https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr Made with a quick smile en-us 2020-09-17 22:43:01 UTC 2020-09-17 23:01:45 UTC hello@padlet.com k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757198229 Siddhartha Gautama is born in Lumbini, near the Nepalese-Indian border to his father, King Suddhodana, ruler of the Sakya tribe, and his mother, Queen Mayadevi. The father gives his son the name of Siddhartha]]> 2020-09-17 22:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757198229 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757206771 Siddhartha spends his childhood in the palace of his father at Kapilavastu, Southern Nepal, where he is raised by his aunt Mahaprajapati until the age of seven. In his early childhood, during a ploughing ceremony, Siddhartha makes his first unprecedented spiritual experience, where in the course of meditation he develops the first jhana]]> 2020-09-17 22:52:28 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757206771 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757207804 At the early age of sixteen, he marries his beautiful cousin Princess Yasodhara, who is of equal age.]]> 2020-09-17 22:53:19 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757207804 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757208585 The young prince spends thirteen more years together with his wife in the royal court of his father. Three palaces are built for him, one for the cold season, one for the hot season, and one for the rainy season. Siddhartha enjoys the lavish court life while his father is trying to screen him from all troubles and worries. A son is born while Siddhartha is in his late twenties.]]> 2020-09-17 22:53:53 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757208585 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757209450 He sees a decrepit old man, a diseased person, a corpse being cremated, and a sadhu. Siddhartha realises that there is old age, sickness, and death, and that people ultimately have little control over their lives. The fourth sight provides the inspiration that leads to a dramatic change in his life.]]> 2020-09-17 22:54:28 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757209450 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757210952 n the night of his 29th birthday, Siddhartha gives up his life as a prince and secretly leaves the court while everyone is asleep. He travels far and crosses the river Anoma, where he shaves his hair and hands over his princely garments to his groom Channa, with instructions to return them to the palace.]]> 2020-09-17 22:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757210952 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757212081 The Bodhisattva, who once lived in luxury, becomes a penniless and homeless wanderer. He leads a life of self-mortification and spiritual study, becomes first a disciple of several then famous Brahman teachers, and later attracts his own disciples.]]> 2020-09-17 22:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757212081 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757212844 While meditating under a Bodhi tree in Bodh-Gaya, south of Gaya in the state of Bihar, India, the Bodhisattva experiences the Great Enlightenment, which reveals to him the way of salvation from suffering. He spends seven weeks meditating in the vicinity of the site of the Bodhi tree and attains the status of a fully realised Buddha at the age of 35.]]> 2020-09-17 22:57:14 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757212844 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757213594 Buddha finds his former five disciples in Benares. In his first sermon he teaches them what will become the gist of Buddhism. Upon hearing it, one of the disciples instantly attains the status of an arhat. This event marks the beginning of the Buddhist teaching and his disciples become the first five members of the sangha.]]> 2020-09-17 22:57:48 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757213594 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757214844 During a short period of time, Buddha establishes a great reputation in western Hindustan by converting thousands of people to the dhamma. People hear the dhamma delivered either by himself, or by the monks of his order. During this time he delivers the fire sermon.

]]> 2020-09-17 22:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757214844 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757216045 The Buddha briefly returns to the palace of his father to convert the royal family and ordains many of the Sakya tribe.

]]> 2020-09-17 22:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757216045 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757217132 Four years later Siddhartha's father, King Suddhodana, dies. Buddha returns to the palace and Mahaprajapati, where Buddha's aunt -upon meeting Buddha- becomes the first woman to ordain, despite of the protest of some contemporaries. ]]> 2020-09-17 23:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757217132 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757217884 In the 45 years following his enlightenment, Buddha travels around Northern India to teach the tenets of Buddhism. He is extremely successful and attracts first thousands, then ten thousands, and later hundred thousands of people from all walks of life, who voluntarily decide to follow his teachings, the dhamma. ]]> 2020-09-17 23:00:48 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757217884 k2004825 https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757218491 Having achieved the goal of spreading the teaching to the greatest number of people, Buddha dies at the age of eighty years, as a result of food poisoning. He dies in a forest near Kusinagara, Nepal, in the company of his followers reclining on a bed where he speaks his last words: "All compounded things are ephemeral.]]> 2020-09-17 23:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/k2004825/h9kngb0rc8fv6fhr/wish/757218491