{"date":"October 27","id":"10-27","intro":["Siddhartha Gautama, who became the god Buddha, renounced the world and spent seven years in meditation. Then one day, while sitting under a fig tree, he became inspired with exalted and sublime conceptions of life and death. The rest of his life was spent in teaching and converting mankind."],"minutes":22,"readings":[{"author":"","end":674,"start":661,"volume":45,"work":"Buddhist Writings"}],"slug":"october-27","status":"proofread","title":"Fruit of Seven Years’ Silence","url":"/harvard-classics/october-27/","words":4398}