Social Studies Assignment: Buddhism

Social Studies Assignment: Summarize the key events in Siddartha's quest for wisdom once he has had the Four Encounters. (Due Tuesday, 12/23)

• Leaves home/family/palace
• Becomes wandering holy man / joins a group (sangha)
• Perfects the practices - asceticism
• Does this for six years
• Realizes he hadn't fulfilled his quest: end of suffering (enlightenment)
• Leaves the sangha; eats full meal
• Sits beneath tree (bodhi tree), meditates
• Achieves enlightenment: how to overcome suffering

Also, make a drawing of the Buddha sitting in meditation under the Bodhi tree.