but where seniority mattered instead. Some hagiographic legends state that his father was a king named Suddhodana, his mother was Queen Maya. The evidence of the early texts suggests that Siddhartha Gautama was born in Lumbini, present-day Nepal and grew up in Kapilavastu, a town in the Ganges Plain, near the modern Nepal–India border, and that he spent his life in what is now modern Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. His social background and life details are difficult to prove, and the precise dates are uncertain. The details of Buddha's life are mentioned in many Early Buddhist Texts but are inconsistent. Early texts have the Buddha's family name as "Gautama" (Pali: Gotama).
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