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The fourteenth season of the One Piece anime series was produced by Toei Animation, and directed by Hiroaki Miyamoto. The season began broadcasting in Japan on Fuji Television on June 27, 2010 and ended on September 25, 2011. The season focuses on Monkey D. Luffy as he tries to save his brother Portgas D. Ace.
Siddhartha Gautama, [e] most commonly referred to as the Buddha ('the awakened'), [f] [g] was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in the Indian subcontinent or South Asia (the Himalayan foothils of present-day Nepal and the eastern Ganges plain of northern India), during the 6th or 5th century BCE [4] [5] [6] [c] and founded Buddhism.
Koshōgatsu (in Japan) Lantern Festival (in China) Tết Nguyên Tiêu (in Vietnam)[3] Māgha Pūjā (also written as Makha Bucha Day) is a Buddhist festival celebrated on the full moon day of the third lunar month [7] in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka and on the full moon day of Tabaung in Myanmar. It is the second most important Buddhist ...
Udumbara (Buddhism) In Buddhism, udumbara (Pali, Sanskrit; lit. 'auspicious flower from heaven') refers to the tree, flower and fruit of the Ficus racemosa (syn. Ficus glomerata). [1][2][3] In Buddhist literature, this tree or its fruit may carry the connotation of rarity and parasitism. It is also mentioned in Vedic texts as the source of wood ...
Buddhahood is the state of an awakened being, who, having found the path of cessation of dukkha [4] ("suffering", as created by attachment to desires and distorted perception and thinking) is in the state of "no-more-Learning". [5][6][7] There is a broad spectrum of opinion on the nature of Buddhahood, its universality, and the method of ...
Kelly Hoffman, a mom who recently sent her son off for his freshman year of college, was heartbroken when the family bulldog started looking for her "missing" brother every day. Based on her ...
A key concept in Dzogchen is the 'basis', 'ground' or 'primordial state' (Tibetan: གཞི་ gzhi), also called the general ground (སྤྱི་གཞི་ spyi gzhi) or the original ground (གདོད་མའི་གཞི་ gdod ma'i gzhi). [4] The basis is the original state "before realization produced buddhas and nonrealization ...
Entering the stream (sotāpatti) is the first of the four stages of enlightenment. [4] The word sotāpanna literally means "one who entered (āpanna) the stream (sota); stream-enterer", after a metaphor which calls the noble eightfold path a stream which leads to a vast ocean, nibbāna. [5] A stream entrant is said to be free from possible ...