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	Learn more about Buddhism in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Taking a little buttermilk from a passing goatherd, he found a large tree (now called the Bodhi tree) under which he would be shaded from the heat of the mid-summer sun, and set to meditating.
		The Buddha's teaching at his first sermon was that of the four noble truths.
		Three months after the passing of Gautama, The First Council was held by the Sangha.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /b/bu/buddhism_1.html (3060 words)

	Buddhism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Taking a little buttermilk from a passing goatherd, he found a large tree (now called the Bodhi tree) and set to meditating.
		For example, the precept pertaining to sexual misconduct becomes a precept of celibacy; the fourth precept, which pertains to incorrect speech, is expanded to four: lying, harsh language, slander, and idle chit-chat.
		Three months after the passing of Gautama Buddha, The First Council was held at Rajagaha by his immediate disciples who had attained Arahantship (Enlightenment).
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Buddhist (7678 words)

	The Life and First Teachings of the Buddha.
		On these four trips he saw things that opened his eyes to the fundamental problems of human existence and prompted him to pursue a life of philosophical questing, to acheive enlightenment, and to formulate principles and practices that have defined Buddhism ever since.
		The first three sights that he saw were a sick man, an old man, and a dead man. These were sights that he had never seen before, since his father had assiduously kept such troublesome things out of view, for fear that Siddhartha would renounce the world and his life as future king.
		When he announced this to four other ascetics, who were his companions and followers, they believed him to be a backslider, and left him to continue their ascetic practice.
	www.humboldt.edu /~wh1/6.Buddhism.OV/6.FourTruths.html (1972 words)

	Sights
		It is said that faint, eerie wailing can still be heard by those passing by the Church in the early morning hours.
		Four were tossed into the river while three were hung out on the hill to dry.
		Trakai: The nation's medieval-era capital, and a sight not to be missed.
	www.balticsww.com /tourist/lithuania/sights.htm (2960 words)

	Project Circumlectio - lindsey, nick, yasmine, raghu
		Karma is the belief that you are punished for sins you commit in your passed life explains why bad things may happen to good people.
		In the "Four Passing Sights" he saw a man of old age, a diseased man, a corpse, and finally a religious ascetic.
		The "Four Noble Truths" Gautama saw during his meditation are: To live is to suffer.
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	Gautama Buddha - Simple English Wikipedia
		He saw the "Four Passing Sights": an old crippled man, a sick man, a dead man, and a holy man with no home.
		This answer was called the Four Noble Truths.
		He taught about the Four Noble Truths and the Noble Eightfold Path.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gautama_Buddha (974 words)

	Buddhism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Then he remembered a moment in childhood in which he had been watching his father start the season's plowing, and he had fallen into a naturally concentrated and focused state in which time seemed to stand still, and which was blissful and refreshing.
		Taking a little buttermilk from a passing goatherd, he found a large tree (now called the (Click link for more info and facts about Bodhi tree) Bodhi tree) and set to (Click link for more info and facts about meditating) meditating.
		Three months after the passing of Gautama Buddha, The First Council was held at Rajagaha by his immediate disciples who had attained (Click link for more info and facts about Arahantship) Arahantship (Enlightenment).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Bu/Buddhism.htm (7183 words)

	Backround of Gautama and Buddhism
		The legend of the Four Passing Sights tells how he became aware of the world's suffering in spite of his parents' efforts to keep him away from seeing the world of evil and suffering.
		Siddhartha decided to elude the royal attendants and was able to leave his father's palace where he rode his chariot four times through the city.
		Before he passed away, he sent a message to Cunda saying that he should not feel guilty for being the cause of his death, for it was destined to be.
	www.letusreason.org /Buddh2.htm (1781 words)

	The Buddha
		As he rode forth into an unknown world, his eyes came upon four sights that were to change the course of his world: The first was a old man: his hair was gray, his back bent, teeth broken, supporting himself on a cane and trembling.
		The third sight was the corpse of a dead man; and the fourth a religious mendicant, a Brahmin monk who had left the world and adopted a homeless life in order to seek salvation.
		Siddhartha enquired of his charioteer, Channa, just what these sights were, and after he was told the meaning of old age, sickness and death, he knew what he must do.
	www.buddhistinformation.com /buddha1.htm (2537 words)

	Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This teaching is called the four noble truths:
		Three months after the passing of Gautama Buddha, The First Council was held by the Sangha.
		At this point, no conflict about what the Buddha taught is known to have occurred, so the teachings were divided into various parts and each was assigned to an elder and his pupils to commit to memory.
	pedia.newsfilter.co.uk /wikipedia/b/bu/buddhism_1.html (5017 words)

	History of Buddhism
		The son of a ruler, a prophecy at the time of his birth said that he would be a great king if he stayed at home, but would become a savior for mankind if he were to leave home.
		This excursion would change his life, for during this journey, he saw the "four passing sights".
		Even though his father had ordered the streets to be cleaned and decorated and all elderly or infirmed people hidden, some people did not listen.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/religion/buddhism/history.html (407 words)

	Buddha
		But in his twenties he renounced his royal inheritance, his temporal fortunes, and even his family, after having witnessed what legend calls The Four Passing Sights.
		The growth in the number of his disciples led to his establishment of the Sangha, the Buddhist monastic order, and it was his disciples who passed along his teachings, by word of mouth, from generation to generation.
		Not until some considerable time after his parinirvana, or his death, were the words of the Buddha recorded in written form.
	www.angelfire.com /sc2/physco851/buddha.html (584 words)

	Buddhism at SpiritDiscovery.com
		Shielded his whole life from any sight of the ravages of old age, suffering, illness, and death the sight of this gray haired old man, back crocked and bent, his teeth broken and rotted, stunned the Prince.
		Although the King demanded the guards insure an even wider perimeter around his son, on his next carriage ride, the Prince encountered a man lying by the side of the road, his body racked by disease.
		It is this final sight that makes Siddhartha Guatama aware of a life lived outside the world.
	www.spiritdiscovery.com /buddha.shtml (767 words)

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		This is when he saw the 4 Passing Sights.
		Because Siddhartha’s father had ordered unsightly people to hide away, Siddhartha was surprised when he saw the first passing sight: an old man. When he asked someone about this, he was told that all will become old one day.
		Then Siddhartha saw the second passing sight: a sick man. When he asked someone about this, he was told that all are liable to illness.
	webdisk.berkeley.edu /~jkcal/A_2.doc (918 words)

	Sights
		A peaceful haven of tranquility with not only a rose garden, but a Conifer Grove with mature pines, a wetland teeming with waterfowl, surrounding a water garden in riots of color, plus 13 other beautiful gardens.
		Gas lamps illuminating and horse drawn carriage passing Victorian building are a part of Denver's oldest retail district.
		Four hundred and fifteen square miles of breath taking beauty, 90% of which is designated wilderness.
	keycolorado.com /sights.html (2198 words)

	Mississippi Review
		Escaping from his confinement, the Buddha encountered the so called "four passing sights", in which he saw an old man, a sick man, a corpse and a wandering ascetic.
		Any happiness which is not to be dismissed simply as something transient or illusory must be able to take account of the "passing sights".
		In a world where such terrible passing sights have become commonplace, when the basic wrongness of the world is repeatedly brought to our attention, one might expect that our interest would be focused on precisely those strategies of happiness that claim to be able to transcend such things.
	www.mississippireview.com /2004/Vol10No3-Jul04/1003-070104-arthur-dagger.html (3565 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Features (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		An old man. A sick man. A dead man. These are three of the "Four Passing Sights" that launched Siddhartha Gautama on a voyage of discovery that led finally to Nirvana.
		That was in the 6th century B.C. Some 2,500 years later we find the foremost secular philosopher of our time, Bertrand Russell talking in his autobiography of the "suffering of mankind".
		Given that life expectancy at birth in Sri Lanka is over 70 years, many of those reading this article would be candidates for AD in the fullness of years.
	www.dailynews.lk /2001/10/03/fea04.html (626 words)

	Buddhism in a Nut Shell
		The first troubling sight Siddhartha saw was that of a decrepit old man. When Siddhartha asked what had happened to this man, he was told that the man was old, as everyone some day would become.
		Later he met a sick man and was told that all people were liable to be sick and suffer pain like that individual.
		The last sight was that of a monk begging for food.
	www.intervarsity.org /ism/article_item.php?article_id=471 (1746 words)

	Anti Essays : Free Essays on Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Soon after his birth a soothsayer named Asita predicted that he would become either the emperor of all India or if the "Four Passing Sights" should come to pass he would renounced the world and would become the greatest spiritual leader the world has ever known.
		But legend states the gods intervened with what is now called the "Four Passing Sights." In essence, the many variants of this story run something like this.
		All Buddhist scriptures are based on accounts of his life and teaching passed down orally by his disciples from generation to generation.
	www.antiessays.com /essay.php?cat=history&eid=1749 (2355 words)

	I'm Not Apoligizing! - Buddyism
		Therefore, to keep him at home, his father surrounded him and his brother with wealth and pleasures and kept all painful and ugly things out of their sights.
		The first troubling sight Sidney saw was that of a decrepit old man. When Sidney asked what happened to this man, he was told that the man was old, as everyone someday would become.
		The last sight was that of a monkey begging for his food.
	the-pashun.tripod.com /ch25.htm (2896 words)

	Tantric Buddhism Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Taking a little buttermilk from a passing goatherd, he found a large tree (now called the Bodhi tree) and set to meditationmeditating.
		In Tibet, the TantraTantric Vajrayana lineage was preserved after it disappeared in India.
		Three months after the passing of Gautama Buddha, The '''First Council''' was held at Rajagaha by his immediate disciples who had attained ArhatArahantship (Enlightenment).
	www.echostatic.com /index.php?title=Tantric_Buddhism (7160 words)

	Sai Newletter - Sai Vichaar
		A prophecy at his birth said that the child would be a great king if he stayed at home, but if he decided to leave home, he would become a savior for mankind.
		The king was disturbed at the thought of his son leaving home and hence he raised him in seclusion, surrounded him with wealth and pleasures and kept all painful and ugly things out of his sight.
		This trip forever changed the young prince, for it was during this journey that he saw the "four passing sights".
	www.saibaba.org /newsletter9.html (2210 words)

	Buddhism in Thailand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As he rode forth into an unknown world, his eyes came upon four sights that were to change the course of his world : The first was a old man, his hair was gray, his back bent, teeth broken, supporting himself on a cane and trembling.
		Siddartha enquired of his charioteer, Channa, just what these sights were, and after he was told the meaning of old age, sickness and death, he knew what he must do.
		The first Noble Truth is the existence of suffering : Birth is suffering, sickness is suffering, old age is suffering, death is suffering, Sorrow, dejection and despair are suffering.
	www.thailand4you.info /budha.html (3742 words)

	Smith Questions
		In the section "The Symbolic Mind" smith seems to say that we can characterize primal religions as both polytheistic and monotheistic without necessarily contradicting ourselves.
		What four adjectives does Smith use to summarize the Jewish conception of the nature of human beings?
		List four reasons leading to the establishment of the Jewish nation of Israel in 1948.
	www.siprep.org /faculty/whaardt/SmithQuestions.cfm (2187 words)

	SIGHTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		But the interior of this fastidiously appointed museum is not just a geologist's dream; it's also an anthropological, zoological and historical paradise -- far and away better (in all four respects) than any such repository we have on the Kentucky side of the Ohio.
		It's a great introduction to the maze of displays -- all top-drawer in their presentation and comprehensiveness -- throughout the rest of the building.
		The Falls of the Ohio rapids, which stalled navigation in the city's early days, are now skirted by barges toting an average of five million tons of cargo (mostly coal) through the Portland Canal each month.
	www.louisville.com /loumag/jan/sitesee.htm (1906 words)

	A Ready Defense - Buddhism
		Therefore, to keep him at home, his father surrounded him with wealth and pleasures and kept all painful and ugly things out of his sight.
		The first troubling sight Siddhartha saw was that of a decrepit old man. When Siddhartha asked what happened to this man, he was told that the man was old, as everyone someday would become.
		When he asked what that meant, the prince was informed that it was the way of life, for sooner or later both prince and pauper would have to die.
	www.greatcom.org /resources/areadydefense/ch25 (2647 words)

	The Raft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The sight of these things and the relevation of what they mean troubled him so much that everything he owed or possessed lost its appeal, and he abandoned his nobility and status to seek enlightenment and the truth of the world.
		Gautama witnessed four things that forced him to re-evaluate his life, each on a different journey to the outside world: an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and a monk.
		These four things started Gautama on his path to awakening and enlightenment and he emerged as Buddha.
	web.syr.edu /~razubal/raft.htm (2023 words)

	Ziniewicz on Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		To make sure of his son's political future, Gautama's father protected him from the pain and suffering of human beings.
		Despite this "sheltering," Gautama is said to have witnessed "Four Passing Sights" -- a man wracked by disease, a man decrepit with old age, a corpse, and a monk begging alms.
		These sights so affected the sensitive Gautama that he resolved to leave his relatives and his life of luxury in order to discover for himself the truth of human life and suffering.
	www.fred.net /tzaka/buddha.html (3564 words)

	College Papers-Buddhism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This is where he saw the “four passing sights.” “The first was a sorrowful, old man. The second was a man racked by illness.
		The third was a man being carried on a funeral pyre.” This was the first time that he had seen that life is not just pleasure and joy.
		“His fourth sight was a mink calmly walking alone in a yellow robe.”(Encyc.
	www.college-papers.org /free_essays/religion/buddhism4mnn.html (1756 words)

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