Buddha
Date Submitted: 07/21/2004 05:06:13
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 9 pages (2490 words)
Category: / Society & Culture / People
Length: 9 pages (2490 words)
Historical Person Paper
The Buddha
There have only been a handful of people in our society who have made such an incredible impact and contribution to our world, purely on the strength of their philosophy and enlightened state of mind. Siddartha Gautama was one of these chosen individuals. A person whose vast understanding of human
nature and life, equally through his wisdom and his kind heart, could truly be labeled historical. But to gain faith …
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…external fetters
as well as their opposites. However, these texts mostly consist of dry and
abstract lists with many repetitions.
Bibliography
1. Samyutta Nikaya 5:420 tr. Sanderson Beck.
2. Thomas, Edward J., The Life of the Buddha, p. 88.
3. Maha Parinibbana Suttanta 6:7 (156).
4. Brahma-Jala Sutta 1:9 (4).
5. Dhammapada 2:1-3 tr. Sanderson Beck.
6. Ibid. 18:17-19.
7. Ibid. 25:20-22.
8. The Questions of King Milinda tr. T. W. Rhys Davids, 4:4:16.
9. The Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines & Its Verse Summary tr.
Edward Conze, p. x.
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