The teachings of the historical Buddha form the basis of Buddhist worldview and practice. Buddha also knows that Siddartha Gautama was born in 624 BC, as a royal prince in a city called Lumbini, located in northern India, but now part of Nepal. His parents named him Siddartha because there were remarkable predictions about his future. At the age of twenty-nine, Siddartha Gautama abandoned the indulgence of his royal life. He wandered into the world in search of understanding of life. When he met an old man, a sick man, a deceased man and a monk. Gautama certainly believed that suffering was the end of all existence. He denied his title as a prince and decided to become a monk, stripping himself of his material possessions in the hope of understanding the truth of the world. The consummation of his exploration occurred while he meditated under a Bodhi tree, where he was finally able to understand how to be liberated and free from all suffering and ultimately achieve salvation. Furthermore, as a result of this discovery, Siddartha came to be known as Buddha, which means “The Enlightened One”. Throughout his travels in India, the Buddha spent the rest of his life teaching others what he had learned and understood. Furthermore, as the author states: “The Buddha taught about earthly suffering and its healing. Many religions offer comforting supernatural solutions to the difficulties of earthly life. Early Buddhism was quite different: it held that liberation from suffering depended on our own efforts. The Buddha taught that by understanding how we create suffering, we can become free. (Fisher, 2014, P.137) Gautama delivers his first sermon at Sarnath, which is the sacred H...... middle of paper ......th moment of his death, Disciples of Siddartha Guatama, “Buddha » established communities of monks in the northern region of India. Also under the reign of Asoka the Great, an Indian emperor of the Maurya dynasty, and his encouragement helped spread Buddhism throughout southern India and Sri Lanka. Eventually, Buddhism largely declined in India, but later returned in the 20th century as a means of overcoming caste divides, which initially made life difficult for the "untouchables". Buddhism eventually spread around the world, to countries like England, Switzerland, Nepal, Mongolia, Singapore, Australia, Vietnam, Japan, and the United States. As a result, Buddhism is so important today and its perceptions, as in the 6th century BCE, when the one who became Shakyamuni Buddha gave up a life of luxury to save all enlightened beings from affliction..