Sources on the Buddha’s life indicate that he was born around the 6th century BCE. The events and conditions of his conception are miraculous. Tradition reports that the Buddha’s mother, Maya2, had just returned from the Festival of the Full Moon in the month of Asalha3, when a deep sleep overcame her. During her sleep, she envisioned a beautiful white elephant approaching her. The Mahavastu Pali texts relate the elephant as being: light of steps, flawless of limbs, gleaming like snow-white silver with six tusks, and a gracefully waving trunk and crimson head.4 The elephant, holding a white lotus in its trunk, circled the queen’s body three times, and then entered into her womb from the right side.
It is held that when the would-be Buddha entered his mother’s womb, there appeared an “unlimited and glorious radiance, surpassing even the majesty of the devas.”5 This light was so powerful that the dark…
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23 See http://www.bible2000.org/forgottenindex.htm
24 Amore, Roy C. and Julia Ching. The Buddhist Tradition. In Willard G. Oxtoby, Ed. World Religions: Eastern Traditions. P. 221
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Edwardes, Michael. Ed. A Life of the Buddha – From a Burmese Manuscript. The Folio Society, London; 1959
Oxtoby, Willard G. World Religions: Eastern Traditions. Oxford University Press; 4 edition. March 11, 2014
Holy Bible – “The Official King James Bible Online” Web. 4 June 2015.
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Khosla, Sarla. The Historical Evolution of the Buddha Legend. Intellectual Publishing House, Delhi; 1989
“Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha and Sacred Writings.” Web. 1 June 2015. http://www.pseudepigrapha.com/
M.H. Shakir. [Trans] The Holy Qur’an. Web. 18 May 2015. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/browse.html
The Adolescent Crisis of The Catcher in the Rye
The Adolescent Crisis of The Catcher in the Rye
Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye is valid, realistic, representation of the adolescent world. The book is about adolescent crisis.
The main character, Holden, runs away from his expensive school because he is an academic failure and finds intolerable the company of so many phoneys. Holden is a rangy sixteen year old who has grown too fast. Girls are on his mind. Whenever girls do something pretty, even if they’re ugly or stupid, you fall half in love with them. “Sex is something I really don’t understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are. I keep making up these sex rules for myself, and then I break them right away. Last year I made up a rule that I was going to quit horsing around with girls that, deep down, gave me a pain in the ass. I broke it, though, the same week I made it . . . Sex is something I just don’t understand.”2
Salinger sees that all the contradictions, agonies, and exaltations of adolescence stem from the central fact: “that the adolescent has newly gained the physical potentialities for sexual experience but has not learnt to integrate them either within himself or in any consistent relation to the demands of society.”3 From this flows everything-the confused idealism of his attitude to Jane Gallagher; the naively unscrupulous calculatingness of his adventures; the wish for experiment and the corresponding fear and revulsion; a general fascination and disgust with the physical-Ackley’s pimples, Stradlater’s toenails; a new horrified awareness of the physical process.
Holden’s anguished confusion about sex gives us the measure of both the depth and complexity of his conflict. Sexual awareness is conspicuously…
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