Even purified beings are led astray by passion

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Buddha Mudras

Mudras are a non-verbal mode of communication and self-expression, consisting of hand gestures and finger-postures. They are symbolic sign based finger patterns taking the place, but retaining the efficacy of the spoken word, and are used to evoke in the mind ideas symbolizing divine powers or the deities themselves. The composition [...]

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Place of Buddha’s Death, Mahaparinirvana

A small dusty town in the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh, Kushinagar is the place where Lord Gautam Buddha breathed his last. This is also the place where Lord Buddha preached his last sermon.

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There are many places of religious importance in Kushinagar. Rambhar Stupa is the most important landmark of [...]

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Place of First Sermon to First Disciples

Having attained Buddhahood, the supreme state of perfection, Buddha devoted the remainder of his precious life to serving humanity, both by example and precept, without any personal motive whatsoever. In order to deliver his first sermon the Buddha started for Benares.

(The place where his first five disciples greeted Buddha.)
At Benares [...]

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Place of Buddha’s Enlightenment

Early in the morning on the full moon day of Vesakha, as he was seated in deep meditation under the Bodhi Tree, unaided and unguided by any supernatural agency but solely relying on his own efforts, Siddattha Gotama attained bodhi_ by bodhi is meant an ideal state of intellectual and ethical [...]

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Birth Place of Buddha

The Buddha – Siddhartha Gautam was born into the Shakya royal family in Lumbini in south Nepal. Using historical records referring to Alexander the Great and Emperor Ashoka, the Buddha’s birth date is usually given as May 563 BC.
His mother, Queen Maya Devi was on her way to her parent’s home [...]

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