釋伽牟尼佛一生簡歷
- 出生於二千郎吨T十九年前的北印度。 - 父親淨飯，母親摩耶夫人。 - 年輕時，曾遊四門，見生，老，病，死，悟世間苦空，無常。因此決意出家學道， 尋求解脫的方法。 - 於雪山修六年苦行，參訪名師修行的方法，但始終不能找到解脫的辦法，後端坐菩 提樹下，於十二月初八，夜睹明星悟道，時年三十五歲。 - 成佛後，嘆云﹕奇哉！奇哉！大地眾生皆有如來智慧德相，但因妄想，執著而不能 證得。 - 於鹿野院苑時，為比丘說四諦法。 繼而說法四十九年，壇經三百餘會。 - 八十歲入涅槃。
For six years the ascetic Gotama wandered about the valley of the Ganges, meeting famous religious teachers, studying and following their systems and methods, and submitting himself to rigorous ascetic practices. They did not satisfy him. So he abandoned all traditional religions and their methods and went his own way. It was thus that one evening, seated under a tree (since then known as the Bodhi-tree, 'the Tree of Wisdom'), on the bank of the river Neranjara at Buddha-Gaya, at the age of 35, Gotama attained Enlightenment, after which he was known as the Buddha, 'The Enlightened One.'
After his Enlightenment, Gotama the Buddha announced that all sentient beings has the potentiality to become a Buddha, but are obstructed by illusion and ignorance. Then he delivered his first sermon on the Four Noble Truths to a group of five ascetics, his old colleagues, in the Deer Park at Isipatana. Since then , he has expounded the Dharma, various ways to cultivate in order to attain Buddhahood, for a duration of 49 years. He recognized no differences of nationality, gender and social groupings, and the way he preached was open to all men and women who were ready to understand and to follow it. At the age of 80, he attained nirvana.
