; Buddha Dordenma

The statue will house over one lakh ( one hundred thousand ) smaller Buddha statues, each of which, like the Buddha Dordenma itself, will be made of bronze and gilded in gold.

The statue alone is being built at a cost of US $ 47 million, by Aerosun Corporation of Nanjing, China, while the total cost of the Buddha Dordenma Project is well over US $ 100 million. The interior will accommodate 100, 000 8-inch-tall and 25, 000 12-inch-tall gilded Buddhas respectively.

Buddha Dordenma statue,

Buddha Dordenma under construction in November 2011

Buddha Dordenma is a gigantic Shakyamuni Buddha statue under construction in the mountains of Bhutan.

The statue will house over one lakh ( one hundred thousand ) smaller Buddha statues, each of which, like the Buddha Dordenma itself, will be made of bronze and gilded in gold.

The Buddha Dordenma is sited amidst the ruins of Kuensel Phodrang, the palace of Sherab Wangchuck, the thirteenth Desi Druk, overlooking the southern approach to Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan.

The statue alone is being built at a cost of US $ 47 million, by Aerosun Corporation of Nanjing, China, while the total cost of the Buddha Dordenma Project is well over US $ 100 million.

Names of sponsors will be displayed in the meditation hall which forms the throne of the Buddha Dordenma.

The park conserves 943. 4 acres of forest area that surrounds the Buddha Dordenma statue.

* Buddha Dordenma Image Foundation

Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.

Buddha's Birthday is celebrated in April ( here is pictured the Tian Tan Buddha in Hong Kong )

He is the subject of a special panegyric delivered by the Buddha just before the Buddha's Parinibbana ( the Mahaparinibbana Sutta ( DN 16 )); it is a panegyric for a man who is kindly, unselfish, popular, and thoughtful toward others.

Therefore, he is often called the disciple of the Buddha who " heard much ".

He is often depicted with the Buddha alongside Mahakashyapa, the first Indian patriarch.

* 1782 – The city of Rattanakosin, now known internationally as Bangkok, is founded on the eastern bank of the Chao Phraya River by King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke.

In this passage, a soldier asks the Buddha if it is true that, as he has been told, soldiers slain in battle are reborn in a heavenly realm.

The Buddha reluctantly replies that if he is killed in battle while his mind is seized with the intention to kill, he will undergo an unpleasant rebirth.

One example is the Kosala Samyutta, in which King Pasenadi, a righteous king favored by the Buddha, learns of an impending attack on his kingdom.

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.

While Maitreya ( Pāli: Metteya ) is mentioned in the Pāli canon, he is not referred to as a bodhisattva, but simply the next fully awakened Buddha to come into existence long after the current teachings of the Buddha are lost.

Buddhist philosophy is the elaboration and explanation of the delivered teachings of the Buddha as found in the Tripitaka and Agama.

The Buddha discouraged his followers from indulging in intellectual disputation for its own sake, which is fruitless, and distracting from true awakening.

The Buddha of the earliest Buddhists texts describes Dharma ( in the sense of " truth ") as " beyond reasoning " or " transcending logic ", in the sense that reasoning is a subjectively introduced aspect of the way unenlightened humans perceive things, and the conceptual framework which underpins their cognitive process, rather than a feature of things as they really are.

The Buddha held that attachment to the appearance of a permanent self in this world of change is the cause of suffering, and the main obstacle to liberation.

In the Mahayana Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Buddha insists that while pondering upon Dharma is vital, one must then relinquish fixation on words and letters, as these are utterly divorced from liberation and the Buddha-nature.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

Following his mother's example, Mao also became a practising Buddhist from an early age, venerating a bronze statue of the Buddha which was in their home, but abandoned this faith in his mid-teenage years.

Notably, a metre high bronze head of Buddha dated to the c750 AD and one of the oldest items a 2, 000 year old jade horse head from a burial, other sculptures include life size tomb guardians.

Along with his emissaries to the Yamato court, the Baekje king sent bronze images of Buddha, some Buddhist scriptures, and a letter praising Buddhism.

These examples are seen in present-day Nara and Kyoto, most notably a colossal bronze statue of the Buddha Vairocana in the Tōdai-ji temple.

The Ngong Ping Plateau features the Po Lin Monastery and its vegetarian restaurant, as well as the-high bronze Tian Tan Buddha ( or " Giant Buddha ") statue, once the world's largest seated outdoor bronze Buddha statue.

" The statue is an 83cm-high standing Buddha with palms facing forward, cast in bronze and covered in gold leaf.

Inside, the temple holds a massive bronze statue of Buddha.

These archaeological findings such as stone statue of Buddha discovered in Bukit Seguntang, Palembang, Avalokiteshvara from Bingin Jungut in Musi Rawas, bronze Maitreya statue of Komering, all discovered in South Sumatra.

Tian Tan Buddha, also known as the Big Buddha, is a large bronze statue of a Buddha Amoghasiddhi, completed in 1993, and located at Ngong Ping, Lantau Island, in Hong Kong.

It is surrounded by six smaller bronze statues known as " The Offering of the Six Devas " and are posed offering flowers, incense, lamp, ointment, fruit, and music to the Buddha.

The Buddha is tall, weighs, and was the world's tallest outdoor bronze seated Buddha prior to 2007.

In Sino-Japanese Buddhism, Vairocana was gradually superseded as an object of reverence by Amitabha Buddha, due in large part to the increasing popularity of Pure Land Buddhism, but Vairocana's legacy still remains in the Tōdai-ji temple with its massive bronze statue and in Shingon Buddhism, which holds a sizeable minority among Japanese Buddhists.