India Original Green Buddhist Fine Art Painting, "Peaceful Siddhartha"

A lotus blossom — his favorite flower — rests on Buddha's shoulder while he meditates. Radiating sensation of peace, his beautiful features are portrayed in green; artist Sonu Chopra explains that the color symbolizes the lord's ageless beauty.

At the age of 29, Siddhartha Gautama left his wealthy family in pursuit of the truth. Six years later, he experienced the religious epiphanies that would become the basis of Buddhism — that a wholesome existence guided by proper understanding, contemplation, and concentration releases one from the painful cycle of life and death.