The 4 Sights Flashcards
1
Q
What are the 4 sights in order
A
Old age, sickness, death and a holy man
2
Q
What did the 4 sights make him realise
A
That mortality exists as well as suffering
3
Q
What is a parable
A
a short simple story illustrating a moral or spiritual truth
4
Q
What does ascetic mean
A
characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons.
5
Q
What is a Pali Cannon
A
The Pāli Canon is the standard collection of scriptures in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, as preserved in the Pāli language. It is the most complete extant early Buddhist canon
