The region that lay among the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains in the farthest northern regions of India in Nepal is where the life of “the Buddha”, Siddhartha Gautama begins. There are thousands of legends and stories that are not certain to be true, and many of sayings can be attributed to him, but what we do know is the basic historical outlines of his life.

In Nepal there was a small country that was ruled by a clan called the Shakyas. The head of the clan was named Shuddodana Gautama, and his wife’s name was Mahamaya. Mayhamaya was expecting her first born, when she had the strangest dream. The dream was a baby elephant had come and blessed her with his trunk, not knowing the meaning; Mayhamaya did not ponder her thoughts. When the time came to give birth, she was to go to her father’s kingdom, which was custom in the day. On the way her pains began and she lay under the shade of a large tree and the process they say was painless. It is said that the child was born fully awake and could speak. He told his mother that he was sent to free all mankind from suffering. She named him Siddhartha, which means “he who has attained his goals.” Sadly Mahamaya di

A few years later he reappears with a number of followers, he and his followers devote their lives to the “Middle Way.” This lifestyle is midway between a completely ascetic life and one that is world devoted. His teachings lasted for several decades and he perished at a very old age, it has been said somewhere in his late eighties.

2.) All suffering is caused by human desire, particularly the desire that impermanent things be permanent.

Siddhartha grew up to be a strong and handsome young man. As a prince of the warrior caste, he was well trained in the art of war. He was married at the age of sixteen to a princess Yashodhara.

3.) Human suffering can be ended by ending human desire.

Following his death only a small group of followers continued in his footsteps. Calling themselves bhikkus or “disciples,” they wandered the countryside in yellow ropes. For almost two hundred years, these followers of Buddha were a small, relatively inconsequential group among an infinite variety of Hindu sects. But when the great Mauryan emperor, Asoka, converted to Buddhism in the third century BC, the young inconsequential religion spread like wildfire throughout India and beyond. Most significantly the religion was carried across the Indian Ocean to Sri Lanka.

This conversation changed his life overnight. He concluded that it is not to live a completely worldly life, nor to live a life in complete denial of the physical body, but to be in the “MIDDLE WAY”. The conclusion lead to this thought. The way out of suffering was through concentration, and since the

Some topics in this essay:
Mahaprajapati Mahamaya’s, Siddhartha Buddha, Mahamaya Mayhamaya, Noble Path”, Noble Truths”, Siddhartha Gautama, Noble Path, NIRVANA Nirvana, Sadly Mahamaya, Lanka Buddha, siddhartha gautama, human suffering, ascetic life, one’s self, human desire, “middle way”,