The five ascetics became his first five disciples. The Buddha taught continuously in the remaining 45 years of his life. He travelled around north-east India, teaching in a variety of dialects.

The journey of how Prince Siddharth Gautama became Buddha, The Enlightened One. The movie features spectacular animation technology to narrate the story of Buddha right from his childhood till the ...

Buddha’s birth and life Siddhartha was born in Lumbini ... In India and Nepal, sweet rice porridge is served on this day to recall the story of Sujata, a maiden who offered the Buddha a bowl ...

“The temple is about a hundred yards from Lord Buddha’s birthplace,” says Semage, explaining that the murals will tell the story of the Bodhisatva Siddhartha on his road to ... “We have tried to ...

A contemporary of the Buddha, Mahavira (meaning "Great Hero") Vardhamana established the central tenets of the Jain religion in India during the 6th century BCE. Accounts of Mahavira's life differ ...

Japanese art counts many illustrations of the life and death of Maya (“illusion”), the mother of the Buddha, which are very faithful to the Indian tradition. However, in one respect Japanese Buddhists ...

It is not the golden Buddha but the real gold Buddha. Thailand has many temples housing giant golden statues of Buddha but Wat Traimit houses a giant statue of Buddha made of pure gold. Although the ...

A confluence of music, dance, theatre in the opera titled The Life of Gautam Buddha, scripted and directed by theatre artistes Lushin Dubey and Bubbles Sabharwal, traced the life of Prince ...

To mark the recent reissue of FM3’s Buddha Machine, Steve Barker tells the story of its origins, a tale which takes in Chinese temples and ... as change in the city was happening so fast that much of ...