The Life of Buddha
An introduction to the life of Buddha by the BBC. Siddhartha Gautama was born around the year 580 BCE in the village of Lumbini in present-day Nepal.
He was born into a royal family, and his privileged life insulated him from the sufferings of life; sufferings such as sickness, age and death.
One day, after growing up, marrying and having a child, Siddhartha went outside the royal enclosure where he lived. When he went outside he saw, each for the first time, an old man, a sick man, and a corpse.
This greatly disturbed him, and he learned that sickness, age, and death were the inevitable fate of human beings - a fate no-one could avoid.
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comment #3778 ZB
You are quite right. Thank god for the BBC.
reply | permalinkcomment #701 the random guy
as usual the great documentary makers over at BBC provide an entertaining and intellectual video.
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