Q1: What was the original name of the Buddha?
Ans: The original name of the Buddha was Siddhartha Gautama.
Q2: What did Siddhartha study in school?
Ans: Siddhartha was sent away to school to study the sacred Hindu scriptures.
Q3: What did Siddhartha see at the age of twenty-five?
Ans: At the age of twenty-five, he saw a sickman, an aged man, a funeral procession and a monk begging.
Q4: Where did Siddhartha get enlightened?
Ans: Siddhartha got enlightened under a peepal tree after seven days.
Q5: Why was the tree renamed as‘Bodhi Tree’?
Ans: The Buddha got wisdom under the tree. So it was renamed ‘Bodhi tree’.
Q6: What was the problem of Gotami?
Ans: Gotami’s son had died. She wanted him to live again.
Q7: What did she see in the city?
Ans: She watched the light of the city.
Q8: What did she learn from the flickering of lights?
Ans: She learnt that the fate of men is just like the city lights that flickered and extinguished again and again.
Q9: Who is being addressed by the Buddha?
Ans: The people of Benares were being addressed by the Buddha.
Q10: What did he say about life of mortals?
Ans: Buddha said that all mortals have to die.
Q11: What is inevitable?
Ans: Death is inevitable.
Q12: What have the life and death of the man been compared to?
Ans: The life and death are being seen and compared with the ripe fruits which have to fall.