: An old, sick & dead man and a calm wandering recluse.
The
Bodhisatta observes his dancing girls & realizes the vanity and depravity of luxury.
He decides to leave his wife and newborn son
Rāhula and become a wandering recluse.
He leaves his palace at night on his horse
Kanthaka followed by his driver
Channa.
He crosses the river
Anomā, cuts his topknot, throws it up, where
Sakka catches it.
Gotama then strives and starves himself for six years without result.
The 5 leaves him.
The maiden
Sujātā offers the last milk-rice meal on the morning of his Enlightenment.
The
Buddha throws the plate into the river
Nerañjarā, where
Nāga Mahākāla hears it.
Gaining the
6 higher powers he sees the
rebirth of beings and recalls all his
prior lives.
He is indifferent to the temptations of
Māra's 3 daughters:
Rāga,
Tanhā and
Aratī.
Under the
Ajapala-nigrodha banyan tree Buddha spent a week cross-legged in
Jhāna .
The
Mahābrahmā Sahampati requests the
Buddha to open the doors to
Deathlessness...
The
Nāga King
Mucalinda protects the fasting
Buddha in 3rd week after enlightenment.
Descending in
Sankassa after having spoken the
Abhidhamma to the assembled
Devās.
The
Buddha explains the true
Dhamma to the many beings for their long-term welfare.
The
Buddha compassionately attends to the sick and dying to guide them through it.
The
Buddha visits his home and his former wife
Yasodharā in the city of
Kapilavatthu.
He meets his father the
Sākyan King
Suddhodana.There he brings his son
Rāhula to the
Sangha, who ordains him.
Rāhula later awakens.
He shows his half brother
Nanda the beauty of the divine nymphs & ordains him as monk.
The
Buddha dispels the manifold
doubts of many of the elder Brahmin chiefs.
The
Buddha explains
Breathing Meditation Ānāpāna-sati on the
full-moon of November
He realizes that his long prepared mission has finally been completed & renounces life.
He deliberately accepts some accidentally poisoned food from
Cunda & gets very sick.
Soon after the Lord
Buddha dies and attains
Parinibbāna in the small town of
Kusinārā.