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The Legend of Buddha is a 2004 Indian English-language animated film directed by Shamboo Falke.[3] The film tells the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama, who leaves his kingdom to become the spiritual leader, Buddha.[4] The film was submitted for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 77th Academy Awards but was not nominated.[5][6]
Mahamaya has a dream where a white elephant visits her and she miraculously becomes pregnant. An astrologer tells Suddhodana and Mahamaya that they will have a son. Mahamaya gives birth to the baby boy in the garden under a tree. The astrologer says the boy will be a different leader who will save mankind. Suddhodana says he would rather the child rule the kingdom and promises to provide him a life of luxury. The boy is named Siddhartha.
Asita bursts into tears upon seeing baby Siddhartha, saying he will save humankind. He also predicts that Mahamaya will die soon. Mahamaya dies in her sleep, and Siddhartha grows up having a sheltered life of a prince. Suddhodana sends Siddhartha to Vishwamitra to prepare him for eventually becoming king. When Vishwamitra begins teaching Siddhartha, he is surprised that he already knows how to recite scriptures and is skilled in counting and arithmetic, as well. He bows down to Siddhartha in reverence.
Once, Siddhartha's friend shoots his arrow at a swan, and Siddhartha says they must nurse it back to health and let it back into the sky. Asita says the bird belongs to Siddhartha because he had mercy and protected it. On a stroll around the countryside with his father, Siddhartha is initially mesmerized by the beauty of nature. Then, he also sees pain in nature, such as several animals being preyed upon by others, and hunters killing animals. He becomes sad at this sight of power and exploitation.
As Siddhartha grows up, he continues to think about the suffering. Suddhodana does not understand why Siddhartha is not happy even though he has all the luxuries of a prince. Suddhodana arranges a festival to find Siddhartha a suitable woman. Siddhartha chooses Yashodhara, the daughter of King Suprabuddha. Siddhartha wins the warrior competition, proving himself worthy of Yashodhara's hand in marriage. They get married in an extravagant ceremony. Suddhodana tells Yashodhara that no mention of death, pain, or sickness should be made to Siddhartha to keep him happy. At night, Siddhartha has strange dreams about a larger purpose. In the morning, Siddhartha asks his maid what lies beyond the palace gates. He resolves to journey into the city to experience the world beyond his palace for the first time. Suddhodana orders that Siddhartha only see good in his visit so weak populations like the blind and elderly are ordered locked in their homes for the day. Siddhartha is flattered to see so many happy people under his rule until he sees an old man and someone explains to him that everyone becomes old and dies eventually. He becomes disturbed upon learning this reality of life.
Siddhartha realizes that happiness and comfort are temporary. That night, Suddhodana has a dream about Siddhartha's future role. Siddhartha asks Suddhodana to stop sheltering him and the next day goes back into the city disguised as a common man. He witnesses a sick man die and is shocked to learn that everyone experiences illness and eventually dies. He sees funerals and realizes that life is only temporary. During the visit, a servant tells Siddhartha that he's had a baby boy. Siddhartha tells the servant to name the boy Rahula, which stands for snake or a rope that ties him back. Siddhartha decides to give up his comforts in his life for the happiness of mankind. He quietly leaves the palace on Kanthaka in the middle of the night. At the gate, he is stopped by Mara, who tries to tempt him, but Siddhartha is no longer bound by desire. Halfway through his journey, Siddhartha leaves Kanthaka behind in his goal to renounce everything. Siddhartha meets some ascetics, who follow him as he meditates under a tree. He meditates until he reaches the brink of death.
A woman named Sujata offers Buddha some milk upon seeing him emaciated. He realizes that he needs to maintain a healthy mind and that he needs to find The Middle Path, a balance between asceticism and indulgence. The ascetics who had followed him leave him, upset that he gave up his renunciation. Mara appears again to try and prevent Siddhartha from spreading his knowledge to mankind, but he fails. Siddhartha reveals the Eightfold Path as the way to Nirvana. The ascetics come back and ask to be his disciples. Now known as Buddha, he travels across the country to spread his knowledge about enlightenment. He stops a king's sacrifice of 100 lambs, teaching him to protect all life. He advises the king to ban all slaughter in his kingdom. Buddha meets a human flesh-eating monster, but teaches him that harming others does not bring peace of mind.
Buddha visits the palace and realizes that the bonds tying him too Yashodhara and Rahula are too strong. He shares his knowledge with Suddhodana, Yashodhara, and Rahula. He tells Yashodhara he must return to seek truth. He preached about compassion and good deeds, founding the Buddhist religion.
Siddhartha Gautama (better known as the Buddha, l. c. 563 - c. 483 BCE) was, according to legend, a Hindu prince who renounced his position and wealth to seek enlightenment as a spiritual ascetic, attained his goal and, in preaching his path to others, founded Buddhism in India in the 6th-5th centuries BCE.
The events of his life are largely legendary, but he is considered an actual historical figure and a younger contemporary of Mahavira (also known as Vardhamana, l. c. 599-527 BCE) who established the tenets of Jainism shortly before Siddhartha's time.
According to Buddhist texts, a prophecy was given at Siddhartha's birth that he would become either a powerful king or great spiritual leader. His father, fearing he would become the latter if he were exposed to the suffering of the world, protected him from seeing or experiencing anything unpleasant or upsetting for the first 29 years of his life. One day (or over the course of a few) he slipped through his father's defenses and saw what Buddhists refer to as the Four Signs:
On a theological level, people began to question the entire construct of Hinduism. Hinduism taught that there was a supreme being, Brahman, who had not only created the universe but was the universe itself. Brahman had established the divine order, maintained this order, and had delivered the Vedas to enable human beings to participate in this order with understanding and clarity.
It was understood that the human soul was immortal and that the goal of life was to perform one's karma (action) in accordance with one's dharma (duty) in order to break free from the cycle of rebirth and death (samsara) and attain union with the oversoul (atman). It was also understood that the soul would be incarnated in physical bodies multiple times, over and over, until one finally attained this liberation.
The Hindu priests of the time defended the faith, which included the caste system, as part of the divine order but, as new ideas began to circulate, more people questioned whether that order was divine at all when all it seemed to offer was endless rounds of suffering. Scholar John M. Koller comments:
From a religious perspective, new ways of faith and practice challenged the established Vedic religion. The main concern dominating religious thought and practice at the time of the Buddha was the problem of suffering and death. Fear of death was an especially acute problem, because death was seen as an unending series of deaths and rebirths. Although the Buddha's solution to the problem was unique, most religious seekers at this time were engaged in the search for a way to obtain freedom from suffering and repeated death. (46)
Siddhartha Gautama grew up in this time of transition and reform but, according to the famous Buddhist legend concerning his youth, would not have been aware of any of it. When he was born, it was prophesied that he would become a great king or spiritual leader and his father, hoping for the former, hid his son away from anything that might be distressing. Siddhartha's mother died within a week of his birth, but he had no awareness of this, and his father did not want him to experience anything else as he grew which might inspire him to adopt a spiritual path.
Siddhartha knew that his father would never allow him to follow this path and, further, he had a wife and son he was responsible for who would also try to prevent him. At the same time, though, the thought of accepting a life he knew he would ultimately lose and suffer for was unbearable. One night, after looking at all of the precious objects he was attached to and his sleeping wife and son, he walked out of the palace, left his fine clothes, put on the robes of an ascetic, and departed for the woods. In some versions of the story, he is assisted by supernatural means while, in others, he simply leaves.
Criticism of this story often includes the objection that Siddhartha could not possibly have gone 29 years without ever becoming sick, seeing an older person, or being aware of death, but this is explained by scholars in two ways:
Most likely the truth of the legend of the four signs is symbolic rather than literal. In the first place, they may symbolize existential crises in Siddhartha's life occasioned by experiences with sickness, old age, death, and renunciation. More important, these four signs symbolize his coming to a deep and profound understanding of the true reality of sickness, old age, death, and contentment and his conviction that peace and contentment are possible despite the fact that everyone experiences old age, sickness, and death. (49)
The story may or may not be true, but it hardly matters because it has come to be accepted as truth. It appears first in full in the Lalitavistara Sutra (c. 3rd century CE) and, before that, may have undergone extensive revision via oral tradition. The symbolic meaning seems obvious and the claim it was written to enhance the standing of Buddhist thought, which had to contend with the established faiths of Hinduism and Jainism for adherents, also seems probable.
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