I have a couple of questions about Siddharth
- When his father confronted him about his duties to succeed him, why didn't he ask his son Rahul to take on the succession, instead of admitting him & Yashodhara into the Sangha?
- Didn't Devadatta have any desires for the Kapilavastu throne? Once Siddharth had vacated it, why didn't he simply stake his claim and try and win it for himself?
- What happened to Kapilavastu (in terms of succession) after Suddhoyana died?
On a different note, if this show is authentic in terms of story, I hope it gets translated into other languages whose speakers are Buddhist - Tibetan, Sinhala, Burmese/Myanmarese, Thai, Cambodian, Vietnamese, maybe even Korean.
But Nepal was more or less pretty isolated from the rest of India - during the Maurya, Gupta, Saka, Kushana and other empires in the Classical Age, while several kingdoms from Gaur to Gandhara interacted w/ each other, there wasn't much w/ Nepal, probably due to the Himalayas and its accessibility. In fact, Nepal, while not a political entity, was very much a regional entity separate from the rest of Aryavarta - about as much as Lanka was.
Why do most of us say "Buddha was born in Nepal"?? Don't get me wrong, I'm not disputing his birthplace. The only problem is that, technically speaking, this statement is wrong. Buddha WASN'T "born" anywhere. It is Prince Siddhartha Gautama who was born in Nepal. Siddhartha Gautama did NOT become The Buddha immediately after birth.And, if you really have to talk about Buddha's "birth", it is actually Siddhartha's enlightenment, after which he became known as The Buddha. This glorious event happened in Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India. I presume you've all heard of the Mahabodhi Temple, right?I honestly don't understand why some people get so egoistically possessive about Siddhartha's birthplace. Yes, I am aware that many people still make the mistake of saying that he was born in India. But why feel so egoistic about the whole thing that you actually get "offended", if someone mistakenly says that he was born in India? I mean,Buddha's teachings are for the "entire world", and not just "restricted" for the country where he was born as Siddhartha.I wonder if Siddhartha himself really cared about where he was born. And I wonder how Siddhartha himself would react if he came to know that arguments actually occur over his birthplace...By making his birthplace an ego issue of sorts, we are basically displaying our own narrow mindset that we cannot escape from the shackles of regionalism.Siddhartha Gautama was born in Nepal, and he became The Buddha in India.See - BOTH countries get credit, if that is what people argue about so much.
Any idea - why did Devadatta want to lead the Sangha, as opposed to just trying to succeed Sudhoyana as the ruler?
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