Tongdosa (' Salvation of the world through mastery of truth ') is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism and in the southern part of Mt.

Tongdosa is one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea and represents the Buddha ; ( Haeinsa, also located in Gyeongsangnam-do, represents the dharma or Buddhist teachings ; and Songgwangsa in Jeollanam-do represents the sangha or Buddhist community.

Tongdosa is famous because there are no statues outside of the main ( Sakyamuni ) Buddha at the temple because the " real shrines of the Sakyamuni Buddha " ( relics ) are preserved at Tongdosa.

Tongdosa is reputeded to house several relics of the Sakyamuni Buddha himself, including a robe, a begging bowl, and a bone from his skull, all relics that Jajang brought back from the travels to China he undertook in 636 to study with ten other monks there.

In the mid 15th century at the height of its prosperity, Tongdosa is said to have had hundreds of buildings and thousands of monks.

Korea's largest temple, Tongdosa is often called " The temple without a Buddha " because it contains no outdoor statues of the Buddha, rather it is arranged around several stupas which contain Jajang's relics of the historical Buddha.

Tongdosa is one of five temples in Korea, known as Jeokmyeolbogung, which enshrine the relics of the Buddha that Jajang returned from China.

He is credited with founding the temple of Tongdosa in 646 CE, near in what is now Busan, South Korea, and played a significant role in the adoption of Buddhism as the national religion of Silla.

Jajang established many temples but Tongdosa, one of the Three Jewel Temples of Korea, is considered the most important.

Tongdosa in South Gyeongsang Province represents the Buddha ; Haeinsa, also in South Gyeongsang Province, represents the dharma or Buddhist teachings ; and Songgwangsa in South Jeolla Province represents the sangha or Buddhist community.

Thus, the main hall in Tongdosa opens out onto a stupa which the faithful claim contains relics of the Buddha ; Haeinsa has two large buildings holding the Tripitaka Koreana ; and Songgwangsa has several prominent buildings dedicated to its monastic community ( including the numerous Seon ( Zen ) masters the temple has produced ).

In Korea, a crane dance has been performed in the courtyard of the Tongdosa Temple since the Silla Dynasty ( 646 CE ).

* Crane Dance at the Tongdosa Temple ( archive link, was dead )

* Asian Historical Architecture: Tongdosa Temple

Only in buildings of importance like palaces or sometimes temples ( Tongdosa, for instance ) were the multicluster brackets still used.

* Buddhist Art Painting by Tongdosa Bulhwaban

Daeungjeon Hall and stairs of Tongdosa temple, Yangsan

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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.

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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.

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

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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.