Background on Buddha
Review for test see below for the ideas of the review. I need to work more on the ppt.
Deteriorata.
Ode to Mom
Reminders:
Monday, May Be reading choice reading. 800 pages required for 100%
Wednesday, May 8, Make sure you bring choice reading.
Thursday, May 9, more about the real Buddha.
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Notes on Hesse and Siddhartha
Hesse
was a restless young man; his parents couldn’t handle him.
Hesse
rebelled against his _________
_____________ ____________ (Pietist Lutheran.
In
1911 he took a trip to _______ from which the novel ________________ emerged.
It is an example of the choice between ____________ and security.
Hesse
deals with the ideas of opposites: yin and _______; intellect and ________;
illusion and _______; dualism and _____________.
Hesse’s
heroes: artists alienated from _______; men disenchanted with _________; intellectuals
who eye the ______ warily.
Siddhartha
means “he who is on ____ _______ ______.
Buddha
means “ to _________”
Siddhartha
Gautama was a spiritual teacher in the NE region of the Indian subcontinent who
founded __________. He was
raised in modern day ___________.
His father was King Suddhodana, the leader of the Shakya clan. ___________
was his family name. His mother was Queen ______ ______. The Buddha’s birth
and life are widely celebrated as ______.
His mother died at his birth, maybe up to a week later.
Siddhartha
was destined to a luxurious life as a ______. His father shielded his son from
religious teachings or knowledge of human _________. He was brought up by his
mother’s younger sister, Maha Pajapati.
At
the age of 16, his father arranged his marriage to a cousin; she gave birth to
the boy Rahula. Siddhartha spent
_____ years as a prince. He felt that there was more to life than
material wealth. He wanted to see his subjects. His father attempted to remove
disturbing elements from his son’s view. But Siddhartha saw a(n) _____ man, a(n) _____ man, and a(n)
__________.
Siddhartha
escaped his palace along with his charioteer Channa and aboard his horse Kanthaka, to live a
life of a _________. This is called “The Great ______”.
He
practiced under two hermit teachers, but not being satisfied, he moved on. With
a group of _____ companions, they set out to take their austerities even
further.
After nearly starving, he collapsed in a
river while bathing and almost drowned.
After
this he is said to have discovered the _______ ______- a path of moderation
between the extremes of ____-________ and self- ____________.
Sitting
under a pipal tree, now known as the _______ tree in Bodh Gaya, India, he vowed
never to rise until he had found the Truth. After ____ days meditation, at the age of ____, he attained
Enlightenment. With this he categorized the truth into four noble truths:
1. ___________ is omnipresent
2. Its cause is wrongly
directed ______.
3. Remove the cause and the
cause for suffering is removed.
4. The Noble Eightfold Path
leads to the end of __________.
His
son Rahula joined the sangha at the age of seven. A cousin Devadatta became
monk although he later tried to _________________. When Buddha heard of the impending death of his father, he
went and preached the dharma, and his father became an arahant prior to death.
His mother approached him asking to join the sangha. Buddha ______________. She
followed group and eventually Buddha accepted them on the grounds that their
capacity for enlightenment was equal to that of a man.
Devadatta
tried to kill Buddha ____ times. One with a group of _______, a second with a
large _________, and a third with a drunken ________.
At the age of _____, the Buddha announced
that he would soon reach Parinirvana. After his death, he was __________ and
the relics were placed in stupas.
Many
westerners associate the name of Buddha with a smiling, fat, balding person.
This is inaccurate, as the person in these is Budai, a Chinese Buddhist monk
who lived in the 10th century CE. - Source: Wikipedia.
•Characters for 100
What occupation was Siddhartha’s father?
•Characters for 200
Siddhartha’s closest friend in
Part One
•Characters for 300
What was the name of the ferryman we meet
early in the book?
•Characters for 400
What is the Buddha’s real name?
•Characters for 500
The merchant’s name, and the courtesan’s name
(two answers).
•Concepts for 100
What does Siddhartha try to rid himself as an ascetic?
•Concepts for 200
What are the three skills that Siddhartha
tells Kamala that he possesses.
•Concepts for 300
At first what seems to separate Siddhartha
from ordinary people?
•Concepts for 400
What single thing prevents Siddhartha from
committing suicide?
•Concepts for 500
What is the name for the cycle of
life, death, rebirth?
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•The story for 100
What is the name of the divine within a
person?
•The story for 200
At first, what did Siddhartha feel separated
him from other people?
•The story for 300
Which is not Buddha’s doctrine:
1.it is possible to eradicate pain
2.life is pain
3.When we die, we experience either
eternal damnation or bliss
•The story for 400
The ferryman teaches Siddhartha the wisdom of
what?
•The story for 500
The news of whose imminent death starts many people to travel
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•The story for 100
At first, Kamala asked Siddhartha
to come back when he had what?
•The story for 200
Pick the odd statement, true or false.
1 Hesse lived most of his life in India.
2 Buddha was born in southern Nepal.
3 Buddha’s son, wife, and aunt became
followers.
•The story for 300
1.Buddha never saw his father again
after leaving as a youth
2.Buddha left his father’s palace
at the age of 29.
3.Buddha and his followers ate once
per day, never after noon.
•The story for 400
1. The Bohdi tree still stands today in the same place.
2. Lotus is symbol of Buddha because it is
the most beautiful flower.
3. To escape the cycle, one must reache nirvana.
•The story for 500
1.Food obtained from begging could
not be kept for another day.
2.Before he died, Buddha asked his
disciples to follow another buddha.
3.Buddha reached enlightenment at
the age of 35 and died when he was 80.
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•Miscellaneous for 100
What is missing from Buddha’s teaching,
according to what Siddhartha believes?
•Miscellaneous for 200
What is the
name of the ascetics that Siddhartha joins in the first chapter?
•Miscellaneous for 300
To what fruit does Siddhartha often connect
to Kamala’s mouth?
•Miscellaneous for 400
What event caused Siddhartha to feel a great
kinship with ordinary people?
•Miscellaneous for 500
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