BBC’s Life of Buddha
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1Qhja4OhdM)
1-Identify the purported miraculous events of the Buddha’s conception & birth.
Father’s Name: Suddhodana
Mother’s Name: Maya
Wife’s Name:
Son’s Name: Rahula
White Elephant with 6 Tusks entered Queen Maya’s Uterus
Wheel Symbol on Siddharta’s Feet
2-What were the 2 options within the prediction about Sidharta Gautama’s eventual career path?
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b-
3-What did Sidharta’s father not want him to witness? Why not?
4-Why did Sidharta become sad while watching a farmer plow land?
5-Identify the 4 suffering people who radically altered the direction of Sidharta’s career.
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b-
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6-Why did Sidharta leave home & abandon his family?
