Page 26 - HP2A 013 The legend of Gautama Buddha

received as an offering from the

local blacksmith. However after

consuming the meal Buddha became

terribly ill, but told his disciples to

tell the local blacksmith that his

passing and illness had nothing to do

with the food that he ate. He wanted

The death of Siddhartha to assure the people around that it

At the age of 80, Buddha announced was just the time when he had to go.

that he would soon be reaching Buddha died at Kusinara, present-

the final deathless state, called the day Kushinagar, India, which is now

Parinirvana. This was when he a very famous pilgrimage centre.

would abandon his earthly body. Buddha chose to enter Parinirvana

Buddha ate his last meal, which he in the abandoned jungles, but one of