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Four sights

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According to accounts of Gautama Buddha's life, the four sights were his inspiration to become a monk at the age of 29: an old crippled man (old age), a diseased man (illness), a decaying corpse (death), and finally an ascetic (A person who seeks the end to suffering).

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