Word: siddartha
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...Jakarta Tales speak of a Prince Siddartha who lived in golden splendor. He lounged with almond-eyed dancing girls on silk cushions and sat idly in the garden, listening to musicians delicately plucking chords. To satisfy His Majesty’s appetite, the royal kitchen always bubbled with activity as the kingdom’s finest chefs prepared an endless variety of dishes. But when Prince Siddartha left the walls of this paradise and saw the suffering around him, no longer did sweet meats soothe him. Instead, he took up a beggar’s bowl and walked the North...
...application made a fortnight ago by certain U. S. Buddhists for permission to erect a statue of Siddartha Gautama in Central Park, Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 14) was rejected last week by Francis D. Gallatin, Commissioner of Parks...
...name was Siddartha Gautama. He was born in a small republic in Bengal somewhere between 500 and 600 B. C. Until he was 29 he lived the conventional life of an Eastern aristocrat of his period. His world was a world of sunlight sleeping in ageless gardens; his occupations hunting and lovemaking; he passed from gratification to gratification, looking for the answer to a question he had never phrased. Sometimes, when he traveled over his estates, he saw unpleasant things-a man dreadfully undone by age, a body scabrous with disease, a corpse putrefying in a field-but Channa...
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