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The Buddha Preaching his First Sermon is a stone sculpture of the 5th-century CE showing Gautama Buddha in the "teaching posture" or dharmachakra pravartana mudrā. [2] The relief is 5' 3" tall, and was excavated at Sarnath, India by F. O. Oertel during the 1904–1905 excavation season of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI); it was found in an area to the south of the Dhamek Stupa.
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.
The Buddhist text Tittha Sutta, Udāna 6.4, Khuddaka Nikaya, [3] contains one of the earliest versions of the story. The Tittha Sutta is dated to around c. 500 BCE, during the lifetime of the Buddha. [4] Other versions of the parable describes sighted men encountering a large statue on a dark night, or some other large object while blindfolded.
Wat Phra Kaew (Thai: วัดพระแก้ว, RTGS:Wat Phra Kaeo, pronounced [wát.pʰráʔ.kɛ̂ːw] ⓘ), commonly known in English as the Temple of the Emerald Buddha and officially as Wat Phra Si Rattana Satsadaram, [ a ] is regarded as the most sacred Buddhist temple in Thailand. The complex consists of a number of buildings within ...
Some scholars believe the statue is mentioned in the somewhat controversial Ram Khamhaeng stele. In lines 23–27 of the first stone slab of the stele, "a gold Buddha image" is mentioned as being located "in the middle of Sukhothai City", interpreted as being a reference to the Wat Traimit Golden Buddha. [4] At some point, the statue was ...
Early depictions of Christ (left, Asia Minor, Roman period), and the Buddha (Greco-Buddhist art of Gandhara). Suggestions have been made that Buddhism may have influenced early Christianity. [1] Buddhist missionaries, sent by Emperor Ashoka of India to Sri Lanka, Syria, Egypt and Greece, may have helped prepare for the ethics of Christ.
A Christian depiction of Josaphat, 12th century manuscript. Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, [1] who historically lived several centuries before Jesus (and thus before Christianity). Their story tells of the conversion of Josaphat to ...
Religion portal. In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "the lord who looks down", [1] IPA: / ˌʌvəloʊkɪˈteɪʃvərə / [2]), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig (in Tibetan), is a tenth-level bodhisattva associated with great compassion (mahakaruṇā). He is often associated with Amitabha Buddha. [3]