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Princess Yaśodharā was the wife of Siddhartha who later became Gautama Buddha.She was the daughter of Koliya king Suppabuddha and Queen Amitha. Siddhartha and Yaśodharā were first cousins.Yaśodharā's father was the brother of Queen Maya and Mahapajapati Gotami while Her mother Amitha was the sister of King Suddhodana. Yaśodharā was ...
Amitābha [2] (Sanskrit pronunciation: [ɐmɪˈtaːbʱɐ]), also known as Amita Buddha (Chinese: 阿彌陀佛; pinyin: Ēmítuó fó) or Amida Buddha (Japanese: 阿弥陀如来 あみだにょらい, Hepburn: Amida nyorai), is the principal Buddha of Pure Land Buddhism.
Before He Was Buddha: The Life of Siddhartha, by Hammalawa Saddhatissa; Buddha, a manga series that ran from 1972 to 1983 by Osamu Tezuka; Siddhartha novel by Hermann Hesse, written in German in 1922; Lord of Light, a novel by Roger Zelazny depicts a man in a far future Earth Colony who takes on the name and teachings of the Buddha
Yaśodharā or Yashodhara (Pali: Yasodharā, Sanskrit: यशोधरा, romanized: Yaśodharā, originally known as Bhaddakaccānā or Bhadrakātyāyani was the wife of Prince Siddhartha (until he left his home to become a śramaṇa), the mother of Rāhula, and the niece of Mahaprajapati Gautami.
One day, when Prince Siddhartha's father took his young son out into a village area for a ploughing festival, his nurses left the would-be Buddha alone under a tree.. During the festival, the young prince noticed various sights of suffering, such as laboring men and oxen, and worms and insects being exposed by the ploughing and eaten by
Each male Buddha is paired with a female Buddha, often called mothers, prajña, vidya, or consort. Together, each family also presides over their own pure land or buddhafield. Although all five families abide in pure lands, it appears that only Sukhavati of Amitābha , and to a much lesser extent Abhirati of Akshobhya , where great masters like ...
Asita or Kaladevala or Kanhasiri was a hermit ascetic depicted in Buddhist sources as having lived in ancient India.He was a teacher and advisor of Suddhodana, a sage and seer, the father of the Buddha, and is best known for having predicted that prince Siddhartha of Kapilavastu would either become a great chakravartin or become a supreme religious leader; Siddhartha was later known as Gautama ...
The Buddha then describes the various buddhas of the six directions and how they also teach the same teaching on rebirth in Sukhāvatī in their own buddhalands. [1] Hence, the Buddha explains how an alternative title to this sutra is "Embraced by all Buddhas", since all Buddhas expound the teaching of faith in the pure land.