The buddha

  • 563 BCE

    Birth

    Lumbini
  • 547 BCE

    Marriage

    At age 16
  • 534 BCE

    The four sights

    the four adventures-in the country
    -Elderly man
    -A sick man
    -A corpse
    -A smiling Ascetic
  • 534 BCE

    Renunciation

  • 528 BCE

    Enlightenment

    Bodh Gaya
  • 525 BCE

    First sermon

    Sarnath
    there he laid out the eightfold path
  • 483 BCE

    Death

  • 525

    Discovery of the middle way