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The Buddha is reported to have allowed women into the sangha only with great reluctance, predicting that the move would lead to Buddhism's collapse after 500 years, rather than the 1, 000 years it would have enjoyed otherwise ( this prophecy occurs only once in the Canon and is the only prophecy involving time in the Canon, leading some to suspect that it is a late addition.
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Buddha and is
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.
Buddha and reported
Buddhist doctrines are reported to have reached as far as Balkh even during the life of the Buddha ( 563 BC to 483 BC ), as recorded by Husang Tsang.
The Buddha is reported to have said, " It is possible to travel the whole world in search of one who is more worthy of compassion than oneself.
Two individuals representing prospective buyers examined and tested the metal in the Buddha, Roxas said, and reported it was made of solid, 20-carat gold.
The Buddha is reported on numerous occasions in the Pali Canon as referring to himself as the Tathagata instead of using the pronouns me, I or myself.
The Buddha praised the Chief Disciples and blamed Devadatta saying that he was doomed to the Niraya Hell for his deeds, and it is reported that shortly thereafter he did in fact fall into Hell.
Lord Buddha, it is reported, stayed and meditated near this lake on several occasions.
Legend states that Buddha, on his last Journey, is reported to have spent a memorable night at Kesaria.
Buddha and have
`` Thou mayst have supernatural powers '', exclaimed Yang Shan, `` yet thou must give back the Spirit of Buddha to me ''.
According to the Buddha every Buddha in the past and to come will have two chief disciples and one attendant during his ministry.
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.
These messengers have included Moses, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, and others.
Certain basic teachings appear in many places throughout the early texts, so most scholars conclude that the Buddha must at least have taught these teachings:
The Buddha acknowledged that there is both happiness and sorrow in the world, but he taught that even when we have some kind of happiness, it is not permanent ; it is subject to change.
Dharma refers not only to the sayings of the Buddha, but also to the later traditions of interpretation and addition that the various schools of Buddhism have developed to help explain and to expand upon the Buddha's teachings.
The Buddha acknowledged that there is both happiness and sorrow in the world, but he taught that even when we have some kind of happiness, it is not permanent ; it is subject to change.
Contemporary harmonicists Howard Levy, Jason Ricci, Carlos del Junco and the late Chris " Buddha " Michalek have pushed the envelope of the instrument.
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.
Along with Amitabha Buddha and the bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta, She temporarily liberates beings out of the Wheel of Samsara into the Pure Land, where they will have the chance to accrue the necessary merit so as to be a Buddha in one lifetime.
Historians also note that Mani declared himself to be an " apostle of Jesus Christ " Also Manichaean tradition also is noted to have claimed that Mani was the reincarnation of different religious figures from Buddha, Lord Krishna, Zoroaster, and Jesus.
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.
Nichiren Buddhism is based on the Lotus Sutra, which teaches that all people have an innate Buddha nature and are therefore inherently capable of attaining enlightenment in their current form and present lifetime.
This word has two levels of meaning: ( 1 ) on the ideal ( arya ) level, it denotes all of the Buddha ’ s followers, lay or ordained, who have at least attained the level of srotapanna ; ( 2 ) on the conventional ( samvtri ) level, it denotes the orders of the Bhiksus and Bhiksunis ”
It is interesting to note that this was one of the few issues about which the Buddha is recorded to have changed his mind.
The person from whom one hears the teaching should have heard it as one link in a succession of listeners going back to the original speaker: the Buddha in the case of a sutra or the author in the case of a book.
Most have rectangular spaces with rounded arch ceilings often divided into four sections, each with a mural of Buddha.
The tradition derives from tales which associate a white elephant with the birth of the Buddha, as his mother was reputed to have dreamed of a white elephant presenting her with a lotus flower, a common symbol of wisdom and purity, on the eve of giving birth.
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