Identify the purported miraculous events of the Buddha’s conception & birth.

 

 

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?

 

 

 

a-

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

a-

 

 

 

b-

 

 

 

c-

 

 

 

d-

 

 

 

6-Why did Sidharta leave home & abandon his family?