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Buddhist monks meditating in the caves of Dambulla at that time provided the exiled king protection from his enemies.
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Buddhist and monks
The Prime Minister paid his respects to the Buddhist monks, strode rapidly among the houses, joked with the local soldiery, and made a speech.
* 1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.
Buddhist monks and nuns of most traditions are expected to refrain from all sexual activity and take vows of celibacy ; lay people, however, are not expected to refrain from any specific form of sexual activity, and there is no concept of sinfulness attached to sex.
* 1948 – A Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
Since the beginnings of the Buddhist community, monks and nuns have had to commit themselves to Five Precepts of moral conduct.
Buddhist monks should avoid cutting or burning trees, because some sentient beings rely on them.
Subsequently, ninety percent of Buddhist monks / clerics married.
Buddhist vinaya for monks and nuns prohibits harming of plants.
Some of these Buddhist vegetarian chefs are in the many monasteries which serve wu hun and mock-meat ( also known as ' meat analogues ') dishes to the monks and visitors ( including non-Buddhists who often stay for a few hours or days, to Buddhists who are not monks, but staying overnight for anywhere up to weeks or months ).
Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.
East and Central Asian Buddhist monks are recorded as having visited the kingdom.
The wealth of manuscripts probably written on screwpine leaves that Maldivian monks in their Buddhist monasteries must have produced was either burnt or otherwise so thoroughly eliminated that it has disappeared without leaving any trace.
The origin of the word is from Ancient Greek, and the idea originally related to Buddhist monks in 550 BC.
The Sangha or community of ordained Buddhist bhikkhus ( similar to monks ) and original bhikkhunis ( similar to nuns ) was founded by Gautama Buddha during his lifetime over 2500 years ago.
The transmigration of souls became a Manichaean belief, and the quadripartite structure of the Manichaean community, divided between male and female monks ( the " elect ") and lay followers ( the " hearers ") who supported them, appears to be based on that of the Buddhist sangha.
In the Muromachi era, Buddhist monks discovered that soybeans could be ground into a paste, spawning new cooking methods using miso to flavor other foods.
The Ten Precepts ( Pali: dasasila or samanerasikkha ) refer to the precepts ( training rules ) for Buddhist samaneras ( novice monks ) and samaneris ( novice nuns ).
Buddhist monks, as they travelled around, brought sugar crystallization methods to China.
* 2007 – Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some called the Saffron Revolution.
Sangha ( Pali: सन ् घ ; Sanskrit: स ं घ ; Wylie: ' dus sde ) is a word in Pali and Sanskrit meaning " association ", " assembly ," " company " or " community " and most commonly refers in Buddhism to the monastic community of ordained Buddhist monks or nuns.
Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”
" Wong cites the " Sinew Metamorphosis " as being a qigong style that the Buddhist saint taught to the monks to strengthen their bodies.
However, turmeric is commonly used in Indian and Bangladeshi clothing, such as saris and Buddhist monks ' robes.
Meat dishes are also commonly part of the alms offered to Buddhist monks in Thailand as vegetarianism is not considered obligatory in Theravada Buddhism ; but having an animal killed specifically to feed Buddhist monks is prohibited.
Buddhist and meditating
A Buddhist monk meditating
In Chinese Buddhist iconography, Guanyin is often depicted as meditating or sitting alongside one of the Buddhas and usually accompanied by another bodhisattva.
The subject of Buddha meditating under the protection of Mucalinda is very common in Lao Buddhist art.
He has had a regular meditation practice since 1996 and began meditating with a trip to Tassajara, a Zen Buddhist monastery, before attending Stanford.
He moved about in India for a few years, with a Bengali novice Buddhist, the future Buddharakshita, as his companion, meditating and experiencing for himself the company of eminent spiritual personalities of the times, like Mata Anandamayi, Ramana Maharishi and Swamis of Ramakrishna Mission.
Most of the caves are used as the Buddhist viharas, meant for living, studying, and meditating.
Buddhist legend tells of Gautama Buddha attained enlightenment ( bodhi ) while meditating underneath the Bodhi tree, a Ficus religiosa.
The smells spread over to a nearby Buddhist monastery where monks were meditating.
Image: Anandabodhi2. jpg | Buddhist monks meditating under the Anandabodhi tree.
Buddhist and caves
The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art ( which depict the Jataka tales ) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka .< ref >
Following the example of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka, it is divided into three dong (, " caves ", " grottoes ").
* Buddhist monks begin to hew caves for their own use out of the stone plateaus in the region of south-central India known as the Deccan ( approximate date ).
* Buddhist caves are found at Ajanta ( India ) with stone carvings ( approximate date ).
The artificial caves revealed testimony of daily life of the Buddhist monks.
More than 30, 000 Buddhist statues from the time of this dynasty have been found in the caves.
The first Buddhist caves in the Dunhuang area were hewn in 353.
There are 735 caves in Mogao, and the caves in Mogao are particularly noted for their Buddhist art as well as the hoard of manuscripts, the Dunhuang manuscripts, found hidden in a sealed-up cave.
The caves may also be known as the Dunhuang Caves, however, this term also include other Buddhist cave sites in the Dunhuang area, such as the Western Thousand Buddha Caves, and the Yulin Caves farther away.
The caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning a period of 1, 000 years.
The first caves were dug out 366 AD as places of Buddhist meditation and worship.
These caves were elaborately painted, the cave paintings and architecture served as aids to meditation, as visual representations of the quest for enlightenment, as mnemonic devices, and as teaching tools to inform those illiterate about Buddhist beliefs and stories.
Wood is popular for small, votive Buddhist images that are often left in caves.
Many mostly wooden Lao Buddhist sculptures have been assembled inside the Pak Ou caves.
Buddhist carvings in the temples of Sanchi, Mathura and the Bhaja caves dating back between the 1st and 2nd century BC figure horsemen riding with elaborate saddles with feet slipped under girths.
Famous Attraction includes Mahabodhi Temple, a Buddhist shrine and UNESCO World Heritage Site is also situated in Bihar, Barabar Caves the oldest rockcut caves in India, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Library the oldest library of India.
During the period of the Mauryan and Gupta empires and their successors, several Buddhist architectural complexes, such as the caves of Ajanta and Ellora and the monumental Sanchi Stupa were built.
The island, located on an arm of the Arabian Sea, consists of two groups of caves — the first is a large group of five Hindu caves, the second, a smaller group of two Buddhist caves.
On the eastern part of the island, on the Stupa Hill, there is a small group of caves that house Buddhist monuments.
The 12 Buddhist ( caves 1 – 12 ), 17 Hindu ( caves 13 – 29 ) and 5 Jain ( caves 30 – 34 ) caves, built in proximity, demonstrate the religious harmony prevalent during this period of Indian history.
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