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.

After the death of the Buddha, attempts were made to gather his teachings and transmit them in a commonly agreed form, first orally, then also in writing ( the Tripiṭaka ).

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.

The most well-known example is Angulimala in the Theravadan Pali canon who had killed 999 people and then attempted to kill his own mother and the Buddha, but under the influence of the Buddha he repented and entered the monkhood.

The essay then goes on to explain first utilizing the term " God " for the American audience to get and initial understanding of what he means by " panenthesism ," and then discusses the terms that Buddhism uses in place of " God " such as Dharmakaya, Buddha, and Tathagata.

* 1498 – The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan ; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.

At the beginning of a public teaching, a lama will do prostrations to the throne on which he will teach due to its symbolism, or to an image of the Buddha behind that throne, then students will do prostrations to the lama after he is seated.

Butterfly then kneels before the statue of Buddha and prays to her ancestral gods.

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 rest of the sutra concerns the question and answer dialogue, and at the end, the demon is then convinced and becomes a follower of the Buddha.

The Lalitavistara Sutra ( a Mahayana Buddhist work ) recounts a contest including writing, arithmetic, wrestling and archery, in which the Buddha was pitted against the great mathematician Arjuna and showed off his numerical skills by citing the names of the powers of ten up to 1 ' tallakshana ', which equals 10 < sup > 53 </ sup >, but then going on to explain that this is just one of a series of counting systems that can be expanded geometrically.

He also made a visit to Polonnaruwa ( in what was then Ceylon ), where he had a religious experience while viewing enormous statues of the Buddha.

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Pure Land Buddhism emphasizes the role of Amitabha Buddha and promises that reciting the phrase " Namu Amida Butsu " upon death will result in being removed by Amitabha to the " Western Paradise " or " Pure Land ", and then to Nirvana.

The Shakyamuni Buddha then points out that she is suffering because she has lost one of hundreds of her own children, and asks her if she could imagine the suffering of those parents whose only child she has devoured.

The Buddha stated that if an individual were to pick a single mustard seed every hundred years from a seven-mile cube worth of mustard seeds, then by the time the last seed is picked, the age of the world cycle would still continue.

Upon entry into the Pure Land, the practitioner is then instructed by Amitābha Buddha and numerous bodhisattvas until full and complete enlightenment is reached.

* 528 BCE: Siddhartha attains Enlightenment in Buddha Gaya ( modern-day Bodhgaya ), then travels to a deer park in Sarnath ( near Varanasi ), India, and begins expounding the Dharma.

The Emerald Buddha remained in Chiang Mai until 1552, when it was taken to Luang Prabang, then the capital of the Lao kingdom of Lan Xang.

The Buddha then spent the succeeding seven weeks at seven different spots in the vicinity meditating and considering his experience.

The emperor then sent an envoy to Tianzhu ( Southern India ) to inquire about the teachings of the Buddha.

The Buddha explains that he does not answer certain questions because they have no bearing on the pursuit of nibanna, and he even goes so far as to say: " A ' position ', Vaccha, is something that a tathagatha a buddha has done away with.

Another Tibetan source explains that Buddha Amitabha gave to one of his two main disciples, Avalokiteśvara, the task to take upon himself the burden of caring for Tibet.

There are many places in which the Buddha explains his use of the word brahman.

The Buddhist scholar and commentator Buddhaghosa explains that each saying recorded in the collection was made on a different occasion in response to a unique situation that had arisen in the life of the Buddha and his monastic community.

From his very first discourse onwards, the Buddha explains the reality of things in terms of cause and effect.

In the Lotus Sutra ( sixth fascicle ) the Buddha explains that he has always and will always exist to lead beings to their salvation.

In this same sutra the Buddha explains that he proclaims all beings to have Buddha-nature ( which is used synonymously with " tathāgatagarbha " in this sutra ) in the sense that they will in the future become Buddhas.

The aggregates of form, feeling, perception, mental formations, and cognizance that comprise personal identity have been seen to be dukkha ( a burden ), and an enlightened individual is one with " burden dropped ".. The Buddha explains " that for which a monk has a latent tendency, by that is he reckoned, what he does not have a latent tendency for, by that is he not reckoned ..

The Buddha explains his similes of the father representing a compassionate Tathāgata who is like " a father to all the world ", and the sons representing humans who are " born into the threefold world, a burning house, rotten, and old.

An Indo-Chinese tradition also explains that Nagasena, also known as Menander's Buddhist teacher, created in 43 BCE in the city of Pataliputra a statue of the Buddha, the Emerald Buddha, which was later brought to Thailand.

Nichiren explains, however, that only belief in one ’ s inner Buddha nature can validate the benefit of the Gohonzon.

# Ambattha Sutta (): Ambattha the Brahmin is sent by his teacher to find whether the Buddha possesses the 32 bodily marks, but on arrival he is rude to the Buddha on grounds of descent ; the Buddha responds that he is actually higher born than Ambattha and that society treats aristocrats like himself as higher ranking than Brahmins, but that he considers those fulfilled in conduct and wisdom as higher, and he explains conduct and wisdom as above

# Sonadanta Sutta (): the Buddha asks Sonadanda the Brahmin what are the qualities that make a Brahmin ; Sonadanda gives five, but the Buddha asks if any can be omitted and beats him down to two, morality and wisdom, which he explains as above

# Mahali Sutta ( mahāli -): in reply to a question as to why a certain monk sees divine sights but does not hear divine sounds, the Buddha explains that it is because of the way he has directed his meditation ; he then reports the following sutta

# Potthapada Sutta (): asked about the cause of the arising of saññā, usually translated as perception, the Buddha says it is through training ; he explains the path as above up to the jhanas and the arising of their perceptions, and then continues with the first three formless attainments ; the sutta then moves on to other topics, the self and the unanswered questions

# Kevaddha Sutta ( or ) or Kevatta Sutta (): Kevaddha asks the Buddha why he does not gain disciples by working miracles ; the Buddha explains that people would simply dismiss this as magic and that the real miracle is the training of his followers

# Tevijja Sutta: asked about the path to union with Brahma, the Buddha explains it in terms of the path as above, but ending with the four brahmaviharas ; the abbreviated way the text is written out makes it unclear how much of the path comes before this ; Professor Gombrich has argued that the Buddha was meaning union with Brahma as synonymous with nirvana

# Lakkhana Sutta (): explains the actions of the Buddha in his previous lives leading to his 32 bodily marks ; thus it describes practices of a bodhisattva ( perhaps the earliest such description )

There is no knowledge of exactly when Izumo-taisha was built, but a record compiled around 950 ( Heian period ) describes the shrine as the highest building, reaching approximately 48 meters, which exceeds in height the 45 meter-tall temple that enshrined the Great Image of Buddha, Tōdai-ji.

), the precepts for laymen and laywomen followers of the Buddha are the same.

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.

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.

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 ).

Maintaining, in this matter, the attitude of a strict operationalist, the Buddha would speak only of the spiritual experience, not of the metaphysical entity presumed by the theologians of other religions, as also of later Buddhism, to be the object and ( since in contemplation the knower, the known and the knowledge are all one ) at the same time the subject and substance of that experience.

Reportedly, the Buddha reprimanded a disciple who thought that in the process of rebirth the same consciousness is reborn without change.

In response to the question from a man named Acela Kassapa as to whether or not suffering is self-caused, the Buddha gave a negative reply ; " A person acts and the same person experiences result — this, Kassapa, which you emphatically call ' suffering self-wrought ', amounts to the eternalist theory.

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That same night, the Prince saw the Buddha in his dream.

Responding to these two mistaken notions, in Section XXVIII of the Laṅkāvatāra Sūtra, Mahāmati asks Buddha, " Is not this Tathagata-garbha taught by the Blessed One the same as the ego-substance taught by the philosophers?

It can be more strictly defined as the ' Realized Sangha ' or ' Arya-Sangha ', in other words, practitioners and historical students of the Buddha who have fully realized the nature of their mind, also known as realized Boddhisatvas ; and ' Ordinary Sangha ', which can loosely mean practitioners and students of the Buddha who are using the same methods and working towards the same goal.

A well known Neo-Confucian motif is paintings of Confucius, Buddha, and Lao Tzu all drinking out of the same vinegar jar, paintings associated with the slogan " The three teachings are one!

It is the same state reached by the Buddha during his quest for Enlightenment.

The Shingon Buddhist monk, Dohan, regarded the two great Buddhas, Amida and Vairocana, as one and the same Dharmakaya Buddha and as the true nature at the core of all beings and phenomena.

In response to his request, the Buddha taught the first Kālachakra root tantra in Dhanyakataka ( Palden Drepung in Tibetan, near present day Amaravati ), a small town in Andhra Pradesh in southeastern India, supposedly bilocating ( appearing in two places at once ) at the same time as he was also delivering the Prajnaparamita sutras at Vulture Peak Mountain in Bihar.

This conception of the nature of the mind as being fundamentally the same as that of the Buddha, has been identified with the Mahāyāna doctrines of Buddha-nature and the Buddha's Dharmakāya, as well as compared favorably with doctrines in Mahāyāna sūtras such as the Lotus Sūtra and the.

Another characteristic of Demetrius is associated to the Buddha: they share the same protector deity.

Their coins, however, suggest a lack of artistic sophistication: the representations of their kings, such as Kanishka, tend to be crude ( lack of proportion, rough drawing ), and the image of the Buddha is an assemblage of a Hellenistic Buddha statue with feet grossly represented and spread apart in the same fashion as the Kushan king.