H.G. Wells (1866–1946). A Short History of the World. 1922 BUT now we must go back three centuries in our story to tell of a great teacher who came near to revolutionizing the religious thought and ...

Over 2,500 years ago, an Indian prince named Siddhartha Gautama achieved spiritual enlightenment and became the Buddha, the founder of the world's fourth-largest religion.

Siddhartha Gautama, best known as the Buddha (the enlightened one), lived some 500 years before Jesus Christ. Born into royalty, the life of the young prince and his subsequent enlightenment set the ...

This school stresses the historical figure of Gautama Buddha, and the centrality of the monk's life-style and practice (meditation). The ravada monks hold that the Buddha taught a doctrine of anatta ...

Birth. According to tradition, Siddharta Gautama, later known as the Buddha, was born in Lumbini, in what is now southern Nepal, to King Shuddhodana of the Shakya clan.

Gautama Buddha's quote, "The mind is everything. What you think, you become," offers deep insight into the power of the human mind and our thoughts' ability to shape our reality. This idea, while ...

Buddha Purnima, or Vesak, celebrates Gautama Buddha's birth, enlightenment, and death. Originating in ancient India, Siddhartha Gautama renounced royalty to become Buddha. His teachings of Dharma ...

A Review of Rajendra Alwis’s book ‘Siddhartha Gauthama’ Gautama Buddha has been such a towering figure for over twenty six centuries of human history that there is no shortage of authors attempting to ...