Around 2500 years ago a prince named Siddhartha left his palace and his future as a king to live as an ascetic in search for the truths of life. One day he came to the place now known as Bodhgaya. Here he would spend the following seven years meditating under a tree until one day he came to the realization of life's truths. He had now become a Buddha, an enlightened one.

With his realization he laid ground for the religion in our time known as Buddhism with around 500 million followers the world over, mostly in Asia. Today Bodhgaya is the most important pilgrimage site for Buddhists.

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