Talk:The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha

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The result was: promoted by Kavyansh.Singh (talk) 09:21, 29 July 2022 (UTC)

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Jagdishpur relief, 1872 photo

• ... that about 1,000 years after it was made, a stele of The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha is in worship as of a female Hindu goddess? Source: British Library; *Behrend, Kurt A., Tibet and India: Buddhist Traditions and Transformations, 2014, Metropolitan Museum of Art, ISBN 9781588395498, 1588395499, google books, pages 16 (modern photo) and 17.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Suzie Zuzek

Moved to mainspace by Johnbod (talk). Self-nominated at 22:48, 10 July 2022 (UTC).

• New enough in mainspace and long enough. QPQ present. Hook fact checks out to the British Library page and presumably the other offline sources. No textual issues, but I wanted to personally suggest the use of {{sfn}} for this type of format to use standardized citation templates; this will make it easier to manage footnotes and allows for better linking. Sammi Brie (she/her • t • c) 02:22, 18 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move 24 November 2024

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The result of the move request was: not moved. After a month open and three relists, it seems like there is consensus to not move the article to the proposed name. Two different alternatives were brought up in the process (differing forms of capitalization), but no consensus between those two options; no prejudice against opening another RM for one of those. (closed by non-admin page mover) RachelTensions (talk) 05:04, 24 December 2024 (UTC)

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The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha → Eight Great Events – Per WP:CONCISE, WP:THE. "Eight Great Events" cannot possibly refer to anything else. see also Four Noble Truths ―Howard • 🌽³³ 12:06, 24 November 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:12, 1 December 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Raladic (talk) 16:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. ❯❯❯ Raydann^(Talk) 18:52, 15 December 2024 (UTC)

• Support per nomination, Four Noble Truths, Noble Eightfold Path, etc. Randy Kryn (talk) 12:49, 24 November 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose Eight Great Events already redirects here, which I think is enough. They are not nearly as well known as the Four Noble Truths, as the viewing figures show (1,234 vs 60), & the full name, mostly used in RS i think, helps readers. Johnbod (talk) 17:00, 24 November 2024 (UTC)

  Taking a look at Google scholar, I receive 2 results for "Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha", compared to simply "Eight Great Events" which has 154 results. In every case, "Eight Great Events" refers to the life of Buddha. If there is any other notable person who is described as having specifically "Eight Great Events" in their life, I will withdraw the RM. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 12:52, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

  I'm not saying there is (though there might be). My opposition does not rest on that. Can you find any examples where museums, auction houses etc title their pages on individual objects just as "The Eight Great Events"? I don't think you will be able to. Of course in further commentary just "Eight Great Events" will often be used. That does not mean it is the appropriate title on WP. Johnbod (talk) 17:07, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

  Indeed, I have found such an example of an object:

  • https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/705435

  And these two other museums have individual glossary entries simply titled "Eight Great Events":

  • https://rubinmuseum.org/projecthimalayanart/glossary/eight-great-events/
  • https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/x319221

  In any case, "Eight Great Events" has only ever referred to the events in Gautama Buddha's life, so if anyone is looking up "Eight Great Events" on Wikipedia they will not be looking for anything else. ―Howard • 🌽³³ 17:21, 10 December 2024 (UTC)

You are rather outrageously cherry-picking your google search above. Just taking the first few, what they ACTUALLY SAY is:

1. 1 "the whole slab is a sculptural representation of the eight great events (usually called Miracles) of Buddha's life...." from a 1972 paper called "A Miniature Sculpture from Ceylon Depicting the Eight Great Miracles of the Buddha"
2. 2 Initially talks of "Buddha’s Eight Great Miraculous Events"
3. 3 "Numerous episodes of the Buddha's life are described in Buddhist literature. Among them, the eight great events are the most common, and their representations remain a favorite theme in Buddhist art."
4. 7 "Eight Great Events of the Buddha's Life"
5. 8 "The Eight Great Events of the Buddha's Life"
6. 9 "the Eight Great Events in the Life of the Buddha"

...and so on. These do not support your case at all. Johnbod (talk) 02:20, 11 December 2024 (UTC)

Relisting comment: No consensus yet. ~/Bunnypranav:<ping> 13:12, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

• Support. WP:CONSISTENT with Four Noble Truths. Theparties (talk) 02:56, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

They are not at all the same kind of article, shown by the massively different views they get. The Four Noble Truths are a major statement of doctrine, recognised by all Buddhists everywhere, while The Eight Great Events in the Life of Buddha are a subject in art, appearing only in a certain period (starting some 1,000 years after the Buddha lived) and virtually only in India. There's no comparison. Johnbod (talk) 04:26, 2 December 2024 (UTC)

• • Move to sentence case Eight great events in the life of the Buddha. Theparties (talk) 22:44, 16 December 2024 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Buddhism and WikiProject Visual arts have been notified of this discussion. Raladic (talk) 16:45, 8 December 2024 (UTC)

• Although I recognize "Eight Great Events" and was inclined to support, looking into Johnbod's claims shows that the term is much, much rarer than Four Noble Truths and almost as likely to be "Eight Great Miracles". I would support dropping the definite article per WP:THE. I'm also unsure if "life" should be capitalized and if it should be "the Buddha", i.e., Eight Great Events in the life of the Buddha (which reads more naturally to me). Srnec (talk) 21:32, 16 December 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose dropping the "The" from the title. According to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite or indefinite article at beginning of name), a leading The is used if at least one of the following conditions is met: 1. If a term with a definite article has a different meaning with respect to the same term without the article, the term with the article can be used as the name of a Wikipedia article about that meaning, and the term without the article can be used as the name of a separate Wikipedia article. 2. If the definite or indefinite article would be capitalized in running text, then include it at the beginning of the Wikipedia article name. It seems to me that both of these conditions are met here. That's more obvious with the first than the second, but either one would be sufficient. Andrewa (talk) 06:26, 23 December 2024 (UTC)

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