01:840:211 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Uddaka Ramaputta, Bodh Gaya, Abhidharma
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Chapter 2 the story of the buddha: his birth, four scenes, renunciation, study under two teachers, enlightenment, teaching, death. Life collected in canon scripture (pali canon) Left the house at age 29 to receive enlightenment at 35 and teach till he was 80. Four important events are birth, enlightenment, first sermon, and death. Left home (wife and kid) after the four scenes. Mediational teaching that led to a trance. First watch: look back on the past. Second watch: see the dead and rebirth. Discourse sutta called setting in motion the wheel of the dharma. Died between two sal trees in kusinara. Decay is inherent in all things (last words) Chapter 3 six realms of rebirth and the special characteristics of each realm; three spheres of universe according to buddhism (p. 39); karma. Titans: warlike beings at the mercy of violent impulses. Hell: place of woes and suffering hot and cold hells. Humans: free will seen as the middle way.
