1 Decides to be reborn while residing in Tushita Heaven
2 Conception: Like a great white elephant descends to earth and enters the womb of Mayadevi
3 Takes Birth at Lumbini Grove
4 Takes his first Steps
5 Prediction of two possible destinies by the astrologer Asita
6 Becomes proficient in princely arts and games and so forth
7 Assumes retinue and a queen, lives the worldly life
8 Encounters an old person, a sick person, a corpse, and meets an ascetic
9 Leaves the palace
10 Renounces the world, i.e., cuts his hair and becomes an ascetic
11 Practices austerities for six years
12 Sits under the Bodhi Tree and is victorious over Mara
13 Awakens to perfect enlightenment
14 Teaches his first disciples, or Turns the Wheel of Dharma, for the first time at Sarnath Deer Park
15 Turns the Wheel of Dharma for the second time at Vulture Peak near Rajgir to an assembly of bodhisattvas, gods, and other beings
16 Prevents division of his followers (sangha); tames a mad elephant at Rajgir
17 Descends from the Heaven of the Thirty-three Gods after teaching his mother
18 Miracles at Shravasti and conversion of nonbelievers
19 Accepts a gift of honey from a monkey at Vaishali and predicts his own impending death
20 Leaves his physical body
21 Manifests signs of great passing during cremation, with wondrous lights and flowers falling from the sky; leaves relics