RELG 252 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gautama Buddha, Artha, Old Age
14 Sep 2016
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Tuesday 28th of october: buddha- the awakened one. It is not a personal name, it describe a state which an individual can achieve: may have lived from 623-543 bce, or 566-486 bce, or 484-404 bce but we don"t know for sure about any of these. They were people in power but we don"t know the extent of the power the possessed-some say they were rulers-king and queen. The elephant has three sets of tusks-so 6, it is white-pure who explains that she is pregnant. When he does he cries because he is sad about his age limiting his ability to see him grow up. The predictions were that if the baby is confronted with the su ering of the world, he is going to become a renounciator. If not, he would become a great king and follow in his parents foot steps.
