However, Buddha said that the purity of his heart was so great that, " Should Ananda die without being fully liberated ; he would be king of the gods seven times because of the purity of his heart, or be king of the Indian subcontinent seven times.

Upon his return, the Buddha says, among other things, that Pasenadi is " a friend of virtue, acquainted with virtue, intimate with virtue ", while the opposite is said of the aggressor, King Ajatasattu.

Buddha said " Love all, so that you may not wish to kill any " This is a positive way of stating the principle of Ahimsa.

In the Buddhist tradition, it is said that the Buddha compared these four truths to the footprints of an elephant: just as the footprints of all the other animals can fit within the footprint of an elephant, in the same way, all of the teachings of the Buddha are contained within the teachings on the four noble truths.

So the Buddha said that unless we understand this and see how pervasive dissatisfaction or duhkha is, it is impossible for us to start looking for real happiness.

During the rule of the 7th Kirat King Jitedasti, Lord Gautam Buddha is said to have come to the valley with his several disciples and to have visited holy places of Swayambhu, Guheswari, etc., and to have preached his religious teaching.

Buddha and his disciple Ananda are said to have visited the Kathmandu Valley and stayed for some time in Patan.

But before entering nirvana, the Buddha said his disciples should take the precepts as their teacher, so few ceremonies are held for partial precept undertaking.

" During the time of Gautama Buddha the city was called Ayojjhā in Pali and Ayodhyā in Sanskrit, though this city was said to be on the River Ganges ( Pheṇāpiṇḍūpama Sutta-SN 22. 95 ).

However, Buddha pointed out to them that they do not know the whole extent of the universe ( he said they have no knowledge of some of the highest heavens ), and further, the spiritual power of the Buddha was greater than the spiritual power of these gods who thought they created the world.

The Buddha said ( in DN1-the Brahmajala Sutta or The Net of Views ) that their view of being the creator of the world is a misconception, and that these Brahma-gods actually have a cause which lead their origination ( taking birth as a Brahma-god ).

In his hagiographic spiritual biography Li Hongzhi is said to have been taught ways of " cultivation practice " by several masters of the Buddhist and Daoist traditions, including Quan Jue, the 10th Heir to the Great Law of the Buddha School, a Taoist master from age eight to twelve, and a master of the Great Way School with the Taoist alias of True Taoist from the Changbai Mountains.

" And Gautama Siddhartha, the Buddha, once said " Three things cannot long stay hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth ".

It is said that four weeks after Śākyamuni Buddha began meditating under the Bodhi tree, the heavens darkened for seven days, and a prodigious rain descended.

Lord Buddha is said to be a descendant of Sage Angirasa in many Buddhist texts.

* Pokhran-I ( Smiling Buddha ): On 18 May 1974 India detonated an 8 Kiloton nuclear device at Pokhran Test Range becoming the first nation to become nuclear capable outside the five permanent members of United Nations Security Council as well as dragging Pakistan along with it into a nuclear arms race with the Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto swearing to reciprocate India .< ref > The Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Munir Ahmed Khan said that the test would force Pakistan to test its own nuclear bomb.

The Buddha himself expressly disavowed any special divine status or inspiration, and said that anyone, anywhere could achieve all the insight that he had.

Then it was said that she told the Buddha to make an offering with his clergy on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, a virtuous act that would free seven generations of people from being hungry ghosts in Hell as well as people reborn as lower animals.

In the Sutta Nipata, the Buddha is recorded as having said the following about selling luck:

It is said that the impressive personal qualities of the fully enlightened Buddha are derived from the fact that he was fully aligned with this already-existing primordial nature.

The attainment of nirvanic liberation ( mokṣa ), by contrast with empty or selfless phenomena, is said to open up a realm of " utter bliss, joy, permanence, stability, eternity ", in which the Buddha is " fully peaceful " and " immovable " ( acala ) like a mountain.

Nikaya At one time in Savatthi, the venerable Radha seated himself and asked of the Blessed Lord Buddha: “ Anatta, anatta I hear said, Venerable.

If we study the Four Noble Truths with the help of these references and explanations, we get a fairly good and accurate account of the essential teachings of the Buddha according to the original texts.

The Buddhists have always maintained that during the time of Buddha and Mahavira ( who, according to the Pali canon, were contemporaries ), Jainism was already an ancient, deeply entrenched faith and culture there.

* 949 BC Mahaparinirvana of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni Siddharta, according to far eastern schools of Buddhism.

Since, according to the learned researches of Sir William Jones, Odin and Buddha are probably the same person, it is curious to see the names of Bondvar, Wodansdag, and Votan designating in India, Scandinavia, and in Mexico the day of a brief period.

And according to Demerath ( 2001: 138 ), 41 % do not believe in God, and 55 % do not believe in Buddha.

In Nichiren Shoshu, “ Nichiren Daishonin ” is the Buddha of time without beginning ( kuon ganjo ), while according to SGI teachings, the Buddha of time without beginning is the manifestation of the state of Buddhahood Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo: “ The original Buddha whose life is without beginning or end is nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo Thus Come One ”.

However, minor improvements have been effected after its first erection during Rama I's reign ; wood-work of the temple was replaced by King Rama III and King Chulalongkorn ; during King Mongkut's reign, the elegant doors and windows and the copper plates on the floor were additions, Rama III refurbished the wall painting ( indicative of the universe according to Buddhist cosmology ) and several frescoes that display the various stages of the Buddha's life ; three chambers were added on the western side by King Mongkut ; in the chamber known as ' Phra Kromanusorn ' at the northern end, images of Buddha have been installed in honour of the kings of Ayudya ; and in the 19th century, In Khong, a famous painter executed the wall murals.

* c. 490 – 410 BCE: Life of the Buddha, according to recent research.

* 120 BCE: The Chinese Emperor Han Wudi ( 156 – 87 BCE ) receives two golden statues of the Buddha, according to inscriptions in the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang.

In fact, a statement by the Buddha that nibbana is atta or that it is anatta is nowhere to be found in the Canon, and according to Nanavira Thera, both statements regarding nibbana from the perspective of the arahant are inconsistent with statements he did make.

The kinkaku-ji grounds were built according to descriptions of the Western Paradise of the Buddha Amida, intending to illustrate a harmony between heaven and earth.

Taking refuge in the Three Jewels is central to Buddhist lay and monastic ordination ceremonies, as originated by Gautama Buddha, according to the scriptures.

Although the Buddha preached that " the path to the supreme goal of the holy life is made known only in his own teaching ", according to Bhikkhu Boddhi, Buddhists have nevertheless shown significant tolerance for other religions: " Buddhist tolerance springs from the recognition that the dispositions and spiritual needs of human beings are too vastly diverse to be encompassed by any single teaching, and thus that these needs will naturally find expression in a wide variety of religious forms.

The Twelve Vows of the Medicine Buddha upon attaining Enlightenment, according to the Medicine Buddha Sutra are:

Three months after the passing of Buddha, according to scriptures ( see Cullavagga XI. 1 ff ), the first council was held at Rajagaha by some of his disciples who had attained arahantship ( enlightenment ).

Any religion which follows ( parts of ) the fundamentals of this system has, according to the teachings of Buddha, good aspects to the extent it accords with this system.

The Digital Dictionary of Buddhism notes that rendering the Chinese term fangbian into English as ' skillful ' or as ' expedient ' is often difficult, because the connotations shift according to the context as ( 1 ) the teaching being something to marvel at — the fact that the Buddha can present these difficult truths in everyday language ( thus, skillful ), yet that ( 2 ) they are teachings of a lower order as compared to the ultimate truth, and are far removed from reflecting reality, and are a kind of ' stopgap ' measure ( thus, expedient ).

Also, according to the legends of these institutions, “ the lineage of blind biwa layers ultimately is traced to … a blind disciple of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, called Ganjutsu Sonja ”.

Prince Sattva was one of the previous incarnations of Gautama Buddha, according to a jataka story.

For instance, according to SN 46. 37, the Buddha stated:

In terms of gaining insight into and overcoming the Five Hindrances, according to the Satipatthana Sutta, the Buddha proclaimed: