Monday, Jan. 1st, 2001 Who was Buddha?
Buddha was a young prince, Siddharta Gautama, who lived about 2,500 years ago in the region of the frontier between India and Nepal. After he had recognized, how deeply people suffer from old age, illness and death, he turned away from the luxury life at the royal court and started his spiritual search. For six years, he studied with spiritual teachers of the high Indian culture of his days and also practiced strict asceticism.