Easter 5 | Jn 15:1-8 The Buddha died like any other human being. When I arrived in Kushinigar several years ago, the place where he died, I didn’t really know the story. When I read it, on plaque after plaque in the various stops along the Via Delorosa of the Buddha’s last day, I was shocked. It seemed so…normal, so mundane, even undignified. According to the story, he was served a delicious meal, but either the meat had gone rancid or a mushroom was poisonous—accounts differ