Siddhartha's Life

Siddhartha's Life

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The virtual exhibit that our group put together is about Siddhartha's life and includes images that represent important milestones in his life. Siddhartha’s life was filled with many important aspects. Our group chose to focus on four main parts in this exhibit.These four parts include Siddhartha’s birth, his discovery of the four sights, the enlightenment of Siddhartha, and lastly the death of Siddhartha. Each of the four parts of Siddhartha's life that we chose are picked because those are the most important events in his life and are the most influential. Starting with Siddhartha's birth, one could say he did not have the most normal birth of all, there were multiple spiritual aspects to his birth that raise many interesting questions. Siddhartha also had a very interesting mid-life before his enlightenment because he went from a prince who did not know anything about the world outside of his palace to discovering death, sickness, old age, and a monk that left behind everything. He realized that these four subjects are truly expressive of the world and are descriptive of the process that we all go through in life. He decided to set out to become enlightened like the monk, and fix the suffering in the world. After that comes Siddhartha's enlightenment, and eventually he becomes the Buddha. The final important part of his life is his death and how people reacted to his death. There are many theories behind his death and weather he ended his life on purpose or not. All in all, Siddhartha’s life is a very interesting topic and this exhibit splits his life up into the four major parts. All the images in the exhibit are under the CC domain and express Siddhartha's life in many different forms of art.

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Sacca. Four Heavenly Messengers. Digital image. Wikimedia Commons. N.p., May 2006. Web. 3 Dec. 2015. &lt;https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Four_Heavenly_Messengers.jpg

Shukla, Anirvan. "Shanti Stupa, Leh." Wikicommons. 27 Sept. 2013. Web. 3 Dec. 2015. JPG
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Buddhism: REL 222, Arts of Asia: ART 276

Dec. 9th-Dec.10th, 2015

Keeley Eames, Aafreen Vohra, William Rathjen, Jessica Davis

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