It is said that Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment after meditating under a peepal tree for 49 days. He sat alone under ...

Known for thought processes like the Eightfold Path, enlightenment, and Nirvana, Buddha suggested that the purpose of life is ...

The life span of Gautama, who is called Buddha or “Enlightened One,” is usually reckoned as about 560–480 B.C. According to traditional accounts, at the age of 29 Gautama saw in succession a ...

Wesak celebrates the Buddha's birthday and, for some Buddhists, also marks his enlightenment and death. It is also called Buddha Day. In 2024 Wesak falls on 23 May. Parinirvana Day remembers the ...

Even the term ‘Buddha’ means sambuddha, enlightened one. Siddhartha Gautama never called himself the Buddha. There’s an episode in one of the Pitakas– the word ‘pitaka’ is a noun in ...

Buddha Purnima or Buddha's birthday is observed on the Tithi of Shukla Paksha Purnima (full moon day) in the month of Vaisakh of the traditional Hindu calendar that falls during the months of ...

The court astrologers predicted that Siddharta would become either a chakravartin (universal monarch) or a buddha (enlightened one). Not wishing to lose his son and heir—and, at that ...

In many parts of Asia, the sacred day marks not just the birth, but also the enlightenment and passing of the Buddha. In most Asian cultures and the diaspora, Buddhists go to their local temples ...

From the very tree where an apple once inspired Isaac Newton to formulate his theory of gravity to the Bodhi tree under which Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment, these iconic trees continue to ...