1. Allusion "Bodhgaya: Where the Buddha Received Enlightenment The first step on the road to 'Enlightenment' was the transformation of the young prince into Gautama, the ascetic: a transformation effected when Siddhartha changed his royal robes and rich ornaments for the old and tattered clothes of a passing hunter and cut off his hair to show that h e had become a samana. The feast of the hair' is a popular motif in Buddhist sculpture though …showed first 75 words of 3513 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3513 total…the calm, delicate, impenetrable, perhaps gracious, perhaps mocking, wise, thousand-fold smile of Gotama, the Buddha, as he perceived it with awe a hundred times. It was such a manner, Govinda knew, that the Perfect One smiled."# In this passage the author describes unity, which is an abstract noun that is very hard to describe in words. He used his words to show how the world is in simultaneous unity, or how the world has nirvana.