Buddha's birth was also similarly miraculous. On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, Queen Maya roaming in Lumbini Garden. She stood under a sala (ashoka) tree to pick a blossom and then infant Buddha sprang from her side without causing pain or bloodshed to his mother. Immediately he took seven steps towards the north and announced in a loud voice that this was his final incarnation.

After the birth of young prince, a sage named Asita, predicted that the child would be a holy man, rather than a ruler as his father. Shuddhodana tried hard to prevent this and offered him a luxurious life in the royal palace. When he was sixteen, he was married to a beautiful princess Yasodhara and they had a son, named Rahula.

When he was twenty-ninth year, Prince Gautama or Siddhartha decided to leave the palace to view the flowers in bloom, but instead of that faced with the world's pain and misery. When he was fully aware of the sorrow outside the royal life of the palace, he tried to get a solutioon of that. He finaly decided to leave his palace and go to himalaya for meditation. He left his palace secretely and started fasting, subjecting his body to strict discipline and meditating in the lotus position. After six years, he came down from the mountains, bathed and sat under a pipal tree at Gaya and again started maditating for full enlightenment.

Finally at age 35, on a full moon night, he attained enlightenment. After that he went to Sarnath near Varanasi and gave the first sermon about Dharma or spiritual law. In his first teaching he expounded the basic doctrine of Four Noble Truths that suffering is universal and inevitable, the immediate cause of suffering is desire and its the true nature of reality there is a way to dispel by encouraging humanity and lastly it is Eightfold Path to get Moksha from life. The Eightfold Path are

1. Right View 2. Right Thought 3. Right Speech 4. Right Action 5. Right Livelihood 6. Right Effort 7. Right Mindfulness 8. Right Concentration.

After 45 years of teaching, at the age of 80 he entered into a deep trance and died peacefully in Kushinagara. This event is called the "Mahaparinirvana". His body burned for seven days and finally a divine flame came out. The remains were devidev into eight parts and sent to eight different places throughout the world where they became the subject of worship and later stupas or monasteries were built.