Friday, February 7, 2025

Via Bodhipaksa @ Wildmind // A new "mythbusting" article

 

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Mythbusting the Buddha’s “four sights”

Just as everyone "knows" that the Buddha was a prince, everyone "knows" that he left home in the middle of the night because on trips out of the palace he'd seen, for the first time, an old man, a sick man, a human corpse, and a holy wanderer.

But is there any evidence any of this actually happened?

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