Buddha

Buddha was born in Lumbini Nepal. This Indian drama production is a good summary of the Buddha's life from birth to parinirvana. Few months ago, I could watch the drama with Chinese subtitles. Sadly, the videos are blocked by youtube on copyright grounds in Singapore and I'm can't watch it.

Quotes from Buddha

Happiness and sorrows are the two sides of the same coin. 

When the desire for happiness comes to an end, the fear of sorrow comes to an end.

I've found out that happiness and sorrow, days and. night, good and bad are game of mind and attachment. But there's a centre point in them. And that's the source of life. And it is in the consciousness of every human being, not anywhere outside.

Awakening (from Wikipedia) 

According to the early Buddhist texts,^[115] after realising that meditative dhyana was the right path to awakening, but that extreme asceticism didn't work, Gautama discovered what Buddhists know as being, the Middle Way^[115]—a path of moderation away from the extremes of self-indulgence and self-mortification, or the Noble Eightfold Path, as described in the Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, which is regarded as the first discourse of the Buddha.^[115] In a famous incident, after becoming starved and weakened, he is said to have accepted milk and rice pudding from a village girl named Sujata.^[116] Such was his emaciated appearance that she wrongly believed him to be a spirit that had granted her a wish.^[116]

Following this incident, Gautama was famously seated under a pipal tree—now known as the Bodhi tree—in Bodh Gaya, India, when he vowed never to arise until he had found the truth.^[117] Kaundinya and four other companions, believing that he had abandoned his search and become undisciplined, ceased to stay with him, and went to somewhere else. After a reputed 49 days of meditation, at the age of 35, he is said to have attained Enlightenment,^[117][118] and became known as the Buddha or "Awakened One" ("Buddha" is also sometimes translated as "The Enlightened One").

According to some sutras of the Pali canon, at the time of his awakening he realised complete insight into the Four Noble Truths, thereby attaining liberation from samsara, the endless cycle of rebirth, suffering and dying again.^{[119][120][121]} According to scholars, this story of the awakening and the stress on "liberating insight" is a later development in the Buddhist tradition, where the Buddha may have regarded the practice of dhyana as leading to nirvana and moksha.^{[122][123][119][note 13]}

Nirvana is the extinguishing of the "fires" of desire, hatred, and ignorance, that keep the cycle of suffering and rebirth going.^[124] Nirvana is also regarded as the "end of the world", in that no personal identity or boundaries of the mind remain.^{[citation needed]} In such a state, a being is said to possess the Ten Characteristics, belonging to every Buddha.^{[citation needed]}

According to a story in the Āyācana Sutta (Samyutta Nikaya VI.1)—a scripture found in the Pāliand other canons—immediately after his awakening, the Buddha debated whether or not he should teach the Dharma to others. He was concerned that humans were so overpowered by ignorance, greed and hatred that they could never recognise the path, which is subtle, deep and hard to grasp. However, in the story, Brahmā Sahampati convinced him, arguing that at least some will understand it. The Buddha relented, and agreed to teach.