Since the origins of Buddhism until our days, the teachings have been transmitted in a direct way from teacher to disciple, form heart to heart.

In order to assure the continuity of a pure transmission it is necessary to keep a direct link with a live teacher.

Gotama Buddha

He was born in Kapilavatsu, (actual south Nepal) in the year 563 B.C. and he was called Sidharta. He belonged to the Shakya clan. He grew up in luxury and always showed an excellent health. His intelligence was privileged. At the age of 16 he married princess Yashodhara from whom his son Rahula was born. Despite his father efforts to disguise the reality of life, prince Sidharta discover the intrinsic suffering of life. At the age of 29 he decided to give up his surrounding luxury in order to find the answer to suffering. He established himself in a forest and studied meditation techniques and self control. Six years of tough mortification almost end with his life. He declined this path and retake meditation under the Boddhi tree in Gaya for 49 days. He had to resist the dashing attacks of Mara the devil deity, who fight the ascetic with hurricanes and earthquakes in which the devil daughters danced: desire, passion and pleasure. But Buddha didn't move. After he reached enlightenment he gave his first teaching in the Deer Park, to the five ascetics who were his partner in the search of truth. Since that day and for the next 45 years Buddha thought to every kind of men and women without distinction of casts or social classes. He rejected the philosophical tendencies to undertake problems without practical solutions. The Buddha found an assembly of monks and later of nuns. He died in Kusinagar in 483 B.C. at the age of 80, reaching Paranirvana or the "Great Enlightenment".