HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Detailed explanation-1: -Who among the following teachers were visited by Siddhartha Gautama in the quest of knowledge before his enlightment ? Alara Kalama.
Detailed explanation-2: -After 49 consecutive days of meditation, Gautama became the Buddha, or “enlightened one”. He made this announcement in public at about 528 BCE and gained a group of disciples who became Buddhist monks and traveled throughout northern India spreading his teachings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Siddhartha at first sought out the famous teacher Arada Kalama with whom he studied until he had mastered all Kamala knew, but the “attainment of nothingness” he gained did nothing to free him from suffering.
Detailed explanation-4: -(Pāli, Uddaka Rāmaputta). One of the Buddha’s first two teachers, the other being Āḷāra Kālāma. Udraka taught the Buddha a meditational practice leading to a state of trance known as ‘neither-perception-nor-non-perception, ‘ a condition of pure awareness devoid of any perceptual experience.