Little Buddha

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• Leerjaar 3

1) What are Siddhartha and Yashodhara talking about? What does Siddhartha want to know?

2) What does Siddhartha decide to do? What does king Suddhodana do?

3) What is the 1st type of suffering Siddhartha encounters?

4) What is the 2nd type of suffering Siddhartha encounters?

5) What is the 3rd type of suffering Siddhartha encounters?

6) What is the 4th type of suffering Siddhartha encounters?

7) What does Siddhartha learn on this day?

8) What did king Suddhodana want to conceal for his son? How did he do that himself?

9) What does Siddhartha decide on this day?

10) Why does Siddhartha leave even his own wife and new born son?

11) How is Siddhartha able to escape from the palace? What is meant by ‘the whole world is dreaming, but for Siddhartha the dream was ending and his journey of awakening had started’?

12) What are ascetics and what do they do?

13) What does Siddhartha decide? What does he want?

14) How does he show immediately to a beggar he is serious?

15) Who are the 1st disciples?

16) What is meditation? For whom is meditation meant?

17) What is Siddhartha trying to accomplish as an ascetic and how does he do that?

18) How does Siddhartha find out he’s on the wrong track? What is the right path?

19) What is the central building of Kathmandu?

20) How does Mara, lord of darkness, try to tempt Siddhartha to give up his quest? Why is Siddhartha not seduced?

21) Against what and whom does Siddhartha struggle furthermore?

22) Whom does Siddhartha struggle with in the end? What/who is he?

23) Who/what is witness to the enlightenment of Siddhartha?

25) What kind of building is visible in the worksheets at question 25?

26) Why is a mandala made of sand? What happens when a mandala is finished?

27) Are there female monks in Buddhism, or: nuns?

28) How do Buddhists think about death? What is possible in meditation?

29) What are the words of the heart-sutra? What is nirvana?