3233 AM · 528 BCE · world history
The Buddha and the Birth of Buddhism
Prince Siddhartha Gautama leaves his palace and finds a path out of suffering.
A prince of the Shakya clan, raised in luxury, sees old age, sickness and death for the first time and leaves to find an answer. After six years of asceticism he rejects both indulgence and self-torture, and under a tree at Bodh Gaya formulates the middle way: four truths about suffering and an eightfold path.