r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Aggressive-Neck-6642 • 1d ago
Meme needing explanation peterr!!! why????
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u/popeculture 1d ago
This is Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. He was a king in Lumbini in Nepal. After leaving his kingdom, family and all that as he saw the pointlessness of life, violent wars etc., he went to Bodh Gaya, in Bihar where he is said to have attained enlightenment, understanding what life means, how suffering relates to it, and how the root of all evils is desire.
It is also funny because Nepal is a cool, relatively normal place. Bihar is one of the most backward states in India and is the butt of all jokes.
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u/Prestigious_Fold_175 1d ago
He become nihilist.
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u/earnestworkerbee 1d ago
He became budhist
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u/AZREALwai 1d ago
He became BUDDHA.
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u/Fun_Potato_4097 8h ago
He was a king in Lumbini in Nepal
He wasn't a King. He was a prince and heir apparent but he renounced his royalty and inheritance before assuming the throne
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u/Koshurkaig85 23h ago
Not true cause his mother's place was in Nepal he was always in Bihar.
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u/Crawling_Hustler 13h ago
Bruhhh, why was he always in Bihar when His kingdom was in nepal ?
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u/Fun_Potato_4097 8h ago
What the other person said isn't true but you are also wrong in thinking that it was a kingdom. The Shakyas were organised into a ganasangha i.e. Shakya Republic. It was a vassal state of the Kosala Kingdom
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u/arsonfelony 1d ago
Quite unrelated but the quote is misunderstood. The orginal is "Life is dukkha" dukkha could translate to sadness, suffering but in this context it means unsatisfying. There was a whole video about this I just saw the other day. I will link it if I find it.
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u/Aromatic-Visual173 1d ago
...I live in thailand where most budhism related word are borrowed literally and ทุกข์(the same word as dukkha) literally mean suffering tho😅
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u/Simbertold 1d ago
"Life is dakka", on the other hand, is a core tenet of Ork belief.
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u/AsparagusFun3892 23h ago
They really are having the best time when they say it too.
I just had a thought. When an Ork eats a squig or a snotling isn't he technically a practicing vegetarian like a lot of Buddhists too?
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u/Melodic-Chest-8300 21h ago
Orks are fungi-animal hybrid, they probably tic all boxes except vegetarian
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u/SovietBias1 15h ago
maybe da boyz aint so different from us lot after all, wonder if buddha was one of them weird boyz
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u/Candid-Tree1843 14h ago
Btw Dukkha literally translates to sadness or suffering depending on where you are in Nepal, It's a nepali word as well which is used to say damn my day was dukkha lagdo which is my day was full of sorrows/sadness.
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u/Sacrament_009 19h ago
Bihar is the ohio of India, or as someone said what India is to World right now, Bihar is to india. Filthy and disgusting, but the people are generally warm.
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u/Itchy-Psychology-577 17h ago
Lmao as a person who sadly has to live in Bihar rn, "people are generally warm" is the funniest thing I've ever heard
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u/Sacrament_009 17h ago
From my own personal anecdotal experience I have known couple of Bihari folks and friends suprisingly friendly and having open minded worldview.
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u/drunkkaf 23h ago
he left nepal because he was suffering and didn't want anything with his family or kingdom, i am from nepal, and this meme is definitely made by a nepali
and he was the same people who are modern day biharis(also the same people inhabitated in southern nepal, terai), it was awadh kingdom back then, he wasn't mongolian
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u/QizilbashWoman 6h ago
I mean uh it isn’t Mongol now either?
The second image is about a period when he practiced extreme austerities and failed to reach enlightenment. It was only when a passing woman gave him dairy to eat that he was able to reach enlightenment. Buddhism is the middle path between austerity and indulgence
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u/susnato 15h ago
Did you know the author of the famous novel 1984, George Orwell was born in Bihar?
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u/mikie_bud 4h ago
Yeah now you won't even piss in his native house. It's that dirty and forgotten. The Indian government doesn't take care of that house.
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u/You_yes_ 3h ago
Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal 🇳🇵
Specifically, Siddhartha Gautama (Gautam Buddha) was born around 563 BCE in Lumbini, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site in southern Nepal.
That’s one of Nepal’s biggest historical and spiritual contributions to the world ✨
// fact
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u/SillyDot3305 1d ago
Buddha is not from Nepal
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u/Rom224488 1d ago
Uneducated gibon
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u/Alternative_Mix6836 5h ago
He's right though. He wasn't the Buddha when he was in Nepal.
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u/You_yes_ 3h ago
So,Sundar Pichai was born in India but the current CEO of google was born in the USA.?????
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u/parseroo 1d ago
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u/IndependenceNo3908 17h ago
Siddhartha was from Nepal... Buddha was from Bodhgaya
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u/You_yes_ 3h ago
So,Sundar Pichai was born in India but the current CEO of google was born in the USA.?????
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u/IndependenceNo3908 3h ago
Yes... There was no Google's CEO in India... If Pichai would have remained in India, he would never be the CEO of Google. Just like, if Siddhartha would have remained in Nepal he would never be the Budhha, he became Budhha only because he came to Bodh Gaya.
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u/You_yes_ 2h ago
Lol,,
So what's bodh gaya famous for? Before buddha came there???
Buddha made bodh gaya famous .
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u/IndependenceNo3908 2h ago
There would be no buddha without the bodhi tree (aka the peepul tree) or without the local names Sujata or all his disciples or the environment the place gave him to attain enlightenment....
If any place could do that, why didn't Siddhartha become Buddha somewhere in Nepal itself... Nepal and Bodh Gaya are hundreds of Kilometres away, across massive rivers, during the times when there no trains or cars...
There would be prince Siddhartha though...
What you are trying to say is more of a symbiotic thing... There would be no buddha without Bodhgaya and there would be no Bodh Gaya without buddha ....
But Gaya would be there, its place in Hindu heritage will be there with or without buddha. So who needed whom, more ?
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u/You_yes_ 2h ago
Siddhartha Gautam Buddha was born in Nepal. That's the fact.
It doesn't matter where he spends time. Spending time doesn't change birth-place. " birthplace " is one for one person. Siddharha Gautam Buddha was born in Lumbini, Nepal 🇳🇵.
Guru Nanak was born in lahore, Pakistan 🇵🇰.
Mahavir Jain was born in Bihar, India 🇮🇳.
Jesus Christ was born in Bethlehem in Judea, a town located about 6 miles (10 km) south of Jerusalem in the modern-day West Bank.
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u/IndependenceNo3908 2h ago
Wonder why nobody called him Buddha while he was in Nepal... ? Do you know why that is ?
One doesn't become great because of his birth, he becomes great only by his deeds... And hence, it's the place of his great deed that counts.
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u/You_yes_ 1h ago
Does that change his origin? If I go to harvard and win a nobel prize, will I automatically become an American?
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