The Legendary Stories of Sakyamuni Buddha's Past and Present Lives

Introduction to the work: He was once the Sattva prince who sacrificed his life to feed tigers on the top of the snow-capped mountains, practicing compassion with his flesh and blood; he was also a Brahmin who meditated in the forest, asking about the true meaning of life and death under the starry night; he was even a wheel-turning holy king, resolving conflicts with wisdom and protecting thousands of living things. After many reincarnations, he was born in Kapilavastu in this life and became the prince Gautama Siddhartha held in the palm of King Suddhodana. The fine clothes, fine food, loving wife and beloved children in the golden palace could not compare with his compassion for the suffering in the world. When he was nineteen years old, he saw an old man stumbling, a sick man groaning in pain, and relatives and friends in a funeral procession wailing. The three painful sights were like thunder that exploded in his heart. That night, he quietly stepped out of the palace, cut off his glory, and embarked on the road to find the way. After six years of asceticism, he suffered from hunger and cold but failed to gain the truth; bathing by the Niranjan River, he sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree for seven days. Finally, he broke through ignorance, understood the reincarnation of cause and effect, and became the Buddha who illuminates all living beings. In the next forty-five years, he traveled to both sides of the Ganges River, using the "Four Noble Truths" and "Eightfold Path" to relieve the suffering of all living beings. From a prince to an enlightened person, from an ascetic to a man of salvation, every step he took was filled with legend. This work will take you through the fog of reincarnation to see how he planted good deeds with fearlessness in his previous life, and how he achieved great success with wisdom in this life, and feel the power that still shocks people's hearts across thousands of years.