Search For Buddha's Footprints

Introduction
Siddhartha Gautama who became saint, later known as Buddha which means 'enlightened one' or 'awakened one'. Buddhism was founded on the teachings of Buddha. He was born in Nepal, India and lived his 29 years of his life in Kapilavastu district of Nepal. After escaping from his palace he saw an old diseased man and many corpses on his way out. Seeing this he started thinking to fulfil subjects of his life and to understand why humans are like this? While meditating for seven continuous days under a Peepal tree later known as "Bodhi Tree", he attained enlightenment. After that, with all his other companions travelled the whole world including Sri Lanka to spread his teachings to the people and to awake them from several myths of life. The places where he went and spread his teachings were the proof by his footprints on those places. He also left his footprints to many places so that people …show more content…
The culture of Sri Lanka is very much influenced by the heritage of Theravada Buddhism passed on from India by the great king Ashoka. Sri Lankan culture is internationally associated with cricket, a cuisine. Many forms of Sri Lankan art and crafts are taken inspirations from Buddhist culture. The most impressive and popular monuments in Sri Lanka are great stupas, some of them are very gigantic size statues of Buddha. There are many stupas and monuments such as in Anuradhapura, Polonnaruva and many other sites which are very much inspired from Buddhist culture. The rock at Sigiriya placed with the series of exquisitely painted apsarases showering flowers, their torsos emerging from clouds. The most attractive full part of Sri Lankan art is Jataka Tales which are as old as from 300 B.C. Originally these Tales were written in Pali language. They are important part of Buddhist literature. Jataka tales mainly are about previous lives of Gautama