The Buddha - A Portrait: Perfect in knowledge and conduct | Who was the Buddha?

This is a portrait of the Buddha based on the most ancient sources: The Sutta Pitaka and Vinaya Pitaka dating from before 400 BC. It recollects the Buddha as perfect in knowledge and conduct (Vijjācaraṇa sampanno) and as the knower of the cosmos (Lokavidū) - Two of his unique qualities that we can remember about him.

Learn about the way of life, the amazing qualities, meditative attainments, psychic powers and the final knowledge of awakening of the Buddha.

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Chapters:

0:00 Intro, the physical appearance of the Buddha

8:21 A monk who never saw the Buddha goes to meet him...

12:23 How did the Buddha live?

20:37 The virtuous behavior of the Buddha

28:25 The Buddha's love for silence and seclusion

33:04 An overview of the Buddha's supreme spiritual qualities

33:35 The supreme compassion of the Buddha

35:18 The total fearlessness of the Buddha

43:03 The meditative attainments of the Buddha

46:31 The psychic powers and higher knowledges of the Buddha

51:19 The ultimate knowledge of awakening

57:12 Who was the Buddha? The All-Transcender

Quotes Suttas (discourses of the Buddha):

Anguttara Nikaya 10:81 (Numerical Discourses of the Buddha)
The Buddha - The Lotus that has transcended the world
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/AN...

Anguttara Nikaya 4:34 and Itivuttaka 112
Why the Buddha is called "The Tathāgata"
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN...

Samyutta Nikaya 23:2 (Connected Discourses of the Buddha)
How someone is reconed as "a being"
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN...

Majjhima Nikaya 72 (Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha)
The Buddha has transcended form, feeling, perception, formation and consciousness and is liberated from them. He is unfathomable and immeasurable like the ocean.
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...

Udana 5:6 (The monk who never saw the Buddha goes to meet him)
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/KN...

Majjhima Nikaya 91 (Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha)
The Brahmin Student who followed the Buddha for seven month describes his conduct and behaviour
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...

Majjhima Nikaya 77 (Middle Length Discourses of the Buddha)
Noisy wanderers become silent when they see the Buddha coming because they know he likes silence
https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/MN...

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