The historical Buddha or Shakyamuni Buddha, who was the founder of Buddhism, was born as Prince Siddhartha in 563 B.C., attained enlightenment at the age of thirty five, and died at the age of eighty.Almost all objects worshiped by Theravada Buddhists are literally "reminders of the Buddha" (Buddhacaitya). The first and most important class of objects forveneration is the physical relics of Buddha.