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  2. Mara (demon) - Wikipedia

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    Mara, [note 1] in Buddhism, is a malignant celestial Asura king who tried to stop Prince Siddhartha from Awakening by trying to seduce him with his celestial Army and a vision of beautiful women who, in various legends, are often said to be Mara's daughters.

  3. Mrtyu - Wikipedia

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    Mṛtyu, or Death, is often personified as the deities Mara (मर) and Yama (यम) in Dharmic religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism. Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology. Mṛtyu-māra as death in Buddhism or Māra, a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation.

  4. The Buddha - Wikipedia

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    ' the awakened one '), [4] [f] [g] was a wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia [h] during the 6th or 5th century BCE [5] [6] [7] [c] and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist legends, he was born in Lumbini, in what is now Nepal, [b] to royal parents of the Shakya clan, but renounced his home life to live as a ...

  5. Maravijaya Buddha - Wikipedia

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    Construction of the Buddha began on 14 June 2020, [6] and was announced in state-run newspapers in the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état. [7] The image's name Maravijaya, literally means "to conquer Mara (မာန်နတ်)."

  6. Shinigami - Wikipedia

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    In Buddhism, there is the Mara that is concerned with death, the Mrtyu-mara. [3] It is a demon that makes humans want to die, and it is said that upon being possessed by it, in a shock, one should suddenly want to die by suicide, so it is sometimes explained to be a "shinigami". [4]

  7. Creator in Buddhism - Wikipedia

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    Generally speaking, Buddhism is a religion that does not include the belief in a monotheistic creator deity. [1] [2] [3] ... The text also depicts Mara, an evil ...

  8. Maravijaya attitude - Wikipedia

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    Thoranee called tonnes of water and flooded away the maras. The episode results in the name Mara Vichai which means the "Victory (vichai) over the Mara". The Māravijaya seated Buddha is considered the common attitude for principal Buddha in ubosots of Khmer, Lao and Thai wats and Burmese kyaungs.

  9. Barua people - Wikipedia

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    Buddhist temple on Maheshkhali Island in Chittagong Division, Bangladesh. Barua (Bengali: বড়ুয়া, romanized: Boṛua; Rakhine: မရမာကြီး) is a Bengali-speaking Magh ethnic group [1] who lives in Chittagong Division in Bangladesh, West Bengal in India and Rakhine State in Myanmar, where they are known as the Maramagyi or Maramagri or particularly the Magh Barua. [2]