Buddha Coloring Page

Siddhartha Gautama was born into a royal family in what is now Nepal. He grew up in a palace, but when he saw how much suffering there was in the world, he left home to look for answers. After years of searching, he sat under a fig tree at Bodh Gaya in India until he understood them.

That tree is now called the Bodhi tree, and “Buddha” means “the awakened one.” He spent the rest of his life teaching, and Buddhism is still followed by hundreds of millions of people. Historians aren’t certain about his exact dates.