Thursday, May 9,2013

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 10^th 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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