| Siddhartha Gautama preached and spread his ideas across India until his death at the age of 80. |
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| According to ancient writings and legends, the Buddha Gautama was born Siddhartha Gautama in what is now Nepal in the fifth or sixth century. |
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| This title was given to Siddhartha Gautama, who became enlightened and then taught others how to attain the state of enlightenment. |
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| This famous series of four events describes Siddhartha Gautama witnessing old age, sickness and death when he finally leaves the palace as a young man. |
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| The more conservative view, the Theravadin, emphasizes the down-to-earth, practical example of an exceptional man, Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. |
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| About 2,500 years ago, the Indian prince Siddhartha Gautama left his palace and of his riches behind to a search for the cause of human suffering. |
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| The genealogical tree of this spiritual lineage begins with the seven buddhas, consisting of six mythological Buddhas of previous eons as well as Siddhartha Gautama, or Shakyamuni, the historical Buddha of the current age. |
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| Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha himself, spoke an unknown northern Indian vernacular, but the oldest surviving Buddhist texts are in Pali, a related language that may have been a regional lingua franca. |
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| It is situated at Bodh Gaya, in the place where, according to tradition, Siddhartha Gautama attained illumination as he meditated beneath a fig tree and became Buddha. |
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| Like Siddhartha Gautama it will make of us what we are: a being sensitive to both happiness and pain for whom the truth isn't so hidden, is revealed by the simple desire to come as close to it as possible. |
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| Two and a half millennia ago, Siddhartha Gautama sought enlightenment. |
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