Buddhism

BuddhaBuddhism started with the Buddha. The word 'Buddha' is a title and not a name. It means 'one who is awake' in the sense of having 'woken up to reality'. It was about 2,500 years ago that the first Buddha, the prince Siddhartha Gautama, was born in Nepal. Siddhartha was born into the royal family of a small kingdom on the Indian-Nepalese border. When he was only a baby, a shaman came and...