| Life of the Buddha in pictures |
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1. The Birth of the Bodhisatta. On a full-moon day in the month of May (Visakha) 2600 years .... |
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2. Life as a Prince. Manifold was the variety of all the sensuous delights within the palace, .... |
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3. The realities of life. All King Suddhodana's efforts to protect his son from the four ... |
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4. The Great going forth. On the day of the Esala full-moon (July) the Crown Prince receives... |
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5. Experiment with Asceticism. For six long years the ascetic Gotama, as Prince Siddhattha was now known, ... |
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6. Enlightenment. Discarding both extremes of luxurious living and self mortification .... |
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7. The First Discourse. Having realized the Four Noble Truths - the Noble Truth of Suffering; the Cause of Suffering ... |
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8. Go now and wander for the welfare of the many. The Buddha stays on at Isipatana for the rainy season... |
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9. The law of Causation or Dependent Arising. After His Enlightenment under the Bodhi-tree at Buddhagaya, the Buddha reflects... |
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10. The Philosophy of change. The Buddha teaches that all conditioned things are in a state of flux or change, and thus ... |
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11. Unsatisfactoriness of Life. According to the Buddha, whatever is impermanent is subject to suffering,... |
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12. Buddha teaches that all Phenomena is soulless. When a thing is impermanent, as all... |
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13. Freedom of thought. At times referred to as the Buddha's Charter of Free inquiry this discourse ... |
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14. Towards human dignity. Sunita was a scavenger born into a so called outcaste community. .... |
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15. Equality of women. It was the Buddha who first gave women her rightful place in a society which had earlier ... |
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16. Human freedom. In the time of the Buddha it was common for both men and women to enter into services ... |
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17. Ministering to the sick. In spite of the fact that the study and practice of medicine and surgical science has ... |
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18. Psychic Therapy. The Buddha speaking on the mind, has also spoken on mental disorders ... |
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19. Compassion to Animals. In the Buddha's time there were various animal sacrifices taking ... |
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20. Buddhist Economic System. Many who are not familiar with the Buddha's Teaching classify it as a religion for the next .. |
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21. Buddhist Education. It is a method of teaching that is based on the mental development of the ... |
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22. Administration of Justice. Certain statutes regarding the administration of justice, were .... |
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23. World Peace. In the Buddha's Teaching the highest emphasis is laid on the ... |
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24. The Maha Parinibbana. The Buddha was born as a prince under a tree, gained Supreme .. |