1. I am not a historian, if
you find anything
inapropriate,please
accept my apology .
 om Hemrajani

2. In almost half of the world

3. Buddhism is a very wide subject, it can not
be contained in few slides or words.
I am presenting few important slides &
selected words or historical facts before
you.
Otherwise a full sized book of 1000 pages
will fall short.

4. He was born as a royal prince in 624 B.C.
in a place called lumbini, which was
originally a part of north India, now in
Nepal.
His original name is Siddhartha.
He left palace at the age of Twenty nine
abandoning the luxuries of palace and the
affection of a wife and young son.

7. His aim was to help living beings find
lasting peace or nirvana.
Every living being has basic wish to be
happy and to avoid suffering
Buddha meaning “ awakened one”.

9.  He sat there for many
days in deep
concentration to clear
his mind of all
distractions, then in
mindfulness meditation,
opening himself up to
the truth, he began to
recall his previous lives,
and to see everything,
that was going on in the
entire universe.

11. He preached his first five disciples here in Sarnath

12. The four noble truths.
Life is suffering.
Suffering due to attachments.
Attachment can be overcome.
There is a path for accomplishing them.
8 fold paths are
dukha,anitya,anatman,trisha,
dvesha,avidya,nirvana & dharma.

17. Dharamshala

18. We Hindus were liberal Jainism
 That is why roots of
other religions were
in India.
 Buddhism.
 Jainism.
 Sikhism.
 Perhaps Islam also,
if I remember –
well.
 Buddhism & Jainism
were started almost at
same time.
 Buddhism spread to
many countries ,almost
half of the world as
China, Japan,
Burma,Lanka & Far
east.
 Jainism restricted to
India because of strict
rules
Spread of religions

19. Emperor Ashoka
 One of the most
significant events in the
history of Buddhism is
emperor ashok maurya,
in his time thousands
rock pillars were erected,
bearing the word Buddha
around 250 B.C.

20. In sri Lanka
 Emperor Ashoka sent
one of his son, and one of
his daughters, a monk
and a nun to sri lanka
(Ceylon) around 240 B.C.
 The king of sri lanka
Devanampiyatissa,
welcomed them, and was
converted.

24.  Buddhism gained
foothold in the
Philippines with rise of
the Indianized
Buddhist Srivijay
empire centered in
Sumatra in the 7th
century.

26.  Buddhism has got roots
in America as well.
 Europe also has got
presence of Buddhism.
 There are innumerable
countries like Australia
& Newzeland too.
 It will be difficult to
count all.

34.  When I joined the course in
the first week of June, I
feared even touching the
computer mouse
 Today what you see is a
presentation on Lord
Buddha, made possible by
Vidyanidhi Info Tech
Academy, in Two & half
months time.
 A big thank you to Ms
Vaishali Shah & Ms Hema
Mehta
 Both have shown
tremendous patience
towards all of us
 My thanks to Ms Savita
Thakkur also, who has
introduced this program for
senior citizens like us