RELIGST 1J03 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Gandhara

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELIGST 1J03
• Professor: Joe Larose

Document Summary

South asian believe in the idea of being stuck in samsara. The prince renounces the world he is giving up his possesions. He will give up his status as a prince. How is that the king cleans up the city but the he sees it. The picture gods want buddha shows buddha being carried by gods perphaps. The gods want the prince to renounce the world the gods help him see these sees. From a buddhist view but they are stuck in samsara too. And according to the bio then the hair flies into the heaven after the gods catch it and there the gods worship it. He is 29 years old when this happens he renounces the world. The buddha was not trying to escape samsara. He wants to attain a special secret knowledge. Hcontrol his food and fasing to the point of one grain of rice a day. He then decides that extreme seditism does not work either.