September
03
/ 2023
Relics are important in Buddhism in that they provide tangible links to enlightened figures and their teachings. When the Buddha's finger bone was discovered in an ancient Chinese monastery, worshippers from all over the world gathered to pay their respects and experience the profound presence of this ancient relic. What was the extraordinary significance behind a single bone that sparked such devotion? Who was the man most commonly referred to as the Buddha? Siddhartha Gautama was born in 563 BC into nobility as an Indian prince of the Sakya kingdom. His family's kingdom lay on the border of what are now known as Nepal and India. At age twenty-nine, he rejected his privileged life and embarked on a spiritual journey
