A wandering ascetic and religious teacher, Gautama Buddha gave rise to a new religion in the Indian subcontinent during the 5th century BCE. Buddhism focuses on the path of meditation and ...

528 BC). Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhartha Gautama, Shakyamuni, or the Buddha, was a sage on whose teachings Buddhism was founded. The word Buddha means awakened one or the enlightened one.

After 16 years, a public exposition of the Sacred Tooth Relic of Siddhartha Gautama Buddha – one of the most venerated objects of worship of Buddhists – is taking place. The exposition is on from ...

Plutarch mentions that Menander was honored because he was a Chakravartin. Long, long ago, prince Siddhartha Gautama, who later became the Buddha, meaning the “enlighted one”, was born in Lumbini in ...

With your mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death." Buddha propagates the idea of Nirvana; a place of perfect peace and happiness where a person’s desires and suffering ...

Siddhartha: To learn is to change. The path of enlightenment is in the middle way. It is the line between all opposite extremes. Siddhartha: [speaking to Mara] You are pure illusion, you do not exist.

A fact we know well is that the Jatakas are a body of Indian literature that mainly concerns the previous births of Gautama Buddha, in both human and animal form. Jataka stories were depicted on ...

On the following day, Buddha Purnima coincides with Chitra Purnima. Buddha Purnima honors the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. Kurma Jayanti, dedicated to the Kurma avatar of Lord ...

A Buddhist temple marking the location where Siddhartha Gautama attained enlightenment, featuring a towering pyramidal spire and sacred Bodhi tree.