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Sumedho with the Buddha Dipankara, receiving the prediction that he would become a Buddha |
Queen MahaMaya's dream of conceiving the Bodhisatta |
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The birth of Prince Siddhattha, the Bodhisatta, in Lumbini |
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Prince Siddhattha's marriage to Yasodhara |
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The four sights--an old man, a sick man, a dead man, and an ascetic--which prompted Prince Siddhattha to leave home and to seek the end of suffering |
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The ascetic Gotama receiving the meal from Sujata |
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Mara's attack on the ascetic Gotama under the Bodhi Tree |
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The Buddha contemplating the Abhidhamma |
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Sakka, King of the Gods, appearing before Gotama and playing a three-stringed lute, which represents the Middlle Way |
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The Buddha treating the sick monk, Tissa: "He who cares for the sick cares for me." |
Queen Khema's understanding of the truth of old age and impermanence |
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The Buddha's First Sermon at Isipathana |
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Patacara, distraught after losing her husband, her two sons, her parents and her brother all on the same day, arriving at Jetavana |
Kisa-Gotami, unable to accept the death of her beloved son, being asked by the Buddha to find mustard see from a house where no one had ever died |
The establishment of the order of bhikkhunis with the ordination of MahaPajapati-Gotami |
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The coversion of the yakkha, Alavaka |
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The coversion of the the murderer, Angulimala |
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The coversion of BakaBrahma |
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The coversion of the elephant, Nalagiri |
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The coversion of the naga, Nandopananda |
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Mahaparinibbana, the passing away of the Buddha |
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The division of the relics of the Buddha among the eight kings |
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Erecting stupas over the relics of the Buddha |
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