Posted in Buddhism History on January 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
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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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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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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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 [...]
Posted in Buddhism History on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
According to the Buddhist traditional records, the historical Buddha Siddharta Gautama at the age of 35, while meditating under a fig tree, now known as the Bodhi tree, he attained Enlightenment. He was then known as Gautama Buddha, or simply “The Buddha”, which means “the enlightened one”.
Buddha then endeavored to share [...]
