After sitting for 49 days in meditation, as dawn broke ... Brahma appeared to Gautam Buddha and urged him to teach the people what he had realised. Click here to read the life story of Gautam ...

India is the birthplace of Buddhism. This is the birthplace of Lord Gautam Buddha, as well as Lord Buddha attained enlightenment and preached here. Temples and monasteries related to all these events ...

Gautam Buddha is believed to have achieved enlightenment ... an end to struggles and achieved enlightenment after 49 days of meditation under the Bodhi (banyan) tree in Bodh Gaya.