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3 days ago · Chapter 12: Devadatta. The Buddha tells a story about how in a previous life he was a king who became the slave of a rishi just so he could hear the Lotus Sūtra. This rishi was none other than Devadatta, who is destined for Buddhahood in the future as the Buddha Devarāja. [44]
4 days ago · With a Mongolian father and a Tibetan mother, Tsongkhapa was born into a nomadic family in the walled city of Tsongkha in Amdo, Tibet (present-day Haidong and Xining, Qinghai) in 1357. [3][4] Tsongkhapa was educated in Buddhism from an early age by his first teacher, the Kadam monk Choje Dondrub Rinchen. Tsongkhapa became a novice monk at the ...
3 days ago · “In those days Devadatta was the hunter, Sariputra was the famous teacher, Ananda was Jollikin, the noble Lady Gotami (foster mother of Buddha, sister of deceased birth mother Mahamaya , queen of Kapilavastu & now a nun) was the mother, and I was the monkey Jolly.”
2 days ago · For Jain temples, see Jain temple. For the 1937 film, see Mandir (film). A Hindu temple, also known as Mandir, Devasthanam, Pura, or Koil, is a sacred place where Hindus worship and show their devotion to deities through worship, sacrifice, and prayers.
5 days ago · Jasudho September 26, 2024, 1:56am 6. Misconceptions include: That Gotama was the one who saw the Four Signs: the old person, the ill person, the dead person, and the mendicant. That his given name was Siddhartha. 1 Like. WayChuang September 26, 2024, 2:08am 7. Jasudho:
4 days ago · Abstract The Iranian flavour of the Chinese epithet of the Buddha, tianzhong tian 天中天, ‘god among gods,’ and its relationship with the Indo-Aryan parallel devātideva-, ‘foremost god of gods,’ have been repeatedly addressed. Past studies of the origin of the expressions sought to establish an ultimate connection to the Achaemenid royal title ‘king of kings’ (Old Persian xšāyaθiya- xšāyaθiyānām), assuming that the divine epithet was coined based on the royal one ...
1 day ago · On Reprimanding the Great Bodhisattva Hachiman (3) 諌暁八幡抄 三. And Great Bodhisattva Hachiman, in failing to strip them of the robe, is committing a fault of the utmost gravity. This Great Bodhisattva was present in the assembly when the Lotus Sutra was preached and at that time pledged to protect the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra.
