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The Sermon at Benares
English · CBSE Class 10 · English Medium · 14 questions and answers
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- Q: Who wrote 'The Sermon at Benares'?
- A: Betty Renshaw; it retells an episode from the life of Gautama Buddha.
- Q: Who was Gautama Buddha before enlightenment?
- A: He was Prince Siddhartha Gautama, a sheltered royal prince who later became the Buddha ('the Enlightened One').
- Q: Why did the prince leave his palace?
- A: After seeing a sick man, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk, he left to seek the truth about suffering.
- Q: For how long did Gautama seek enlightenment and where did he attain it?
- A: He wandered and meditated for seven years, attaining enlightenment under a peepal (Bodhi) tree at Bodh Gaya.
- Q: Where did Buddha preach his first sermon?
- A: At Benares (Varanasi), on the banks of the river Ganges, one of the holiest cities.
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