Background on Buddha
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- Created on: 10-04-13 18:37
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- Background on Buddha
- "work out your own salvation with diligence"
- "life is characterised by suffering"
- Buddhas teachings are described as a "raft"
- Teachings carry people to safety, peace and nirvana
- (People do not become attached to raft but use it as means to cross a stretch of water)
- Teachings carry people to safety, peace and nirvana
- Buddha taught 'The Middle Way'
- Buddha found the middle way and as a result achieved enlightenment.
- avoided the extremes of ascetic austerity and the indulgent life of luxury
- Buddha experienced the Four Sights prior to enlightenment
- Old man
- Poor man
- Sick man
- Dead man
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