RELG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Age Of Enlightenment, Mahayana, Lightning

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 253
• Professor: Victor Soﾍgen Hori

Document Summary

When: approx 563-483 bce (we don"t really know) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) fragmented are the information about it. (cid:1) history. The more you get close to the time of the buddha, the more (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) The closer you come to modern period, the more detailed is the. Queen maya dream of the white elephant. She had a dream in which a god transported her bed to a mountain. From the sky descended the white elephant and walked around her bed. 3x and touched the right side of her body with its truck and she became pregnant. 9 months after, she went to her parent"s. she walked to the garden in the flowers and the trees. When she raised her right hand to touch a flower, the buddha emerge from where the elephant touched her. 32 signs of a cakravartin (world ruler).