T o M a n i
Sabbadanam dhammadanam jinati
'The gift of Truth excels all other gifts'
The Buddha
T h e Buddha, whose personal name was Siddhattha (Siddhartha in
Sanskrit), and family name Gotama (Skt. Gautama), lived in
North India in the 6th century B.C. His father, Suddhodana, was
the ruler of the kingdom of the Sakyas (in modern Nepal). His
mother was queen Maya. According to the custom of the time,
he was married quite young, at the age of sixteen, to a beautiful
and devoted young princess named Yasodhara. T h e young prince
lived in his palace with every luxury at his command. But all of a
sudden, confronted with the reality of life and the suffering of
mankind, he decided to find the solution—the way out of this
universal suffering. At the age of 29, soon after the birth of his
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