A meditation on Buddhism in the time of pandemic
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A meditation on Buddhism in the time of pandemic
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If there’s one thing that illustrates the basic insights of Buddhism, it’s this coronavirus. According to the Buddha’s hagiography, Siddhartha Gautama ventured out of his sheltered palace preserve as a young prince and experienced the Four Encounters: he saw an old man, a sick man, and a corpse before finally seeing a social renunciate or sannyasin.
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2022-11-23
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Pamela Winfield
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