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Who became known as the Buddha, or. "enlightened one" who spread Buddhism?

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Siddhartha Gautama

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The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama sometime between the 6th and 4th century BCE to Queen Mahamaya and King Suddhodana in Northern India or Nepal. The story of his birth is magical: supposedly, his mother gave painless birth to him in a grove of trees standing up by the light of a full moon. When he was born, his mother was visited by a soothsayer who declared that the young prince would become a 'renouncer,' someone who transcends the earthly life.

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