Buddha became enlightened under a banyon tree in India. It is believed that there have been 4 enlightened Buddha’s and they are waiting for Buddha the 5th. Altitude of pagoda is 100 meters. The architecture was renovated in the 18th century. Seven times the height of the pagoda has been raised. In Sri Lanka Dagoba means place of Buddha relics. A Stupa is solid and a temple is hollow for meditation with Buddha images inside. Gautama Buddha was born in 624BC and lived to be 80, dying 544BC. There were many monks at the pagoda and then we saw a hermit who practices Buddhism and alchemy alone. There are 2 ways of Buddhism, Thedavada practiced in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Laos, Viet Nam, and India. Mahayana is practiced in the far east, China, Korea and Tibet. They have the same basic fundamentals.