In it was a stone Tibetan Buddha I had picked up in Bombay, and occasionally, to make merit, my wife and I garlanded it with flowers or laid a few pennies in its lap.

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

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect, and there was even a theory about Laozi, founder of Taoism, who went to India and taught his philosophy to Buddha.

He was later dedicated to the propagation of Buddhism across Asia and established monuments marking several significant sites in the life of Gautama Buddha.

Ānanda was one of the principal disciples and a devout attendant of the Buddha.

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

At the First Buddhist Council, convened shortly after the Buddha died, Ananda was called upon to recite many of the discourses that later became the Sutta Pitaka of the Pāli Canon.

Despite his long association with and close proximity to the Buddha, Ananda was only a stream-winner prior to the Buddha ’ s death.

However, Buddha said that the purity of his heart was so great that, " Should Ananda die without being fully liberated ; he would be king of the gods seven times because of the purity of his heart, or be king of the Indian subcontinent seven times.

Gautama Buddha or Siddhārtha Gautama Buddha ( Sanskrit: स ि द ् ध ा र ् थ ग ौ तम ब ु द ् ध ; Pali: Siddhattha Gotama ) was a spiritual teacher from the Indian subcontinent,

In early Indian Buddhism, for example, the term bodhisattva was primarily used to refer specifically to the Buddha Shakyamuni in his former lives.

The term " bodhisatta " ( Pāli language ) was used by the Buddha in the Pāli canon to refer to himself both in his previous lives and as a young man in his current life, prior to his enlightenment, in the period during which he was working towards his own liberation.

According to the Theravāda teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi the bodhisattva path was not taught by Buddha.

According to the traditional accounts, Gautama, the future Buddha, was a prince who grew up in an environment of luxury and opulence.

The central sanctuary of an Angkorian temple was home to the temple's primary deity, the one to whom the site was dedicated: typically Shiva or Vishnu in the case of a Hindu temple, Buddha or a bodhisattva in the case of a Buddhist temple.

Mucalinda, the nāga king who shielded Gautama Buddha | Buddha as he sat in meditation, was a favorite motif for Cambodian Buddhist sculptors from the 11th century.

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect, and there was even a theory about Laozi, founder of Taoism, who went to India and taught his philosophy to Buddha.

Buddha explained the issue by saying " all fear death ; comparing others with oneself, one should neither kill nor cause to kill ".

In the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra, the Buddha takes a strong stand against the idea that there is no Self, saying:

The Buddha appealed to experience in his refutation of natthikavāda, saying: " To one who sees, with proper understanding, the arising of the things in the world, the belief in nonexistence would not occur.

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.

In the Mahaparinibbana Sutta ( DN 16 ) the Buddha is quoted as saying:

To behold the Buddha-nature within oneself, a common saying of the Chan school, as seen for example, in the phrase ' seeing one's nature, becoming Buddha ' 見性成佛.

A Buddha in the gardens of the Museum In 1904, some leading citizens of Bombay decided to provide a museum to commemorate the visit of the Prince of Wales, the future King George V. On June 22, 1904, the committee passed a resolution saying, " The building should have a handsome and noble structure befitting the site selected, and in keeping with the best style of local architecture ".

In 1965, Bhutto's friend Munir Ahmad Khan had notified the status of Indian nuclear programme and an ambitious intention to build a nuclear weapon, which it did in 1974 ( see Operation Smiling Buddha ), Bhutto, in 1965, reportedly saying, unofficially:

In a number of major Mahayana sutras ( e. g. the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, the Tathagatagarbha Sutra, the Srimala Sutra, among others ), the Buddha is presented as clarifying this teaching by saying that, while the skandhas ( constituents of the ordinary body and mind ) are not the self, there does truly exist an eternal, unchanging, blissful Buddha-essence in all sentient beings, which is the uncreated and deathless Buddha-nature (" Buddha-dhatu ") or " True Self " of the Buddha himself.

Before his death Ippen burnt all his writings, saying that " they have all become namuamidabutsu ( devotion to Amida Buddha )", but copies were kept by some of his disciples.

There is a local saying: " The mountain is a Buddha and the Buddha is a mountain ".

After the meal, Rāhula followed the Buddha, saying " Give me my inheritance.

The Buddha refused to make any of these compulsory, however, and Devadatta went round blaming him, saying that he was living in abundance and luxury.

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.

Gautama Bodhisattva is quoted as saying a person starts the journey to become a Buddha filling 10 Paramita or " perfections ".

In the Pali Canon a paragraph appears many times recording the Buddha describing how he began his quest for enlightenment, saying:

The Buddha seems to be saying here that the universe expands outward, reaches a stabilising point, and then reverts its motion back toward a central point resulting in its destruction, this process again to be repeated infinitely.

When his weight gain begins to show, Lois notes this, saying he is " getting a little Buddha belly ".

Although both Buddhists and Jains had orders of nuns, Buddhist Pali texts record the Buddha saying that a woman has the ability to obtain Nirvana in the Buddha Dhamma and Vinaya.

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.

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.