Buddha was born as his mother grasped the branch of a sal tree, and he achieved Enlightenment beneath the Bodhi tree. |
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Buddha images in temples and in homes are washed and polished and sprinkled with scented lustral water, which also brings merit. |
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Religious ceremonies will include Tak Bat, bathing of the Buddha image and pouring lustral waters on the elders. |
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Buddha challenged the Vedic practice of rigid sacrificial rituals and the practice of caste systems. |
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This custom was not practised during the lifetime of the Buddha and it is not known when it was introduced in south-east Asia. |
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A seated Buddha carved of sandstone in Cave 8 at Yungang also has rounded forms of head and body, similarly wrapped in the monk's robe. |
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Whether they call it soul, spirit, atman or Buddha nature, all the major religions say that men and women have the same essential nature. |
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The roly-poly, laughing baby who, come to think of it, looks remarkably like a little Buddha. |
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Mahatma Gandhi and the Buddha were his chief inspirations and remain so to this day. |
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In many of these compositions, the Buddha is depicted as giving the teaching in an atemporal heavenly paradise. |
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The Buddha was born in the Terai lowlands near the foothills of the Himalayas just inside the borders of modern-day Nepal. |
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One bathroom featured a Thai Buddha while others were hung with paintings by artists such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. |
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The Buddha taught that one should practice loving kindness to all sentient beings. |
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For this reason, the Buddha teaches his students to sit in the full lotus posture with upright minds. |
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Ganesh offers her one of his enchanted lotus flowers so that she might visit Buddha in the sky. |
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First the Buddha practised an exercise in breath control, which involved retaining the breath for longer and longer periods of time. |
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Inside, the statue sits in the west facing east because it is an Amitabha, Buddha of the Western Paradise. |
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And of course Buddhists still use it to symbolise the feet or footprints of the Buddha. |
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The Buddha was originally a wandering teacher who attracted followers through his personal charisma. |
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The Buddha always pointed inwards to the mind, teaching that the effects of such practice could radiate outwards universally. |
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To meditate as the Buddha did, means to look inwardly and clearly see the very highest. |
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Among them was a stone slab pinpointing the spot where the Buddha was born was discovered in the shrine. |
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Buddha Stories is a collection of animal fables that teach the moral principles of Buddhism. |
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The scriptures followed by the trainees are the Mahayana sutras, taught by the Buddha and other Buddhist masters. |
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Shakyamuni taught the sutras to ordinary disciples, in the form of a Buddha. |
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The sutras are the teachings, mostly given by the Buddha, in answer to questions or as direction to the community. |
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Some scholars claim that Pali was the language spoken in the Ujjain region which the Buddha is not recorded as having visited. |
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Theravada Buddhism is based on the tripitaka, original teachings of the Buddha, written in Pali. |
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He built a brick pagoda and kept 3,000 Buddha statues at Sokjjang-sa where he lived. |
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The Buddha of Compassion or His Holiness the Dalai Lama has been reborn thirteen times. |
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Buddha referred to himself as a healer and his teachings as a course of treatment. |
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Chanting is nothing more than an expression of gratitude to Amitabha Buddha and an expression of the chanter's faith. |
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It was for his denial of the doctrine of karma and the efficacy of the religious effort that the Buddha castigated him so severely. |
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On the Southern gateway elaborate carvings showing the birth of Gautama Buddha took my breath away. |
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The villagers support their monks with food, gifts, and offerings to Buddha. |
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Realising that deprivation was getting him nowhere, the Buddha broke his fast and ate. |
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For spiritual nourishment there were halls of worship filled with statues of the Buddha. |
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People still have to learn why and how to support these strict followers of the Buddha. |
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Moving closer, one approaches marble steps that lead up towards the North vihara and there looms the image of a standing Buddha. |
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Thus began the great trance from which he was to emerge on the full moon day of the month of Vesak as a Fully Enlightened One, a Buddha. |
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For about a millennium after the death of the Buddha, Buddhism flourished in India. |
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I feel that if it is able to render good service, especially to the Buddha dharma and Tibet, then my personal life is insignificant. |
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As I enjoy my vermicelli under the watchful eyes of smiling Buddha, I notice that Wan Ker-sin is swallowing, instead of chewing his food. |
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There's also a large bronzy image of Buddha seated in meditation and ornate hooded archways, and sunny colours abound. |
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To someone with the Vajrayana attitude, however, this is the perfect abode of the Buddha. |
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Emi collected the two bags from him and set them on the floor some distance away, near to the wooden Buddha whose empty gaze made him edgy. |
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An important characteristic of the carvings is that they include many unreligious moral stories besides sculptures of the Buddha. |
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Buddha not only gave the teachings in human language but in the language of the gods and the nagas. |
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Specially pertinent to this period is the image of Buddha seated on the mythological, multi-headed serpent or naga. |
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In this case, the Buddha and the bodhisattvas very skillfully condensed the teachings into a very concise form. |
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According to the bodhisattva, the mahayana teachings are the real words of the Buddha. |
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God, Allah, the Buddha, or Shiva requires you to offer a sacrifice, a prayer or a blessing. |
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The shrine of the Sleeping Buddha is reached via a steep set of steps wound through two moon gates. |
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The Buddha discovered that the genuine, true thing we keep looking for isn't there at all. |
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For the period preceding the Buddha we have the Sanskrit texts of the Brahmanical tradition, the Brahmanas and Upanishads. |
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To attain nirvana, Buddha suggested taking a non-extreme course called the Middle Path. |
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He has taken on the look of a Buddha with the years as double chins dominate a roly-poly face. |
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The two brothers and their king also discovered the hill where relics of the previous Buddha had been enshrined. |
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The Buddha had clearly said that his religion depended on bhikkhus, bhikkhunis, upasakas, and upasikas. |
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This occurs when the two bhikkhu brothers question the Buddha on the appropriateness of using local languages for the exposition of the dhamma. |
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Yet he remains a shadow, following behind Buddha rather than being an independent person. |
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Children from the Dutch School took a temple tour and visited the Buddha image carved on a rock cliff. |
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It is the account of the Four Noble Truths that the Buddha discovered when he attained complete enlightenment. |
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Saunders got me a Buddha candle holder, and I got her a bag of jawbreakers, which have turned out to be her favorite candy. |
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After the Buddha attained enlightenment, his disciples took refuge in him and from him. |
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Later, he sent an embassy to his father requesting some relics of the Buddha. |
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The world continues to wait for more and more Buddhas, for Buddha is not a person but is a state of being. |
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Once you find and touch the key, which sits directly under the statue of the Buddha, you will attain paradise. |
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The next important figure in the Tibetan hierarchy is the Panchen Lama, an emanation of the Buddha Amitbbha. |
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In 531 BC, after a life of searching, Sakyamuni attained the state of Nirvana and became a Buddha. |
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In the Mahyna Buddhist tradition, Gautama Buddha was preceded by other Buddhas in other ages. |
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The primary Buddha is Vairocana, the Sun Buddha, of whom all other Buddhas and divine beings are emanations. |
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Indeed, the distinction between a Buddha and an advanced bodhisattva becomes extremely blurred. |
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A Buddha works so that others, too, may recognize sunyata, and may themselves become Buddhas. |
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The Wat Pho temple is known for its 46 meter long statue of reclining Buddha and the largest collection of Buddhas in the country. |
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Buddhism would have a western flavour in the west while keeping to the teachings of the Buddha. |
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It's like God and Buddha just heaped bountiful blessings on every snarky blogger in the world. |
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So we went on our merry way, stopping at Bangkok City Hall, and a tiny temple with a lucky fat Buddha. |
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The appeal of wandering mendicant religious teachers like the Buddha lay partly in the contrast between their message and that of the Brahmans. |
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Its benign silhouette squats against the southern sky like some fat Buddha. |
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The Buddha sculptures and even the bricks on the ground are carved with real gold. |
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The largest, carved in the third century AD, is thought to be the world's tallest standing Buddha. |
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We are unbelievably fortunate to have met the Dharma and to have the opportunity to do recitation and meditation on the Compassion Buddha. |
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Only a few fragments of the original statue survive, and the present hall and central Buddha are reconstructions from the Edo period. |
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The day includes the ceremonial watering of banyan trees to commemorate the banyan tree under which Buddha sat when he attained enlightenment. |
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At the ripe old age of eighty Buddha prepared his disciples for his death and quietly died at night. |
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Although later Mahayana Buddhism virtually made the Buddha himself into a god, the historical Gautama Buddha never mentioned God. |
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The Buddha sits under the tree of life to achieve nirvana via the eightfold path. |
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Casually he stuck the incense in a brass bowl in front of a plastic Buddha, and drew on his cigarette. |
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According to a Lamaistic legend, Buddha himself gave this instrument to the Dragon King as a present. |
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The Buddha is not a god but the place teems with statues and altars to him. |
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In another essay, he described his experience at a Buddhist monastery that housed a reliquary said to contain a bone of the Buddha. |
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But Buddha was of the renunciative path so that may have contributed to his split from Hinduism. |
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Enter Buddhism in the search box for a set of links to resources, including artefacts such as prayer wheels, a bell and Buddha statues. |
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The most well-known avatars are Rama, Krishna, who destroyed the wicked and established a new order, Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, and Kalki. |
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It still permits pilgrimages to a spring where Tuvinians pitch tents, honor Buddha, and conduct a multiweek healing ritual in the high reaches of the reserve. |
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From aqua Buddha to Wikileaks, 2010 gave us a bounty of new words for our political vocabulary. |
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But the Buddha condemned both extreme luxury and extreme poverty as obstacles to enlightenment. |
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He so much embodied the ancient teachings of the Buddha, yet insisted on a completely inclusive, secular, contemporary approach. |
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The entire surface of the gateways is covered with bas-reliefs representing scenes from the life of Gautama Buddha, stories from the Jatakas, along with decorative elements. |
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Its questionability is supported by the fact that the Buddha urged that one should refrain from taking any such ontological position with regard to the self or of the world. |
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The Buddha, the jewel in the lotus himself, didn't start out in the mud. |
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A Bodhisattva is a person who's not yet become a Buddha but is on the way. |
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Buddha triad is a group of Buddhas or a Buddha and Bodhisattvas. |
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You see, whenever a Buddha, a fully enlightened soul, sets his foot on the indra-keela of a city with a firm purpose in mind, miracles occur, it is said. |
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The walls of temples were carved with images of Portuguese visitors and Arab traders, of Brahmins honouring the Buddha and Buddhists worshipping Hindu deities. |
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A temple representative said yesterday that wooden tablets were found inside the statue of the Vairocana, or cosmic, Buddha while the icon was being regilded. |
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The Amida hall, blending the secular with the religious, houses one or more Buddha images within a structure resembling the mansions of the nobility. |
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The earliest representation of the Buddha in the exhibition is a breathtakingly beautiful import from Gandhara with its echo of Hellenistic representationalism. |
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It is a kind of gnosis, or direct apprehension of truth, which deepens over time and eventually reaches full maturity in the complete awakening experienced by the Buddha. |
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Undertaking religious pilgrimage is a seen as a meritorious practice since it focuses the mind on places associated with the Buddha, saintly people, or holy objects. |
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Sitting in the centre of Wanfuge, the largest pavilion, is a 26-metre statue of Maitreya, Buddha of the Future, carved out of a single trunk of a white sandalwood tree. |
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The incidence between the ferocious elephant Nalagiri and the Buddha is symbolic and the intervening time is the comprehension of the teller and the listener. |
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Candles, seashells, incense and a miniature Buddha were among the offerings left on the makeshift altar at the base of the tree. |
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It is completely dark, not a flicker of light to guide you, so you walk and, with your right hand, feel along the wall trying to find the key to Buddha. |
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The Buddha taught three different approaches on three separate occasions. |
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Among the terracottas found there, were Buddha heads, torsos of bodies and pieces of drapery belongings to Buddha figures of monks and laymen and women profusely decorated. |
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Having good intentions, not harming others, avoiding evil actions and making the heart and mind pure in thought were among the truths spoken by the Buddha. |
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Also on display and sale will be Bhutanese handicrafts like prayer bells, traditional woven textiles, stupas and gold plated statues of the Buddha. |
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Thus, the nagas, who in Buddhist mythology protected Buddha before his enlightenment by shooting down lightning bolts aimed at him, guard the sacred temple. |
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This is the unfailing, unmistaken speech of the perfectly enlightened Buddha, which can enable us to attain complete enlightenment in one lifetime. |
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Even when his bosom friend, Govinda, chooses to become a disciple of Lord Buddha whom both meet, Sidhartha decides to continue his journey in search of truth and realisation. |
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In so far as the particular Zen follower is adequately socialized into the given group, he cannot but see the Master as expressing the Mind of the Buddha. |
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Buddhists have always used the swastika as a symbol of resignation, and Buddha is to this day depicted with the symbol all over his chest, arms and the soles of his feet. |
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Transcendental concepts like Buddhahood and nirvana may well represent our ultimate goal, but we will never become a Buddha by ignoring our immediate human condition. |
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One of the most important festivals of all is Vesak at the full moon in May when the birth, enlightenment and decease of the Buddha are remembered. |
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According to legend, those who pray to this Katpawi Buddha, on the first and fifteenth full days of each month on the lunar calendar, will achieve their desires. |
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Experience the ancient mystical city of Ho Chi-Minh and its Eastern traditions, Buddha temples, towering pagodas and colorful oriental river markets. |
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Angkor Vat's new emphasis on ornamentation is seen in the decorative carving of the serpent's heads and the finely incised headdress of the Buddha. |
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Nhat Hanh keeps an image of Jesus next to the Buddha on the altar in his hermitage in France where, in a place called Plum Village, he maintains a meditation center. |
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It seems in the 9th century there was a Buddhist monastery in the spot where the Santi stupa, built in 1972 by the Kalinga Nippon Buddha Sangha, is now situated. |
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It is the path that was first taught more than 2,500 years ago by the Buddha Shakyamuni, who succeeded in achieving complete realization of perfect wisdom and compassion. |
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Prayers were conducted for the spread of the Buddha dharma, for the happiness of all sentient beings, and for a long and successful life of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. |
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People circled around the pagodas with the wish to be like Buddha himself. |
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You will be incarnated as a human to be a Buddha and save all beings. |
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There will be a statue of Buddha, candles, and an incense burner. |
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Similarly the Buddha taught that human individuals are not to be seen as isolated from each other, but as conjoined to each other in a weighty and consequential relationship. |
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Didn't the Buddha divide people into Aryans and the profane essentially saying that those who are Aryan follow the light and those who are profane follow the evil one? |
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Still, however, a Buddhist will prostrate himself and bow his head to the floor three times in front of a Buddha image or a monk as a sign of respect. |
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Such lists ordinarily rank statues and paintings in a canonical hierarchy, beginning with icons of the Buddha class, followed by bodhisattva, deva, and other lesser deities. |
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In contrast to this dominant view the Buddha sought to proclaim the dhamma universally once he had resolved the problem whether to proclaim it at all. |
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Even Mahavira and Buddha agreed that there could be no final answers to some of the difficult questions of cosmology, ontology, theology, and eschatology. |
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The former is evident in delicate, soft works such as Shakyamuni I, 2012, in which the Buddha appears to float amidst a muted, dream-like space. |
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The flower-exchange tradition comes from an old Buddhist story about Shakyamuni Buddha, several lifetimes Before he became a Buddha. |
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After Buddha Shakyamuni passed into Mahaparinirvana, his relics were divided among his disciples and Buddhist kingdoms. |
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The gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha at a height of 169 at a height of 169 feet is clearly visible today. |
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His Holiness the Dalia Lama has contributed to the relics of the historical Buddha. |
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The key feature of the zone is the three sided statue of Guan Yin Buddha, Buddhist Temples, spectacular landscape and sea views. |
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Ambedkar clearly distinguished Brahminic Vedic Hinduism from the Buddhism in his book Buddha and His Dhamma. |
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He apologizes to Mike, who is sitting there like a serene Buddha. |
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In Buddhist mythology, Gautama Buddha was assailed by the demon Mara when meditating under the sacred Bo tree. |
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The texts were part of the Tripitakas, and many versions appeared thereafter claiming to be the words of the Buddha. |
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The temple and the Bodhi tree, under which Lord Buddha is believed to have attained enlightenment, did not suffer any damage in the blasts. |
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The first Buddhist canonical texts, were likely written down in Sri Lanka, about 400 years after the Buddha died. |
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Like Buddha, Vardhamana Mahavira, who lived in the 6th century BC, left his family home to wander the valley of the Ganges. |
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Buddhism declined, though many of its ideas, and even the Buddha himself, were absorbed into certain Brahmanical traditions. |
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We come to wonder about the position of the Buddha in the conflict between Magadha and the Vajjis. |
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This communal monastic lifestyle grew out of the lifestyle of earlier sects of wandering ascetics, some of whom the Buddha had studied under. |
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The Buddha was once warned not to travel down a certain road because a dangerous and violent bandit lived down there. |
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As the Buddha trusted the responsibility on the four groups of Buddhists namely the bhikkhus, bhikkhunis, laymen and laywomen equally. |
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Among the 32 main characteristics it is mentioned that Buddha has blue eyes. |
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It is noteworthy that one Thanka painting from Tibet which has 16 various life incidences of Buddha. |
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At his death, the Buddha is famously believed to have told his disciples to follow no leader. |
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An extensive and colorful physical description of the Buddha has been laid down in scriptures. |
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When women came to him seeking to live the renunciate life, the Buddha allowed them to go forth in his religion. |
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It is believed that a cobra saved the life of Lord Buddha and another protected the Jain Tirthankara Parshwanath. |
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These biblical precepts are not limiting but promote comparisons between Koheleth and Buddha, among others. |
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Then, being restrained by the Buddha, Mahapajapati Gotami paid homage with her head at the Buddha's feet, circumambulated him thrice and left. |
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From the wood of the champac the images of Buddha are carved for the temples. |
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Which is why Buddha Belly, a charming and tiny new eatery in Kemps Corner comes as a breath of fresh air. |
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The Basket of Suttas, Sutta Pitaka, contains over 10,000 suttas of the Buddha or in some cases, his most authoritative disciples. |
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Buddhists would probably admit that this included all Arahants, as differing from a Buddha only in degree of powers and attainments. |
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Iron Buddha tea is the most common accompaniment, but other teas such as pu'er and oolong are also common. |
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Thai people are so lucky to have much exposure to the Buddha and Arahants by seeing their relics which is very unusual in Malaysia. |
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Likewise, the discourses of the Buddha found in the Jatakas use the fable as a social, philosophical and moral narrative. |
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The incident occurred when the country celebrated Wesak or Vesak, the commemoration of the birth, enlightenment and the death of Lord Buddha. |
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After this, the Buddha ate his last meal, which he had received as an offering from a blacksmith named Cunda. |
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He wears a wrinkled polo shirt that does little to disguise his bulging Buddha belly. |
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The official said that Vesak, the birth anniversary of the Buddha, was observed recently at the Lankan missions in the Kingdom. |
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In the fifth vassana, the Buddha was staying at Mahavana near Vesali when he heard news of the impending death of his father. |
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The Buddha spent the next three seasons at Veluvana Bamboo Grove monastery in Rajagaha, the capital of Magadha. |
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Buddha has categorically stated that there is no soul, a concept called anatta in the ancient language in which Buddha's teachings were recorded. |
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After this, the Buddha kept a promise to travel to Rajagaha, capital of Magadha, to visit King Bimbisara. |
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The Ven. U Warthawa knelt down in the temple of the monastery to worship before the image of the Buddha. |
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Withdrawn as a Buddha he sat, watching the alien world from his perch in the absolute. |
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Buddha's Birthday is called Buddha Purnima in Nepal, Bangladesh, and India as he is believed to have been born on a full moon day. |
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During this period, Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, lived much of his life in Magadha kingdom. |
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Buddha found a Middle Way that ameliorated the extreme asceticism found in the Sramana religions. |
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Shigatse is home to Tashilhunpo Monastery, seat of the Panchen Lama, and home to a towering statue of the Maitreya Buddha. |
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In Pure Land Buddhism, devotion to the Buddha Amitabha is the main practice. |
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At the centre is a five-pronged vajra draped and bound with a coloured silk scarf, representing one of the Five Buddha wisdoms or activities. |
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Buddha added a new focus and interpretation, particularly through the Four Dhyanas methodology, in which mindfulness is maintained. |
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The most dramatic and best preserved scenes, however, show two Jataka stories of the former lives of the Buddha. |
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The Buddha succeeded when the King and all his soldiers failed to eliminate the murderer by force. |
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These methodologies likely incorporate what existed before the Buddha as well as those first developed within Buddhism. |
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Now, as the Buddha, he spent the rest of his life teaching the Dharma he had discovered, and died at the age of 80 in Kushinagar, India. |
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One of the most important duties of the king was to build a temple or a Buddha statue as a symbol of prosperity and peace. |
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What is worse, according to Han Yu, some Confucianists are persuaded that Confucius is the student of Laozi and Buddha. |
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A sapling of the Bodhi Tree under which the Buddha attained enlightenment was brought to Sri Lanka during the same time. |
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Kala Wewa and the Avukana Buddha statue were built during the reign of Dhatusena. |
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Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway and Flying Buddha imprints. |
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In the ancient Gnostic sect of Manichaeism, the Buddha is listed among the prophets who preached the word of God before Mani. |
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The Theravada school does not treat the Mahayana Sutras as authoritative or authentic teachings of the Buddha. |
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The walls of the museum depicted the major ten jatakas, the previous lives of the Buddha. |
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Josaphat appears, Barlaam and Josaphat, is based on the life of the Buddha. |
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These artistic influences can be seen in the development of Buddhism where, for instance, Buddha was first depicted as human in the Kushan period. |
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Paramahansa Yogananda, an Indian guru who introduced yoga to the West, ranked Francis with Buddha and Jesus in his multicreed pantheon of spiritual guides. |
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Witness also the hundreds of Jataka stories that recount past lives of the Buddha and his companions, which are taken literally by some Buddhists. |
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Major infrastructure and tourist projects also began under Sir Tsang's second term, including the Ngong Ping Cable Car, Tian Tan Buddha and the West Kowloon Cultural District. |
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The exotic dining space, which opened in 2002, incorporates warm colors, casual booths, and a seven-foot Balinesian Buddha to create a truly unique dining experience. |
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This example from Western Tibet features the central Buddha of Vajrayana Buddhism sitting in his traditional lotus position forming the teaching mudra. |
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For Babbitt then, as for Buddha, there was the cosmic and the supercosmic. |
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The Theravada tradition traces its roots to the words of the Buddha preserved in the Pali Canon, and considers itself to be the more orthodox form of Buddhism. |
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He is the demon that tempted Gautama Buddha by trying to seduce him with the vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters. |
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The Mahayana sutras are a very broad genre of Buddhist scriptures that the Mahayana Buddhist tradition holds are original teachings of the Buddha. |
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In the Pali Canon, the Buddha uses many Brahmanical devices. |
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Mahakasyapa was chosen by the sangha to be the chairman of the First Buddhist Council, with the two chief disciples Maudgalyayana and Sariputta having died before the Buddha. |
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The Buddha then asked all the attendant Bhikkhus to clarify any doubts or questions they had and cleared them all in a way which others could not do. |
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Buddhist texts record that the Buddha was reluctant to ordain women. |
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In fact, he isn't strictly speaking the Buddha at all but a Chinese deity called Budai, Hotei in Japanese, who represents contentment and good fortune. |
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The Buddha intended to visit Asita, and his former teachers, Alara Kalama and Udaka Ramaputta, to explain his findings, but they had already died. |
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On our next visit, three years later, on our way by bus to the temple district of Kyoto, a straphanger told me that when he died he would be the Buddha. |
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This has been particularly popular in Vajrayana meditative traditions, but also found in Mahayana and Theravada traditions, particularly in temples and with Buddha image. |
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The life of Gautama Buddha was mainly associated with these four kingdoms. |
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Buddhism is an religion attributed to the teachings of Buddha. |
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In Thailand and Laos, sculpture was mainly of Buddha images, often gilded, both large for temples and monasteries, and small figurines for private homes. |
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As the number of members within the Sangha increased, it became costly so that only the larger cities were able to afford having the Buddha and his disciples visit. |
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These people moved through India and beyond to spread the ideas of Buddha. |
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The Bodhi tree is also the name given to the tree under which Gautama Siddhartha, the historical Buddha, sat on the night he attained enlightenment. |
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The inscription praises Buddha and describes the fleet's donations to the famous Tenavarai Nayanar temple of Tondeswaram frequented by both Hindus and Buddhists. |
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They range from early examples of the 8th and 9th centuries, such as the brass Crowned Buddha Shakyamuni from Gilgit and an intricately carved wooden travelling shrine. |
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Matthew Sayers, on the other hand, pours cold water on the received wisdom that the Brahmanical association with the region predated the life of the Buddha. |
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Clyde AuditoriumTHIS was a night about the music and an excellent array of musicians, with band leader Holland holding it all together like a beaming boogie-woogie Buddha. |
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Computer engineering firm Delcam is working on providing images from which building blocks for the giant Buddha, known as the Maitreya Project, can be constructed. |
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It kicked off at Drepung Monastery, the largest monastery of Tibetan Buddhism's Gelug Sect, where a 40-meter-long thangka painting of the Buddha was exhibited. |
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For example, in Japan, Buddhism, mixed with Shinto, which worships deities called kami, created a tradition which prays to the deities of Shinto as a form of Buddha. |
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On the next panel we see the Buddha in meditation, seated in a closely fitting niche where the trilobed arch almost encircles the head and shoulders of the figure. |
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