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Siddhartha Gautama was born in the 6th century B.C.E., the Axial Age of Confucius in China, Cyrus the Great in Persia and Pythagoras in Greece.[1] He was the son of a wealthy and powerful ruler of Lumbini, present-day Napal, India. As a Prince, Siddhartha was raised in an isolated existence of extreme luxury, protected from the harsh…