Gotama Buddha Life and His Teaching
Vipassana Research Institute
THE LIFE OF THE BUDDHA
Nineth century B.C. was an important era in history. This was the period when a great benefactor of mankind was born and became renowned as Gotama the Buddha. The Buddha rediscovered the path of Dhamma leading to the eradication of universal suffering. With great compassion he spent forty-five years showing the path and this helped millions of people to come out of their misery. Even today this path is helping humanity, and will continue to do so provided the teachings
and practice are maintained in their pristine purity.
History tells us that in 624 B.C. King Suddhodana ruled the kingdom of S±kya. He had two queens: the chief queen was Mahamaya and the younger queen was Mahapajapati Gotami, the sister of Mahamaya. When Mahamaya was travelling from Kapilavatthu, the capital, to Devadaha, her parents’ home, to have her first child, she gave birth along the way to a son under a large sala tree in the Lumbini grove on the full moon day of Vesakha (month of April-May). An old sage, Asita, visited the palace, and on seeing the marks of greatness (mahapurisa lakkhaka) in the child, first expressed joy and then shed tears.
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