RELG 207 Lecture 1: Buddhism lecture 1
28 Jan 2017
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Buddhism: siddhartha gautama (surname, family name)- the young prince, who will become the buddha. Some of the details of his life that are important: he got married at 16 years old, he lived a life of luxury, at 29 years old, he renounced the world. This is the story of him sitting beside the tree for 6 days and speaking the famous words with the earth as his witness. He is enlightened at this moment: at 35 years old, he begins his career of preaching about enlightenment, he lived to about 80 years old, sakyamuni- silent sage of the sakya clan. In buddhism, it is believed that the truth is silence because you cannot say what the ultimate reality is about, so you must sit in silence and reflect. Siddhartha gautama was part of the kingdom/clan of sakya: chakravartin-a word that means the universal king.
