only child, Rahula, he left his kingdom and became an ascetic
in search of this solution.
For six years the ascetic Gotama wandered about the valley of
the Ganges, meeting famous religious teachers, studying and
following their systems and methods, and submitting himself to
rigorous ascetic practices. They did not satisfy him. So he
abandoned all traditional religions and their methods and went
his o w n way. It was thus that one evening, seated under a tree
(since then known as the Bodhi- or Bo-tree, 'the Tree of Wisdom'),
on the bank of the river Neranjara at Buddha-Gaya (near Gaya
in modern Bihar), at the age of 35, Gotama attained Enlightenment,
after which he was known as the Buddha, ' T h e Enlightened One'.
After his Enlightenment, Gotama the Buddha delivered his
first sermon to a group of five ascetics, his old colleagues, in the
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