| 1. Gautam Buddha was the founder of Buddhism. |
| 2. Real name of Gautam Buddha was Siddhartha. He was also known as Sakyamuni or Tathagata. |
| 3. Gautam Buddha was born in 563 BC at Lumbini (near Kapilvastu) in Nepal. |
| 4. Gautam Buddha belonged to the Sakya clan of Kshatriya. |
| 5. His father Suddhodana was the king of Kapilvastu. |
| 6. His mother name was Mahamaya. She belong to Kosala dynasty. She died after 7 days of his birth. |
| 7. Gautam Buddha was married to Yasodhara at the age of 16. He had a son named Rahula. |
| 8. Gautam Buddha after seeing the “Four Passing Sights”: an old crippled man, a sick man, a dead man, and a holy man with no home, decided to become a holy man and look for the answer to the problem of birth, old age, sickness and death. |
| 9. Gautam Buddha attained enlightenment at Bodh Gaya in Magadha (Bihar). |
| 10. Gautam Buddha delivered his first sermon at Sarnath, Uttar Pradesh. His first sermon is called Dharmachakrapravartan or Turning of the Wheel of Law. |
| 11. Gautam Buddha preached most of his sermons at Sravasti. |
| 12. Gautam Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana in 483 B.C. at Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh at the age of 80. |
| 13. Five disciples of Gautam Buddha were Upali, Asvajit, Mogallana, Ananda and Sariputra. |
