Summary Of Pizza Tuesday By Kenycho Tenzin

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For this Pizza Tuesday, Kencho Tenzin, a faculty member at Georgia Highlands College, came to speak about Buddhism. The founder of Buddhism is Siddhartha Gautama. At age 29 in the middle of the night, he renounces everything including his wife, son, and palace. He felt discontent. He spent years away, and then under a Bodhi tree he was enlightened. Buddha’s first teaching after his enlightenment was Four Noble Paths which talk about suffering. Tenzin mentions how suffering is the main theme of Buddhism just like numbers is talked about in math. The Dukkha, or suffering, is not physical like a headache, but it is more like discontent. The moment a person gets something new, they feel happy for an instant, but then time passes and he or she wants

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