Siddhartha (Buddha) spent his youth in great luxury married and fathered a son. The scriptures relate that at the age of 29 wishing to see more of the world he left the palace grounds in his chariot. He saw on successive excursions an old man a sick man a corpse and a mendicant monk. From the first three of these sights he learned the inescapability of suffering and death and in the serenity of the monk he saw his destiny. Forsaking his wife Yashodhara and his son Rahula he secretly left the palace and became a wandering ascetic.

Each Buddha is made from solid resin and finished in a soft polished black.

Each item comes packaged individually in its own box.