Thapar, Romila 2002 , The Penguin History of Early India: From Origins to AD 1300, Penguin• | However, Gautama felt unsatisfied by the practice because it "does not lead to revulsion, to dispassion, to cessation, to calm, to knowledge, to awakening, to Nibbana", and moved on to become a student of : Udaka Ramaputta |
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While Brahminical teachers affirmed atman theories in an attempt to answer the question of what really exists ultimately, the Buddha saw this question as not being useful, as illustrated in | , India through the ages, Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, p |
Majjhima Nikaya 4 also mentions that Gautama lived in "remote jungle thickets" during his years of spiritual striving and had to overcome the fear that he felt while living in the forests.
2——— 1990 , Buddhism and Nature, Tokyo,• In the Early Buddhist Texts, the Buddha also references Brahmanical devices | The retell previous lives of Gautama as a , and the first collection of these can be dated among the earliest Buddhist texts |
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250 BCE No written records about Gautama were found from his lifetime or from the one or two centuries thereafter | notes that several locations of both early Buddhism and Jainism are closely related to -worship, that several Yakshas were "converted" to Buddhism, a well-known example being , and that several Yaksha-shrines, where trees were worshipped, were converted into Buddhist holy places |
The Nikaya-texts narrate that the ascetic Gautama practised under two teachers of meditation.
24According to Rupert Gethin, in the Nikayas and Agamas, the Buddha's path is mainly presented in a cumulative and gradual "step by step" process, such as that outlined in the | Narada 1992 , A Manual of Buddhism, Buddha Educational Foundation,• The Jatakas also sometimes depict negative actions done in previous lives by the bodhisattva, which explain difficulties he experienced in his final life as Gautama |
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Other styles of Indian Buddhist art depict the Buddha in human form, either standing, sitting crossed legged often in the or lying down on one side | External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to |
A recent study by concludes that the Theravada and Sarvastivada contain mostly the same major doctrines.
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