A Sketch of the Buddha's Life

Readings from the Pali Canon

13,055 words

This modest selection of excerpts from the Pali Canon provides a rough sketch of the life of the Buddha. I hope you will find enough in this rather sparse selection to gain at least an inkling both of the range of the Buddhas teachings and of the sweeping trajectory of his extraordinary life....

And Beings From The Heavenly Realms

"...Many hundred assemblies of gods of the heaven of the Four Great Kings...many hundred assemblies of gods of the heaven of the Thirty three...many hundred assemblies of Maras retinue...many hundred assemblies of Brahmas. And formerly I had sat with them there and talked with them and held conversations with them..."

[MN 12]

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