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With one exception, he was a prince trained to be one of the best warriors of his time, though it’s hard to tell how successful that really was. He was well trained, and well spoiled, because Gautama Buddha’s father was told when Gautama was born that he would either grow up to be the greatest warrior ever to live, or he would grow up to be a holy man. His father did everything to make sure all suffering was hidden from Gautama in order encourage the warrior path.
One day he saw one of his father’s servants working the land, an older man who was beginning to lose his own strength, and when Gautama saw this, he asked the man what was going on. From there he learned he’d lived an extremely well blessed life because of his father’s intervention, and he decided to meditate on this, leading him to the ideals he espoused, and founding one of the world’s most well known religions.
So, kind of a warrior religion? And after all, the Shaolin are actually a sect of Buddhism, and they’ve spent well over a thousand years being among the region’s most sought after mercenaries, though now they mostly make money by training people to become actors in Hong Kong action movies.