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Manuscript painting depicting the Buddha miraculously making duplicates of himself at the Miracle at Savatthi. The miracles of Gautama Buddha refers to supernatural feats and abilities attributed to Gautama Buddha by the Buddhist scriptures. The feats are mostly attributed to supranormal powers gained through meditation, rather than divine ...
Dharmacakra, symbol of the Dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment. Buddhism (Pali and Sanskrit: बौद्ध धर्म Buddha Dharma) is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, "the awakened one".
The fourth Buddha, Dīpankara, is especially important, as he was the Buddha who gave niyatha vivarana (prediction of future Buddhahood) to the Brahmin youth who would in the distant future become the bodhisattva Gautama Buddha. [98] After Dīpankara, 25 more noble people (ariya-puggala) would attain enlightenment before Gautama, the historical ...
Richard G. Salomon, in his study of the Gandhāran Buddhist texts (which are the earliest manuscripts containing discourses attributed to Gautama Buddha), has confirmed that their teachings are "consistent with non-Mahayana Buddhism, which survives today in the Theravada school of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia, but which in ancient times was ...
A common list of good karmas taught by the Buddha is the list of ten courses of action as outlined in MN 41 Saleyyaka Sutta (and its Chinese parallel in SĀ 1042). [389] [390] Good karma is also termed merit , and the Buddha outlines three bases of meritorious actions: giving, moral discipline and meditation (as seen in AN 8:36).
Pippali later met the Buddha, under whom he was ordained as a monk, named Kāśyapa, [45] but later called Mahākāśyapa to distinguish him from other disciples. [46] Mahākāśyapa became an important disciple of the Buddha, to the extent that the Buddha exchanged his robe with him, which was a symbol of the transmittance of the Buddhist ...
Regarding the Buddha Gautama, his limited "human" life on earth was merely an illusion, a docetic mirage which merely appears to perform human actions such as eating and so on. [50] Another important feature of Mahāyāna Buddhist myths is that they include Buddhas other than Gautama Buddha, such as Amitābha , Bhaisajyaguru , Vairocana and ...
Birth of the Buddha, Lorian Tangai, Gandhara.The Buddha is shown twice: being received by Indra, and then standing up immediately after. The iconography of the events reflects the elaborated versions of the Buddha's life story that had become established from about 100 AD in Gandharan art and elsewhere, such as Sanchi and Barhut, and were given detailed depictions in cycles of scenes ...