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Word: bodhi (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...existence after seeing four facts of life for the first time: a sick man, an old man, a dead man and a holy man. He fled to the forest to seek enlightenment, tried and abandoned the ways of the hermit and the ascetic, and, after meditating under a sacred Bodhi tree for 49 days, at last achieved Buddhahood-enlightenment, or nirvana. He spent the rest of his life walking through India with his disciples, teaching until he died at 80, leaving a final admonition: "Work out your salvation with diligence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE FAITH THAT LIGHTS THE FIRES | 8/23/1963 | See Source »

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