The beautiful, the satisfying part of his disintegration, however, was the masterly way the Buddha polished him off.

Ānanda was the first cousin of the Buddha by their fathers, and was devoted to him.

The Buddha sometimes asked him to substitute for him as teacher and then later stated that he himself would not have presented the teachings in any other way.

Because he attended the Buddha personally and often traveled with him, Ānanda overheard and memorized many of the discourses the Buddha delivered to various audiences.

While virtually all Nichiren Buddhist schools regard him as a reincarnation of the Lotus Sutra's Bodhisattva Superior Practices, Jōgyō Bosatsu ( 上行菩薩 ), some schools of Nichiren Buddhism's Nikkō lineages regard him as the actual Buddha of this age, or the Buddha of the Latter day of the Law.

His score for The Sheltering Sky ( 1990 ) later won him his second Golden Globe Award, and his score for Little Buddha ( 1993 ) received another Grammy Award nomination.

Some temples also display a small image of the baby Buddha in front of the altar in a small basin filled with water and decorated with flowers, allowing devotees to pour water over the statue ; it is symbolic of the cleansing of a practitioner's bad karma, and to reenact the events following the Buddha's birth, when devas and spirits made heavenly offerings to him.

Tradition ascribes to the Buddha himself instruction on how to pay him homage.

A favorite motif of Angkorean sculptors from approximately the 12th century A. D. onward was that of the Buddha, sitting in the position of meditation, his weight supported by the coils of a multi-headed naga that also uses its flared hood to shield him from above.

The emperor presented him with 700 measures of silver objects and bestowed the title of ' Precious Religious King, Great Loving One of the West, Mighty Buddha of Peace '.

A legend has it that on the day Buddha was born, nine dragons poured Amrita over him ; ama-cha is substituted for Amrita in Japan.

The Alavaka Sutta ( SN 10. 12 ) of the Pali Canon details a story where the Buddha was harassed by a Rakshasa, who asked him to leave and then come back over and over.

The Buddha refused to leave, whereby the Rakshasa threatened to harm him if he could not answer his questions.

A few years later the acclaimed French baritone Victor Maurel persuaded him to turn his cantata The Light of Asia, based on the life of Buddha, into an Italian opera, La luce dell ' Asia, which was produced at Covent Garden in 1892.

Nichiren Shōshū's belief of Nichiren Daishonin being the True Buddha is its reason for referring to him as Nichiren Daishōnin (" Great Sage Nichiren ").

Statements from modern Theravadins that the Buddha was " just a human " are often intended to contrast their view of him with that of the Mahayana, and with Christian views of Jesus.

When asked whether he was a deva or a human, he replied that he had eliminated the deep-rooted unconscious traits that would make him either one, and should instead be called a Buddha ; one who had grown up in the world but had now gone beyond it, as a lotus grows from the water but blossoms above it, unsoiled.

The word Daishonin is an honorific title meaning " Great Sage ", as SGI practitioners believe him to be the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law.

The Mahavamshatika connects him with the Shakya clan of the Buddha, a clan which also belongs to the race of Ādityas.

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.

These scholars understand the term to refer to schools of Buddhism that did not accept the teachings of the Mahayana Sutras as authentic teachings of the Buddha.

In the Mahayana Buddhist tradition, it is believed that the drawing was designed by the Buddha himself in order to help ordinary people understand the Buddhist teachings.

By chanting mantras, maintaining mudras, or practicing certain forms of meditation, Tendai maintains that one is able to understand sense experiences as taught by the Buddha, have faith that one is innately an enlightened being, and that one can attain enlightenment within the current lifetime.

Buddhi is a feminine Sanskrit noun derived from the same root as the more familiar masculine form Buddha (< budh-to be awake, to understand, to know ).

Why the illusory mental defilements should be imagined by the deluded mind is stated to be a mystery that only a Buddha can understand.

They showed scenes from the life of the Buddha integrated with everyday events that would be familiar to the onlookers and so make it easier for them to understand the Buddhist creed as relevant to their lives.

The reason given for the late disclosure of the Mahāyāna teachings is that most people were initially unable to understand the Mahāyāna sutras at the time of the Buddha ( 500 BCE ) and suitable recipients for these teachings had still to arise amongst humankind.

The sutra's teachings purport to be of a higher order than those contained in the āgamas of the Sūtra Piṭaka, and that humanity had been unable to understand the sutra at the time of the Buddha, and thus the teaching had to be held back.

: I take refuge in the Buddha, wishing for all sentient beings to understand the great Way profoundly and make the greatest resolve.

So far as I have been able to understand, after he met Buddha once, he never again met the Buddha or any other monk of the Buddhist order, neither did he discuss about the religion with any of them ; and nor did he make any financial donation to the Buddhist order in life-time of the Buddha.

: 自皈依佛 ， 當願眾生 ， 體解大道 ， 發無上心 。 ( I take refuge in the Buddha, wishing for all sentient beings to understand the great way and make the greatest vow.

In consequence, Abe came to understand Amida Buddha as a sacred fiction.

Medieval Japan at first had a similar union between " imperial law " and universal or " Buddha law ", but these later became independent sources of power.

In Shingon, Mahavairocana Tathagata ( Dainichi Nyorai 大日如來 ) is the universal or Primordial Buddha that is the basis of all phenomena, present in each and all of them, and not existing independently or externally to them.

It is not a method ; it is like the way of the universe, a universal law that we must follow if we want to get back to the Origin, back to our true Self, back to the Kingdom of God or our Buddha nature.

The Tibetan monk-scholar Dolpopa of the Tibetan Jonang tradition speaks of a universal spiritual essence or noumenon ( the Buddha as Dharmakaya ) which contains all sentient beings in their totality, and quotes from the Sutra on the Inconceivable Mysteries of the One-Gone-Thus:

Similar God-like descriptions are encountered in the All-Creating King Tantra ( Kunjed Gyalpo Tantra ), where the universal Mind of Awakening ( in its mode as " Samantabhadra Buddha ") declares of itself:

He continued his pursuit for social reform, transformation and universal peace, with his 10 Natakams ( plays ) and 15 Natikas, which include Bhayam (" Fear "), Viswa Santi (" Universal Peace "), Kappalu (" Frogs "), Goutama Buddha, Ashoka Samrat, Parivartanam, Edureeta and Tirupathi.

They refer to this life force as the Eternal Buddha, teaching that it is omnipresent and universal.

It could be concluded from an emanationism point of view, that all actions and creations by a deity are simply flows of divine energy ( the flowing Tao in conjunction with qi is often seen as a river ; Dharma ( Buddhism ) the law of nature discovered by Buddha has no beginning or end.

Shōmu declared himself the " Servant of the Three Treasures " of Buddhism: the Buddha, the law or teachings of Buddhism, and the Buddhist community.

However, followers of Nichiren Buddhism consider Myōhō Renge Kyō to be the name of the ultimate law permeating the universe, and the human being is at one, fundamentally with this Law and can manifest realization, or Buddha Wisdom ( attain Buddhahood ), through Buddhist Practice.

** Myōhō ( 妙法 ) meaning ' supreme ( marvelous ) law of Buddha ',

Nevertheless, the Buddha preached that < nowiki ></ nowiki > Imose was a place to be avoided and the priests of the law entered this Way as an outlet for their feelings, since their hearts were, after all, made of neither stone nor wood.

In 743, Emperor Shōmu issued a law in which he stated that the people should become directly involved with the establishment of new Buddha temples throughout Japan.

The Gandhara school is credited with the first representations of the Buddha in human form, rather symbolically as the wheel of the law, the tree, etc.