Buddhism Theme 1 Key Quotes

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Eduqas/WJEC Guidance for Teaching documents

‘Whilst there is some historical evidence for the existence of the Buddha, the narrative, which itself is compiled from fragments found in numerous texts, is a meaningful rather than historical account’

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Williams

‘For what we find when we look at the life story of the Buddha is not a historical narrative but a hagiography, and it is as a hagiography that one should read the life story of the Buddha… '

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Vakkali Sutta

‘Who sees the Dhamma, sees me, and who sees me, sees the Dhamma’

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Lopez

‘It is to the Pali traditions we must go in preference to all other sources, if we desire to know whether any information is obtainable regarding the Buddha and his life’

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Denise Cush

‘There are many versions of mythical occurrences associated with the Birth of the Buddha. It is not necessary to explore such stories in detail. Suffice to say, all stories indicate that the Buddha was unique’

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Ashvaghosha's Buddhacarita

‘Having thus in due time issued from the womb, he shone as if he had come down from heaven, he who had not been born in the natural way - he who was born full of wisdom, not foolish, as if his mind had been purified by countless aeons of contemplatio

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Piyadassi Thera

‘His father provided him with the greatest comforts… Lacking nothing of the earthly joys of life, he lived amid song and dance, in luxury and pleasure, knowing nothing of sorrow’

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‘For what we find when we look at the life story of the Buddha is not a historical narrative but a hagiography, and it is as a hagiography that one should read the life story of the Buddha… '

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‘Who sees the Dhamma, sees me, and who sees me, sees the Dhamma’

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Buddhism Theme 1 Key Quotes